Assembly

Assemblies take place each week for every year group and play a key role in the delivery of the Personal Development curriculum. This allows each year group to come together as a community and learn about important issues and topics. Assemblies are planned carefully to reflect what students are learning in PSHE lessons and each half term we deliver assemblies with a specific safeguarding focus to address our contextual safeguarding factors. This ensures that students understand how to keep them safe and understand how to report any concerns they have. Stand-alone assemblies exist to address important themes such as racism, online safety and to mark national awareness days such as Refugee week, Holocaust Memorial Day and cervical cancer awareness day. Praise assemblies take place at the end of each term to celebrate and reward student achievements.  

Assemblies for Autumn Term 2024 

Our assemblies programme makes explicit links to the British Values and reinforces students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.  

SMSC  FBV  HAB value	Assembly focus	Date  Week beginning
Social + moral   Mutual respect   Rule of law	HAB expectations and safeguarding at HAB	4th September
Spiritual + Social   Individual liberty   Respect	Head of Year assembly: the year ahead	9th September
Social   Mutual respect   Compassion	Young carers     Y9 First Give launch assembly	16th September
Moral   Tolerance   Ambition	Safeguarding assembly:  Mental health	23rd September
Cultural   Rule of law + tolerance   Respect	British Values	30th September
Social  Individual liberty   Ambition	HAB careers     WEX launch Y10	7th October
Cultural   Tolerance   Respect	Black History month	14th October
Moral   Mutual respect   Respect + Compassion	Anti-bullying / child on child abuse	4th November
Cultural  Democracy   Respect	Remembrance Day	11th November
Moral   Rule of law   Respect	Safeguarding assembly: Online safety and YPSI	18th November
Cultural + social  Individual liberty   Respect	Social media/ phone use – screen time	25th November
Social   Individual liberty  Respect	Healthy living	2nd December
Spiritual   Mutual respect   Compassion	Values and character	9th December
Social   Mutual respect   Respect + ambition	Awards assemblies	16th December