Our school staff team aim to:        
  • Equip children with the skills, knowledge and understanding they will need for life-long learning in the 21st century. 
  • Offer a deep, 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 inquiring 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 (June 2018):
Target 1:
Leaders and those responsible for Governance should ensure that:
further training is undertaken so that all adults delivering the phonics programme can do so to a high standard, so that all groups of pupils’ phonics knowledge is secured rapidly.
Target 2:
Leaders and those responsible for Governance should ensure that:
all teachers provide pupils with challenging activities, which help them to make more rapid progress across the curriculum, especially in reading and spelling.

Our Basic Skills Quality Mark targets are (December 2019):
  • Improve the teaching and outcomes in phonics so staff are sufficiently knowledgeable and children make even better progress. Element 1, 2, 4, 6, 7
  • Improve spelling, vocabulary and speaking and listening so that higher order Reading skills impact on the progress and standards of reading across the school. Element 1, 3, 5, 7, 8.
  • To further develop problem-solving and reasoning skills in mathematics, particularly in pupils’ written work. (Elements: 1-3, 5, 7-8, 10).