What are the aims of our schools, and what do they communicate about values? The aims of education are contested (Garratt and Forrester, 2012), originating from a variety of stakeholders. For schools, this can often feel like a juggling act, adding newly emerging aims of education to current practices with limited time and resources. In the UK, 37 per cent of all state-funded primary schools and 19 per cent of all state-funded secondary schools are faith schools (Long and Bolton, 2018), with 29.7 per cent of all primary pupils and 72.3 per cent of all secondary school pupils now attending academies and free schools (DfE, 2018). As well as this, seven per cent of pupils are privately educated. In this context, values from a variety of sources can influence the aims of education. The aims stated in the Department for Education’s (DfE) National Curriculum are broad: that students should be introduced to the essential knowledge needed to be educated citizens (DfE, 2014). What count
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