Values Team

The Values Team is about:

• Learning to work together
• Learning about democracy
• Learning how to play a positive role in our community
• Asking God to help in the decisions made in our school​

It needs to get everyone:

• Finding things they want to change
• Coming up with ways to make them better
• Putting those ideas in to action
• Seeing what works (evaluating)

• Say a prayer
• We share what we’re going to talk about before the meeting, so everyone has time to think and share it with their class.
• A Chairperson runs the meeting, a child from an upper key stage 2 class, (with help from the teacher if they need it).
• A secretary takes notes each time, a child from an upper key stage 2 class, (with help from the teacher if they need it)

When you discuss an idea in their class it will be:

• Noted down
• Passed to the next Values Team meeting
• The Values Team will give you an update within two week

• Make sure meetings happen when they are supposed to.
• Support pupils to run meetings.
• Sponsor an Action Team by checking that its idea is safe and being an occasional point of contact.
• The Headteacher will answer all the Value Team’s questions within one week.
• If the Headteacher has to say ‘no’ to anything, he will explain why.

Before meetings:

• ​Ensure there is time given for meetings
• Make sure this week’s question is up in your classroom at least a day before the meeting

During meetings:

• Initially model chairing (discuss what worked, what didn’t work)
• Slowly draw back your role
• Support quietly – a whisper in the ear
• Eventually, you want to just be a point of information

Before meetings:

• Ensure there is time given for meetings

During meetings:

• Initially model chairing (discuss what worked, what didn’t work). Slowly draw back your role
• Support quietly – a whisper in the ear
• Eventually, you want to just be a point of information.