Aims
- To provide the children with a learning environment of a high quality which is stimulating and challenging, and where children, parents and staff feel valued and secure.
- To enable each child to reach his or her full potential through a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum to which they have equal access.
- To enable each child to acquire knowledge, skills and practical abilities and the motivation to apply them.
- To enable children to develop qualities of mind, body, spirit, feeling and imagination.
- To enable children to appreciate individual achievement.
- To teach children to behave in an acceptable way.
- To prepare children for their future lives at home, at work, at leisure and as consumers and citizens in a rapidly changing world, teaching them to value the cultural diversity of different lifestyles and religions.
- To help children develop a sense of self-respect, the capacity to live as independent, self-motivated individuals and the ability to function as contributing members of co-operative groups.
- To develop effective relationships between pupils, staff and the wider community.
- To create a school which sees itself not only as a place of learning but also as a place of employment, where the equality of opportunity is important for staff as well as for pupils.