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report: Developing a whole school policy for the spiritual, moral, social and dultural development of pupils
A SCHOOL BASED ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT AT ST MARY REDCLIFFE AND TEMPLE SCHOOL (1997/8)
This school based action research project was initiated by the Foundation Governors of St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, who identified a development area related to their particular brief to ensure that the school's aims and purposes are shaped by and consistent with the principles and practice of the Church of England, and to monitor and evaluate those aims and purposes. The question that arose was how and in what ways is this school distinctive and how can that distinctiveness be monitored and evaluated?
The school was in the process of reviewing its pastoral and faculty structure and the role of PSE within the curriculum. Personnel from this project overlapped with the senior management team which was responsible for this review and it was anticipated that the two strands of development will be mutually informative.
In addition to this school based issue, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (formerly the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority) had been undertaking a national consultation on values in education and the community. This work had resulted in the production of a statement of values, attitudes and behaviours which had the authority of national consensus, and provided a starting point for discussion for schools.
QCA had produced draft guidance for schools in developing whole school policies for the promotion of pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. This guidance was developed in a pilot phase beginning in January 1998. Two hundred schools received the guidance 'cold'; fifty schools received the guidance with support from LEAs and the QCA.
This project is an independent 'in-depth' case study which worked with close reference to the QCA guidance and which contributed to the process both in terms of its findings and the eventual case study report. The QCA pilot phase lasted for two years and the outcomes of the pilot study informed the final production of guidance for schools as part of the review of the National Curriculum.
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