Mission Statement

Courage to Try, Power to Change

Our mission is to foster a school community where courage allows us to face challenges, kindness shapes our relationships, and resilience empowers us to overcome difficulty. We strive to collaborate with one another, embracing curiosity to continuously learn and grow. With respect as our foundation, we aim to create an environment that uplifts and inspires each individual to thrive, both personally and collectively.

 Key Values

Kindness - We all need kindness and above all we want our children to recognise the power of kindness to build relationships, to interactive positively with others and to support each other. Kindness is the value that allows our children to develop resilience and in turn courage. It is perhaps one of our most important values because of the impact that it has on all the others. 

Respect—We aim for children to have respect for themselves and others, for property and the environment; in order to enable everyone to thrive and have a positive place within our community. We want our children to respect the right of all individuals to be themselves and to celebrate our similarities alongside the things that make us unique and different. 

Courage – Courage allows children to take risks that are carefully considered but that may be a little scary. It allows our children to be open to challenge in the knowledge that although learning can be hard at times it is hugely but rewarding when we try something new or persevere with a challenge. With the courage to try, who knows what may be possible and what our children can achieve. 

Resilience - We want our children to be resilient, flexible and adaptable in order to learn in a range of different ways. We aim for all our children to develop resilience so that they can learn from things that don't go their way, negotiate friendships and relationships and move forward with confidence and independence. We want our children to know that when things don't go their way, that it is ok, it is part of the learning process and that they can have another go!

Curiosity – Children are curious as are all human beings. To be curious is to discover and move forward. Curious children discover, learn, invent, design and imagine. For the future that is unknown we want to build curiosity in our children to ensure they have a bright future with endless possibilities, limited only by their imaginations.

Collaboration – Through collaboration we can learn more and achieve more together. We want our children to grow as learners and into adults who are able to adapt their skills and working and learning styles to match new and different contexts. By collaborating with others who work or think differently, we learn a new perspective and discover more. Working together children can learn from each other and take their learning on every day.

Aims

We aim to:

• Teach children to respect their own and others’ rights
• Teach children the importance of a healthy lifestyle
• Teach children how to stay safe
• Encourage adults and children to work and play together creatively
• Enable all children to reach their full potential
• Provide parents with sufficient information and opportunities to help them support their children’s learning and development
• Encourage and enable all children to do their best and to have respect for others in work and play
• Teach children about society in order to help create the good citizens of the future
• Teach children about different cultures and prepare them to live in a multi-cultural society
• Have high expectations of academic excellence whilst promoting the personal, moral, cultural and spiritual development of our pupils
• Raise awareness in our children of the choices they have available to them  
• Ensure children respect British values

• Is kind
• Is creative
• Has to know all their number bonds
• Loves learning
• Helps us to learn
• Makes lessons fun
• Encourages good behaviour
• Looks after us
• Has good handwriting
• Is exciting
• Listens
• Plays every day
• Has our respect
• Uses the class rainbow
• Makes learning interesting
• Is respectful

• Is funny
• Makes learning interesting
• Is helpful
• Is aspirational for us
• Keeps us safe
• Is caring
• Works hard
• Challenges us
• Is good at explaining
• Takes time to talk to us
• Lets us work things out independently
• Is happy and friendly.