CREST Values

Character at St Thomas More

St Thomas More Catholic School strives to ensure that pupils are given opportunities to cultivate virtues to become happy, confident and well-rounded individuals who make meaningful contributions within the school community and the wider society.

We aim to achieve this through:

Character Caught: Developing a shared language around our character values, CREST.

Character Taught: Developing opportunities in the curriculum for the explicit teaching of virtues, especially in Sport, Drama and the Creative Arts.

Character Sought: Developing a culture of volunteerism within the school with a number of leadership initiatives within and outside the school.

CREST

At the heart of our school are our character values, which are the virtues of courage, respect, effort, service and teamwork.

All students have a CREST Passport to record and reflect on how they demonstrate these school virtues during their time in school. We celebrate the excellent character demonstrated by our students through the CREST Award. Our assembly programme also makes weekly reference to our character virtues.

Character Initiatives

School Council
Youth Club
Peer Mentoring
Guided Reading
CAFOD Young Leaders
Liturgical Prefects
Duke of Edinburgh
Work Experience
Jack Petchey Speak Out
Green Club

Case Study

Green Club

Sixth Form Green Club meet up every Friday lunchtime to discuss environmental issues. Last year, students participated in the COP 2022 Conference. Students engaged in a community project, creating an ‘urban jungle’ with neighbouring Earlham Primary School to provide them with the benefits of a green space. They led the Year 5 pupils with the design and building of 'bug hotels' to harvest local wildlife and learn about STEM topics as well as different animal species in the area.