Character Education is the wider personal development of children beyond the National Curriculum. Character Education aims to instil in all children a number of key characteristics and values such as resilience, honesty, motivation and humility, all of which will help them in their adult lives. At Brackenwood Infant School we know that in order for children to flourish, they need to be provided with regular opportunities to understand and experience ways to develop their character. These opportunities are successfully interwoven in our curriculum and taught discretely using our Command Joe’s resource.

SMSC stands for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development. It is an area of the curriculum that focuses on the non-academic development of children, such as the understanding and appreciation of different cultures or dealing with moral conundrums. At Brackenwood Infant School we teach SMSC through our PSHE lessons, purposefully planned opportunities within the curriculum and incidental opportunities that occur in children’s day to day lives.

At Brackenwood Infant School we promote Equality and Diversity in all areas of our life and work. At our school we raise awareness of all strands of diversity, discuss with our children how to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and foster good relations. We prepare our children to become positive global citizens and to appreciate and celebrate the diverse society in which we live through discrete opportunities such as Equality and Diversity week and carefully planned links within our curriculum.