Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural

Encouraging spiritual and moral development are not new as goals of education. Indeed, many teachers would say that they are fundamentally concerned with the education of the "whole child". However, establishing a shared understanding of what this means has proved to be difficult and, consequently, it has not always been seriously addressed by most subject teachers. There has been a feeling that spiritual and moral development properly belongs somewhere other than in a Maths lesson -in RE, say, or in tutor period or assemblies.

Moral and spiritual dimensions should be present in the teaching of mathematics. The Charis Team found three possible approaches to dealing with these dimensions. These approaches overlap and inter-relate and are more than likely not exhaustive.  Click here for a short summary document.

The school curriculum comprises all learning and other experiences that each school provides for its pupils. This includes the National Curriculum, religious education, collective worship, sex education and careers education.

The school curriculum has two aims:

  • to provide opportunities for all pupils to learn and achieve          

  • to promote pupils' spiritual, moral social and cultural development and prepare all pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life.

Within the school curriculum, the National Curriculum secures for all pupils, irrespective of social background, culture, race, gender, differences in ability and disabilities, an entitlement to a number of areas of learning and to develop knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes necessary for their self-fulfillment and development as active and responsible citizens.

Click here for historical information on the development of Mathematics and the Mathematicians who brought about those advances.
Global Dimension

Global Dimension is a unique website for teachers. A helpful guide to books, videos, posters and websites which bring a global dimension to teaching.

From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find teaching resources for all age groups and subject areas. Many of them are free, and you can search for resources about particular countries using the data base.

And in the Global Dimension Community you can read other teacher's experiences or views or learn about local support, professional development and school speaker services.

Global Gateway is the one-stop shop for international partnerships, where you can find schools from all over the world. The Global Gateway will also help with teaching resources and policy guidance for internationalism in schools.

Oxfams Coolplanet website provides a range of resources related to their work