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I met June Auton, the President of the Human Values Foundation, at the NEC Education Show, where she introduced me to the Education in Human Values programme. I read the manual and lesson plans and felt this was written for me. I began to utilise some of the ideas from the Education in Human Values programme in school for the Nurture group. This was set up after an Ofsted report, which culminated with a "serious weaknesses label" to help children with social and behavioural difficulties, which prevented them from achieving their potential in a 'normal' classroom setting. Later I was fortunate enough to be asked to teach a Year 5 class at Waterside Community Junior School in Staffordshire. (I had been working there since 1997 in various support roles). This I agreed to do with the support of another great teacher who shared my interest in values education. The class took to the Education in Human Values programme straight away and we began our work together. Our class motto was, "Be the best person that you can be!" There was such a positive change in their attitudes to work, to each other and to the wider community, that from then onwards, I decided to try to involve the whole school in Education in Human Values. The next step taken was in my role as Cover Teacher and during the following year, I was able to teach the Education in Human Values programme to all of the classes in school on one day a week, whilst the Deputy Head delivered an assembly each week. This was also supported through the creation of the 'Playground Buddies Scheme' which involved many of the children from my previous Year 5 class. We made great strides promoting good behaviour, throughout the next two years. Following on from this accolade, the Headteacher, myself and one other teacher, who was also leading a new project in school called ‘Building Learning Power’, were asked to attend a conference in our county headquarters to show one hundred and forty advisers how it had all been achieved! We took eight children to the conference, who did us proud by telling all of those grown-ups just how great all the children were. Two of the children from Year 4 who were only eight years old, led the whole conference in a ‘Silent Sitting’. which is an important part of the programme. WOW! It was great! During the lunch that followed, the advisers were keen to sit and listen to our children give their account of our school. The Small Schools Adviser for Staffordshire, later approached me about presenting the Education in Human Values programme to the Small Schools Conference on July 5th 2005 and agreed to pay Waterside Community Junior School to cover my absence. I readily agreed and gave a one hour presentation. Since my presentation, all thirteen cluster Headteachers who attended (covering between two and six other schools) committed to using the Education in Human Values programme. Josie Suggate. |
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Waterside Community Junior School has achieved great success after introducing the Education in Human Values programme. |
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“I am keen and willing to continue to support The Human Values Foundation in changing the lives of many families and communities wherever this takes me, and proud to be a part of this movement towards a better world for all.” Josie Suggate Teacher at: |
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Waterside Community Junior school is featured in the “Introduction to the Education in Human Values programme.”
The film contains an interview with Joise Suggate and the Headteacher, Ms Lucas.
To watch the film on-line, |
