Our Aims

Our aims for our pupils:

• Stimulate, nurture, and develop individuality and lively, enquiring minds in an atmosphere that is welcoming, safe and secure
• Provide an accessible, supportive, positive and challenging learning environment for all children
• Develop in pupils a sense of self-worth and independence, which enables each child to aim for and realise their fullest potential
• To educate children on the UN Rights of the Child and the associated responsibilities, which enables them to contribute positively to society
• To teach children to express their thoughts, feelings and opinions in a respectful way and know that they should be heard
• Offer a broad and balanced curriculum which develops children’s knowledge and skills to enable them to become active, confident and responsible members of a rapidly changing world
• To enhance children’s Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural (SMSC) development through daily curriculum and enriching experiences

Our aims for our whole school community:

• Foster a school culture which is inclusive and places equal value on all its members whilst still viewing people as individuals
• Develop respect for and understanding of the ideas, cultures and beliefs of others, irrespective of their backgrounds, characteristics and life experiences
• Build partnerships between the school, the home, the local community and the wider world
• Promote and uphold the fundamental British Values of Tolerance, Mutual Respect, Democracy, Individual Liberty and Rule of Law
• Provide the whole community with a place of sanctuary and care.

‘Education is the passport to the future,

for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.’

Malcolm X