• Research suggests that there are enabling character traits which can improve educational attainment, engagement with school and attendance.

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• Access to character development opportunities in schools can lead pupils that take part to be highly motivated, report fewer absences and have lower levels of emotional distress, amongst other outcomes.

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• Alongside the school’s ethos and taught curriculum there is strong provision for co-curricular activities. The programme is designed to focus on high quality activities across a wide spectrum of different domains (for example cultural, creative, sporting, physical, service- oriented, volunteering) which enable pupils to participate over time, learn and improve in their chosen activities and compete or perform as appropriate.

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• Research by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues found that individuals who first get involved in service under the age of 10 were more than twice as likely to have formed a habit of service than if they started aged 16–18 years, and they are also more likely to be involved in a wider range of service activities and participate in them more frequently.