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Pledges play an important role at Swavesey Village College. The secondary school in rural Cambridgeshire has made a pledge to its students that by the time they leave, every one of them will have taken part in volunteering.
The school's leaders believe participating in social action is a valuable learning experience all of its 1,300 pupils should have and can be important in them developing the right character traits for future success.
The volunteering promise is built into a character education programme called Pledges that has been adopted by the Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust - which Swavesey is part of - and is built around British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance.
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