Yohden Primary School

Windsor Terrace, Horden, Peterlee SR8 4HP

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Home / About Us / Our Ethos

Our Ethos

Believe Aspire Learn Achieve!

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’ 

 

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Windsor Terrace

Horden

Peterlee

SR8 4HP

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