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Whole School Charter and Badges

The Emotional Intelligence Charter is a vision developed jointly by Girton Grammar School students and staff. It includes ways we can learn together and interact positively by providing a catalogue of agreed-upon behaviours that everyone in the school aspires to uphold. Because it is a collaborative effort, this Charter helps everyone to connect genuinely with each other. Ultimately, the Charter facilitates a sense of safety, comfort, belonging, and empowerment to all who contributed to its creation. Over 870 students and staff contributed to this development.

Accompanying the Charter are the cornerstone values we will be asking students to explore in 2019 and beyond.  These values take the form of badges and each child and staff member in our school has already received their own badge. Staff will work with students this year on these badge values so that students develop an age appropriate understanding of what each badge represents. There is no stipulation on wearing a badge every day but we would like to encourage students to wear them at formal occasions such as Foundation Day, the Carols Service and Speech night.

Students will only ever receive one new badge. Lost badges can be replaced via Morey reception or Junior School reception but as with any item it will require parent permission for the badge cost to be added to the school account. Our Staff are committed to developing these values and we will work with students on the Charter and Badge values throughout the year. Students are asked to wear them with pride.

We encourage parents to openly discuss your child’s badges with them. The badges will be a talking point and wearing a badge means staff, students and the community will ask students what it stands for.  We expect students can in time, answer this confidently and give examples of behaviours that identify their badge.

A full copy of our Whole School Emotional Intelligence Charter can be seen on our website and further information specific to badges can be read on your Astra parent page.

Our current badges for students are;

• IMAGINE
• REGULATION/REPUTATION
• P.R.I.M.E AWARENESS

Mr Paul Flanagan

Head of Emotional Intelligence