Character Development at the heart of our 'Be World Ready' promise
At BSB, we know that our pupils grow up to be strong leaders 鈥� be it on the world stage or in their local communities. Through a broad range of challenging and exciting curricular and co-curricular character development opportunities, our pupils develop the confidence, compassion and courage necessary to ensure they lead as responsibly and intelligently as they do powerfully.
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Becoming Global Citizens
Our students learn to embrace difference and become principled in their beliefs.
The bedrock of our learning ethos
Building upon the groundbreaking work of Guy Claxton鈥檚 'Building Learning Power', we have developed our own bespoke set of Learning Habits that have become the bedrock of our outstanding learning culture.
By learning, applying and ultimately embodying the BSB Learning Habits from Nursery to Pre-University, our students develop supple, resilient minds which allow them to continuously improve as learners. They develop a strong sense of responsibility for 鈥� and genuine investment in 鈥� their personal and collective learning. Our students learn because they want to: they are curious, imaginative thinkers.
Happily, like any habit, learning habits are notoriously hard to break! Our pupils retain their love of learning long after they leave us at 18 years old. Quite simply, at BSB, we create life-long learners.
Superb care and support
Our PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) provision is outstanding (PENTA BSO Inspection, 2021). All pupils take part in weekly, expertly-tailored classes dedicated to pupils鈥� mental and physical wellbeing, and to the development of healthy social relationships.
The children are active agents in these classes: they learn to develop their voices and express their needs. As the children grow older, pupils learn about, and celebrate, the unique physical and psychological changes and challenges they will undergo on their path to adulthood. In this way, they enter each stage of their development prepared and supported by their teachers, and by each other.
Through the wider curriculum, pupils explore concepts such as collaboration, society, power, identity, resilience, and conflict-resolution as they develop their own healthy relationships and mindsets that ultimately lead to happiness and fulfilment.
Becoming more empathetic and understanding
All pupils, from Nursery to Pre-University, engage in weekly philosophy lessons. Regular engagement in philosophical debate is important for intellectual, social and emotional development. It develops critical thinking and reasoning skills, as well as the child's epistemological understanding.
Through philosophical discourse, children at 51黑料网 learn how disagree respectfully, and how-and-when to stand up for what is right. Equally, they question and explore their own beliefs and long-held opinions, ultimately developing their own views and ethical frameworks.
All of these skills and qualities are vital for leadership, harmony and collaboration. We know that we are growing leaders at BSB, through philosophy we ensure we are growing responsible leaders with a social conscience and an excellent understanding of a pluralist world. Ultimately, we are delivering on our promise to ensure they leave us 'World Ready'.
