OUR SCHOOL ETHOS

Learn, respect, enjoy, achieve, together.

We believe that academic achievement, although vitally important, is not the only criterion by which we should judge our success.

Our vision is to:

• Create a happy learning environment.
• Teach children to mix easily with other children and adults, and help them recognise the enjoyment and satisfaction to be gained from working with others.
• Help children develop a measure of independence, a sense of self-worth and the confidence to be self-critical; to encourage them to take increasing responsibility for their own learning and to become contributing, autonomous and self-motivated members of society.
• Help children develop confidence in co-operating, negotiating and seeing things from more than one point of view; to encourage confidence in exercising initiative.
• Foster awareness of their interaction with, and responsibility for, the immediate and wider environment.
• Offer all pupils equality of opportunity; to reflect and value cultural diversity and use it to enrich children's experience and understanding; to help recognise and counter discrimination and prejudice of all kinds.
• Establish an environment in which teachers, pupils, parents, carers, governors, other colleagues in education and non-teaching staff can work together to achieve this vision.

We will achieve this by:

• setting high standards and goals for all
• ensuring pupils take responsibility for their own learning
• using a variety of effective and inspiring teaching strategies and effective feedback
• providing excellent learning opportunities
• having clear and consistent  shared expectations of all
• working in close partnership with parents, carers and community
• sharing and celebrating the successes of everyone in our school community
• developing an increasingly differentiated and distinctive learning environment

In an environment which is:

• safe and nurturing
• fun, exciting and purposeful
• trusting respectful and inclusive
• appropriately resourced and organised
• accessible by the whole school and wider community