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Emily Latham
Reception Teacher
A value is a principle that guides our behaviour and our thinking. Incorporating values into schools has many positive outcomes. Evidence shows that by instilling values into students throughout their time in education, schools can achieve multi-faceted development across areas such as intellectual, physical, spiritual and ethical learning. The values we encompass at Wellington are kindness, respect, courage, responsibility and integrity.
The Wellington values coincide greatly with our Early Years’ curriculum and can be evidenced in all the seven learning areas. They are, however, more present in our prime areas; ‘Communication and Language’, ‘Personal, Social and Emotional Development’and ‘Physical Development’. Here is how we have explored the values in Reception throughout the last couple of weeks:
KINDNESS
We have been reading the story of ‘The Rainbow Fish’ By Marcus Pfister. The children have enjoyed talking about ‘sharing’ and practising sharing with their friends. For our weekly craft, all children made a paper shell, decorated with colour and sparkles. They each gave their shell to a friend as an act of kindness. They felt very proud of themselves and have learnt how good ‘giving’ can feel. Keep sharing, Reception!
