The Oldham Pledge
The Oldham Pledge provides and promotes opportunities for children and young people to develop key character traits. This helps every child to be school ready, life ready and work ready.
The Oldham Pledge is led by schools across Oldham and highlights the importance of supporting every child to grow into well rounded confident citizens who can succeed as individuals and contribute to their community.
It is important for individuals to have key transferable skills and values that underpin their jobs and careers in the future and this starts from a young age being embedded throughout their school lives.
The Character Traits covered in The Oldham Pledge are:
- Healthy and fit
- Creative
- Moneywise
- Confident
- Motivated and aspirational
- Neighbourly and having community spirit
- Resilient, demonstrating persistence and grit
- Flexible
- Clear communicator
- Curious and able to problem solve
- Tolerant and respectful
- Honest, demonstrating integrity and dignity
- Team work
The pledges:
The Oldham Pledge is a series of 14 pledges (below) that each student in Year 7 will undertake giving them the chance to develop key character traits, key skills, improve their employability and to experience life through a broad & exciting curriculum, both inside and beyond school.
