School Aims

Learning is our Business Progress is our Product

We aim to

To create an atmosphere in which every child and adult feels happy and welcomed.

To establish a caring and stimulating environment in which every child feels secure and confident.

To establish strong positive relationships with parents and carers, so that there is a united commitment to every child’s learning

To foster the feeling of social worth, awareness and respect for self, others in the community and with those in the wider world

To encourage independence, initiative, and adaptability in all children, to prepare them with the skills needed for a lifetime of learning.

To provide every child with opportunities to achieve his or her potential full academically, socially, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Each child should be acknowledged as an individual.
He or she deserves their share of the time available and should be helped to recognise their own worth.
Child / teacher relationships will develop from communication, mutual awareness and respect.
Each child should be encouraged to see his/her own strengths and weaknesses.
The latter should be seen as areas to work on and not areas of failure.

Where problem areas occur the child should receive the attention and explanation he/she deserves.
Responsibilities delegated to a child will develop a sense of confidence, self worth and give that child a feeling of belonging

Parents/Carers are welcomed in the school and recognised as prime educators of their child.
Parents/Carers should be treated with consideration. They know the child best.
As partners, parents and staff must see the benefits of each others work - sleepless nights, tears, agitation or excitement, may be the result of a day at school.
Staff and parents must share their varying, often complementary perceptions of the child, during parent interviews or informal discussions before or after school. In this way we will all achieve a greater insight of the individual – which has to be to his/her benefit.

We will take every opportunity to involve parents/carers into our own routines and activities.
We value parents/carers in the school community, sharing in all our activities.

The tasks set for children should be challenging but not threatening.
Children should be stimulated and excited by environment and its associated work
Assessment for learning should be an integral element; ensuring progression within each lesson.
Clear targets need to be set by and or for children.
The children need to be aware of their targets and how they can improve their work to achieve them.
Resources and opportunities should be made available to develop and foster independent skills.

Curriculum based activities should encourage an awareness of a child's responsibilities to his/her environment. This would also extend to the wider community e.g. street, village, country, world etc.
Each child needs to become aware of his/her responsibility to the environment.
The class teacher should develop a sense of wonder, enjoyment, and a natural curiosity in our children.
Within the age range we teach, perhaps more than any other, the environment is perceived as a new exciting place to be explored – Let it be so in our school.
Children’s awareness of the wider community will be enhanced by such events as Harvest Festival and it’s consequential distribution of produce, outside visits and fund raising for various charities.

Staff will need to keep abreast of developments in the many faceted areas of the curriculum
We all require stimulation, refreshment, positive reinforcement, and boosting of morale.
Team spirit and mutual support are imperative to enable us to achieve the above aims to the best of our ability.

All children will receive the best

education that we can provide,

regardless of their background, ability, or gender