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Ethos & Values

Believe, Achieve, Succeed.

Our school values and celebrates each person by placing learning, enjoyment, achievement and wellbeing at the heart of our community.

Adults promote the school values, including respect, tolerance and resilience. Pupils take pride in upholding these values.Ofsted 2021

We have high expectations of all pupils, we encourage ambition and aspirational thinking through our ‘Opening doors, Opening minds’ approach to the curriculum and additional enrichment opportunities.


Our Aims

  1. To provide children with a happy, healthy, caring, and safe environment in which to grow and learn.
  2. To ensure that the highest quality of teaching and curriculum nurtures and supports all children to thrive and reach their full potential.
  3. To deliver the full breadth of the National Curriculum effectively, with emphasis on the basic skills of reading, writing, maths and digital literacy.
  4. To provide rich learning experiences which reflect real life and encourage curiosity, independence and a lifelong love of learning.
  5. To promote an attitude of care, tolerance, trust and respect among our children, within the school and within the local and wider, global community.
  6. To develop positive self-image, self-motivation, self-discipline and confidence in all of our children.
  7. To secure a purposeful partnership between school, the home and the community.
  8. To ensure strong, and approachable leadership which communicates a clear vision to the whole school community.
  9. To prepare all pupils for their futures.

Our Values 

Respect

Responsibility

Individuality

Tolerance

Resilience

Determination

Self-belief

Independence

Equality

Community