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Great Abington Primary School
Our School Vision, Values and our Personal Qualities
Our vision for every pupil is that they:
- Reach their full potential and meet the high expectations set for them
- Celebrate their successes with others
- Feel happy and secure in their learning and play
- Are enthusiastic, committed and engaged in all areas of school life
- Strengthen their learning with healthy, balanced diets and activity
- Work collaboratively as part of the wider community
- Show respect, consideration and support for everyone and the environment
- Can talk about and understand their feelings and the feelings of others
To enable pupils to achieve these aims, all staff are committed to:
- Developing nurturing relationships which enable pupils to flourish
- Using different teaching and learning approaches which are inclusive
- Fostering confident and motivated learners
- Creating a positive, supportive and engaging learning environment
- Providing a range of experiences and challenges to develop skills and interests
- Listening to our pupils and responding positively to their needs
- Maintaining positive home / school partnerships
Our School Values
At the heart of our school philosophy are our five core values: Curiosity, Positivity, Community, Healthiness and Safety. We integrate teaching the values throughout lessons and our wide range of sporting, cultural, outdoor and arts based enrichment activities. Our provision provides pupils with opportunities to demonstrate the values. Our ambitions and expectations require all pupils to use the values throughout the school day. Increasingly we are seeing our values used outside school and for parents / carers they provide a framework for family conversations. We are an accredited school that has been awarded the VBE IVET School's Quality Mark and we have led sessions on the impact values have on pupils outcomes. The relationships between the home, school community and pupils are crucial to all values.
Our Personal Qualities
Our values are underpinned by six personal qualities that all pupils are actively encouraged to develop and demonstrate: Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, Cooperation, Caring and Motivation.
We often describe our school as being like an extended family. Our size means that we can all learn each others’ names and get to know everyone. To encourage children to develop a caring attitude towards younger pupils, all children become part of one of our school families, the Badgers, Foxes, Rabbits, Moles and Squirrels. Family groups meet together regularly to share reading sessions, carry out activities and to discuss issues to put forward at School Council. This system helps us to give all our children a chance to have their say in aspects of school life. Recently our Google infrastructure has enabled all pupils to collaborate simultaneously on key school development plan areas.
We are every proud of how our vision, values and qualities shape our pupil outcomes and our Twitter feed showcases a selection of our achievements. Please do feel free to contact us if you would like any further information or would like to arrange a visit.