School Wall Graphics - British Values Wall - Denbigh High School

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing Education Tree of words with a bookcase set into the wall - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing structure of UK government, Parliamentary Democracy, Legislature, Executive and Crown - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing list of fundamental British Values - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing Education Tree of words with Frederick Douglass, Mahatma Gandhi, Malala Yousafzai and others - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing Individual Liberty quote and young people detail - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing Rights and Responsibilities Tree detail and a bookcase set into the wall - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing Emmeline Pankhurst detail - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing the school building - hand illustrated wall design

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing Mutual Respect detail - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School wall graphics - British Values wall - showing Map of Europe detail with countries greeting each other - hand illustrated wall design by Toop Studio

School Wall Graphics – British Values Wall – Denbigh High School

The Brief

Our brief was to design a British Values wall graphic for the main corridor at Denbigh High School, Luton.

The Concept and Outcome

Our concept was to delve fairly deeply into each of the Fundamental British Values, as listed in a publication by the British Government. The purpose of the wall graphic was to inspire discussion and to ultimately promote the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils.

According to Ofsted, ‘fundamental British values’ are:

Democracy
The Rule of Law
Individual Liberty
Mutual Respect for and Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.

We designed a British Values wall that covered each of these topics in a fair amount of depth. The democracy section features an illustration showing the structure of British parliamentary democracy. The Rule of Law is demonstrated with the structure of the British legal system.

The central section of the wall surrounds a inset bookcase. We decided to use the motif of trees around the bookcase, to symbolise the role of education, rights and responsibilities in individual liberty. We used words in the branches of the trees alongside quotations from several well known figures to explore the issues.

Further along the wall we deal with Mutual Respect and Tolerance in two panels that show a stylised town containing places of worship alongside secular buildings such as centres for science, the Arts and sport.

Finally, at the start of the British Values wall graphic, we show geographical maps of Britain at different scales, which shows our relationship to the constituent countries within the UK and our place in Europe and the World.

Client’s Response

‘The attention and skill Shadric contributed throughout in terms of design, creativity and responding to the brief we presented to him for the various projects has been first class.’

Colin Townsend
Headteacher (2016), Denbigh High School