We aim to:        
  • Equip children with the skills, knowledge and understanding they will need for life-long learning in the 21st century. 
  • Offer a broad and balanced education, maintaining high expectations of pupils’ achievements, with a strong commitment to improving the basic skills of all learners. 
  • Provide an extended range of experiences. 
  • Create a school community whose members can live a full, happy and secure life and achieve their full potential. 
  • Help children to develop creativity, originality and enquiring minds and become self-motivating learners. 
  • Provide a stimulating and caring environment which promotes positive attitudes to exploration, investigations and logical thinking. 
  • Help children to develop as moral and caring individuals with high self-esteem who are sensitive to the needs of others. 
  • Meet the needs and interests of all learners with a strong commitment to Inclusion and Equality of Opportunity for all. 
  • Encourage children to take responsibility and use initiative. 
  • Achieve a collaborative partnership between staff, parents, governors and other members of the community. 
  • Help children, parents and the community as a whole to become more aware of the environment and the need to conserve it.
Our Ofsted targets are (Nov 2014):
To raise the quality of teaching to outstanding and thereby accelerate pupils' progress by making sure that they:
  • challenge the most able pupils and to ensure they build on levels they achieve in the previous Key Stage.
  • make sure the disadvantaged pupils (although making good progress) reach the same standards of other pupils in the school or nationally.
Our Basic Skills Quality Mark targets are:
  • To increase the percentage of children in the Early Years Foundation (EYFS) attaining a good level of development.
  • To increase the percentage of pupils attaining the expected standard in the Year 1 phonics development.
  • To increase the attainment of pupils of average ability in reading, writing and mathematics by raising expectations about their capability of attaining above average scores.