The Fairfax Academy Respect Matters Week helped students learn about the importance of respecting themselves and each other through special events.
The school, in Fairfax Road, held a Respect Matters Week, encouraging pupils to reflect on being kind and supportive, and recognising bullying in all its forms.
Head of Academy Deborah Bunn said: “Lockdown not only had an effect on the academic side of school life, it also impacted on the social development of students across the UK. We wanted to address that at Fairfax with a series of events.
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“Respect Matters Week asked our students to reflect how we treat each other and opened up opportunities for them to discuss what respect is, as well as providing them with strategies to challenge people who they think are not being respectful.
“The students responded really well to the week’s events, which included an anti-bullying assembly for each year group and daily quotes which aimed to encourage them to think about being respectful.”
Other week-long events at the school have included ‘Tell Someone’, which aimed to give students the confidence to report issues, ‘Kindness Counts’, which focussed on courtesy and peer support, and ‘Safety First’, which addressed safe behaviour in school, in the community and online.
Respect Matters is part of Fairfax’s mission is to “enrich the lives and transform the futures” of every one of the acedemy’s pupils.
The school achieves this by ensuring pupils access a broad and wide-ranging curriculum while being supported in a structured, kind and caring environment.
Pupils have access to lots of extra-curricular opportunities, as part of Fairfax’s ethos of placing emphasis on their personal development.
The academy’s work is underpinned by five values:
Excellence: Striving for the highest quality to ensure excellent outcomes and personal achievements.
Dedication: Believing there is dignity in hard work and effort.
Ambition: Aiming to be the best that we can be, in all that we do.
Integrity: Believing in openness, honesty and have a real sense of moral purpose.
Tradition: Believing in good manners, kindness and respect.