Our Awards

 Rights Respecting Level 2 Award

Surrey Healthy Schools Award

Activemark

British Council International School Award (Intermediate)

We are working towards our Green Flag Award and the Full International School Award.

Our awards celebrate our commitment to the development of healthy choices and lifestyles for the whole community. Our aim is for everyone in our school to be happy, healthy, safe, supported and motivated.

 Unicef’s Rights Respecting Schools Award:  Unicef have adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and work across the world to make children’s rights a reality for all children, encouraging children themselves to take on responsibilities towards others.  In learning about their rights, our children understand that to enjoy their rights they have to become rights respecters. Children learn that they have responsibilities in our school, our community and our wider world.

Although we have achieved our level 2 award, we will continue to learn about rights and responsibilities, focusing on children’s active participation in decision making in all areas of school life, and learning about global issues and how children can make changes happen.

 These are Bell Farm's monthly values:

Our 22 Values:

September 2009 Respect           September 2010 Belonging
October 2009 Happiness            October 2010 Friendship
November 2009 Unity                November 2010 Freedom
December 2009 Love & Humility December 2010 Peace
January 2010 Hope                   January 2011 Honesty
February 2010 Trust                 February 2011 Simplicity
March 2010 Thoughtfulness      March 2011 Understanding
April 2010 Appreciation            April 2011 Care and Compassion
May 2010 Quality                       May 2011 Confidence
June 2010 Fairness                   June 2011 Co-operation
July 2010 Courage                     July 2011 Responsibility

For our renewed Healthy Schools Award we will be continuing to explore:

• Personal, Social and Health Education, including drugs education and sex and relationships education,
• Healthy eating in our improved Tuck Inn,
• Physical activity through an improved PE curriculum and a wider range of clubs,
• Emotional health and well-being in order to raise our children’s achievement in learning, and in their physical and emotional well-being.

Bell Farm achieved the Foundation Level International Award in 2009/10, following a number of international activities including a ‘rights-respecting’ International Week and developing a link with Kashangura School in Uganda.  Preparations are underway for the Full Award and we hope to receive this recognition of our international work later this year.

The Activmark rewards the delivery of the national PE & Sport Strategy. Schools are automatically assessed each year through the national school sport survey, which all School Sport Partnership schools take part in. Schools receive the mark if at least 90% of pupils across the school are doing at least 2 hours high quality PE and school sport a week.

The Green Flag Award is the highest environmental award possible for schools and is earned by having a rigorous program of promoting sustainability throughout the school curriculum. Recent innovations have included: measuring our lunch waste, creating our own Bell Farm bag for life, year group gardens, composting fruit and lunch waste. We are currently looking forward to redeveloping our wildlife area with a new greenhouse and a community allotment!