Our Aims & Beliefs

It's important for us to provide a caring and rewarding primary experience for our children, allowing them to achieve their full potential.

Our Aims
  • We aim to offer all children a caring and fruitful primary experience, which will maximise each child’s full potential in academic, social and personal development.
  • We aim to ensure that all children leave school feeling confident about their abilities and interactions, being able to operate with growing independence in the wider world.
  • We aim to create a safe, secure learning culture and environment throughout the school that supports all children’s learning in a stimulating manner.
  • We aim to deliver a broad, balanced and rich curriculum, which is accessible to all.
  • We aim to ensure that the needs of individual pupils are met through effective planning, delivery, assessment and target setting procedures.
  • We aim to ensure that our resources are of a high standard in order to further support and develop learning.
  • We aim to develop positive partnerships with all stakeholders and the community in order to support the children’s learning.


 

“Pupils leave school as mature and confident individuals” - OFSTED

Our Beliefs
We believe that the aims of the National Curriculum are most likely to be achieved where the following circumstances prevail.
  • Priority is given to the importance of first hand experiences and practical tasks in the acquisition and application of knowledge and skills and regular opportunities are provided for children to reflect systematically on their learning.
  • Pupils are encouraged to ask questions and seek answers individually and in co-operation with others, and their thinking is guided and informed by teachers and other adults.
  • Teacher’s expectations of what children are capable of are high and children’s learning is structured, relevant and stimulating.
  • Children are encouraged to become self-confident, self-disciplined and courteous; to set their own high standards and learn to appreciate when they have achieved them.
  • Children are encouraged to be active participants in school life, not merely spectators.
  • There is liaison with other support services, schools in the area and in particular with the Secondary Schools that we feed.
  • Staff are all committed to the same aims – providing a broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum and to raising standards for each pupil they teach.