THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL

 We aim:

1. To be an inclusive school and to put into place, in all aspects of our work, those practices that ensure that all learners are given both equality and fair treatment.

2. To promote and achieve high standards for all by providing teaching and learning of the highest quality.

3. To treat learners as individuals and to differentiate teaching and learning to take account of their individual and special needs.

4. To provide well for learners’ physical, mental, social, spiritual, moral and cultural needs.

5. To provide well for learners’ care, health and safety.

6. To ensure that all learners benefit from a rich, broad, balanced curriculum presented in an interesting, exciting and imaginative manner with lots of opportunities for first-hand experience, practical work, investigation and learning through play.

7. To teach basic skills and core subjects well and to give great emphasis to the foundation subjects and RE. In particular, we should emphasise the creative aspects including art, poetry, story, dance, music, performanc. These will be central to our work.

8. To make connections between subjects and to apply basic skills across the curriculum.

9. To enliven and enrich the curriculum by visits, visitors, and extensive use of the evironment.

10. To give responsibility to learners and develop their self-confidence by encouraging them to contribute to the community.

11. To make parents and the wider community equal partners with the school and to involve them in the evaluation of its success.

12. To build an ethos marked by a welcoming, friendly, bright and lively, happy place where learners feel secure. A place where good behaviour is expected and where learners enjoy growing up. To make this school a place of enjoyment where success is celebrated.