SMSC stands for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.  Every school in England needs to be able to show progress in SMSC.  SMSC lessons take place weekly and Northlands use a resource called ‘Votes for Schools’ to promote and develop the pupils’ knowledge about spiritual, moral, social and cultural current affairs.

Votes for Schools was created to give all children a better knowledge of current affairs and get them voting!

As part of the weekly vote, Votes for Schools provides the class teacher with resources to open discussion, as a basis for informed decision making, directly meeting the needs of children.

According to Ofsted, fundamental British values are:

• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and those without faiths

Our pupils look forward to their SMSC lessons and enjoy feeling part of a democracy where their opinion counts.  Each year group will be participating in the delivery of an SMSC assembly to the whole school which will take place virtually during the Covid-19 restrictions. These are some of the things our children say: