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Our School Ethos
Our school ethos is based on trust, respect and honesty. As a school community we are approachable and supportive, encouraging one another to develop, build on our successes and work towards achieving our full potential. We are proud to belong to a happy, successful school where we strive to improve by:
- understanding how self-belief influences success
- aspiring to achieve challenging goals
- valuing learning
- aiming for everyone to achieve their potential
Learning Definition
We believe that learning is a personal, rigorous and continuous process where connections are made and strengthened so that we gain more knowledge, improve our skills and deepen our understanding. By developing our personal goals, purposeful thinking, experience, enquiry and enjoyment we are prepared for our future careers and life’s challenges.
Learning is observing, exploring, discussing, reflecting, remembering, understanding new knowledge and skills and being able to communicate this to others. We all learn in different ways and from making mistakes!
We believe that learning can be divided into three areas:
Knowledge – remembering facts. I know it if I can remember it.
Skills – Actions which I can practise
Understanding – knowing why something exists, happens or works. This usually involves reflecting upon skills and knowledge. This can develop and improve over time.
Personal Learning Goals
We have high expectations of behaviour at our school. Adults in school act as role models for children and therefore endeavour to model positive behaviour at all times.
We believe everyone in school can develop the following ten personal learning goals which will help them to achieve their potential
| Care | To look after ourselves, others ,the wider community and the environment |
| Respect | Know about, show respect for and act in accordance with the varying needs of other people, living things and the environment. |
| Morality | Know about moral issues associated with the subjects they study
Know about respect and other moral standpoints Be able to develop and act upon their own moral standpoints To explain reasons for their actions |
| Communication | To make their meaning plain using appropriate verbal and non- verbal forms
To be able to use various tools and technologies To communicate in more than one spoken language To communicate with a range of different audiences and in different contexts |
| Cooperation | Understand that different people have different roles to play in groups
Be able to adopt different roles depending upon the needs of the group and on the activity Be able to work alongside and in cooperation with others, to undertake activities and achieve targets |
| Thoughtfulness | Be able to consider issues raised in their studies
Use a range of thinking skills in solving problems To consider and report alternative viewpoints To draw conclusions and develop own reasoned point To reflect upon what they have learned and its implication for their own lives and the lives of other people Be able to identify own strengths and areas to be developed Be able to identify and act on ways of developing their strengths and overcoming their areas of development |
| Adaptability | Know about a range of views cultures and traditions
Consider and respect views cultures and traditions of other people Be able to cope with unfamiliar situations Be able to approach tasks with confidence Be able to suggest and explore new roles ideas and strategies Be able to move between conventional and more fluid forms of thinking Be as ease with themselves in a variety of situation |
| Enquiry | Ask and consider searching questions
Plan and carry out investigations related to these questions Collect reliable evidence from their investigations Use evidence to draw sustainable conclusions Be able to relate conclusions to wider issues |
| Responsibility | Acknowledge that they have done something
Reflecting upon their own actions |
| Resilience | Be able to stick with a task until it is completed
Be able to cope with disappointment when they are not successful Be able to try again when they are not successful |
International Mindedness
We follow a curriculum which promotes international mindedness. We believe that children will be better equipped for life beyond school if they are more globally aware. As a school we define international mindedness as
‘To have an awareness of ourselves and others’
