Our vision is to be an outstanding community school which inspires all learners to reach their full potential and become the achievers of tomorrow.

Core Values

Everything that we do will be guided by the strongest possible emphasis on:

• Honesty, respect and high quality relationships
• Consistency and fairness
• Praise, recognition and celebration of success and diversity
• Being at the heart of our community and serving it to the best of our ability
• Excellent communication
• Doing what we say we will do and being fully accountable

Objectives

As a professional learning community, we will achieve our vision by:

• Having high but realistic expectations of all
• Making learning enjoyable and inspiring as well as relevant
• Releasing the creative potential in our students and helping them to develop as active, independent learners
• Removing barriers to learning and encouraging a strong commitment to lifelong learning
• Getting the right balance between challenge, guidance and support
• Encouraging and developing leadership skills and qualities
• Encouraging and developing students’ sense of responsibility to others as well as themselves
• Promoting spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding
• Being inclusive and welcoming
• Offering a wide range of activities and opportunities beyond as well as during the school day
• Promoting health and safety, wellbeing and fulfilment
• Working in partnership with parents as well as other schools, organisations and agencies

and through all this we will develop our students as confident, responsible and rounded individuals ready to contribute fully to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

September 2008