our direction
Vision, values and mission
At Allscott Meads Primary and Nursery
we have worked hard with all stakeholders to develop
our clear Vision, Values and Aims
ensuring that they best represent our core beliefs regarding how children should be educated. Underpinned by our whole school ethos of ‘Our Community, Our School,’ they enable us to outline the key messages that we as an academy wish to promote across our curriculum offer and whole school community.
Our vision
Our vision at Allscott Meads Primary and Nursery is to ensure that we provide our diverse and inclusive community with a bespoke curriculum offer. We highly value the contributions made by children and their families, who join us from diverse economic, social and cultural backgrounds. Our core values of kindness, belonging, respect, enjoyment and success are central to our vision for a happy, inclusive, equitable and successful academy.
By promoting British values, of tolerance, respect, democracy, liberty and rule of Law alongside our core values, of kindness, belonging, respect, inspiration, success and enjoyment, we encourage our pupils to approach life with an empathetic attitude underpinned by kindness, care and understanding of others. In doing so, we believe we promote the development of globally minded individuals who appreciate the enrichment and enjoyment that acceptance, tolerance, and diversity bring to our academy and wider community.
As an academy, we believe in a culture of inclusion; therefore, our children are encouraged to recognise their own value as well as the value of those around them. We actively seek to develop positive relationships across our community, ensuring children feel safe, secure, and well cared for and listened to. We promote a genuine sense of belonging, empowering, and enabling our children to develop confidence in their own abilities and talents. We believe in a culture of celebration and success, ensuring our children recognise the positive contribution each unique person makes within our academy and its wider community.
At Allscott Meads Primary and Nursery, we equip our children for learning with a knowledge-based curriculum, fostering genuine curiosity across the subject range. To support this, we underpin our curriculum offer with a carefully considered approach to mental health and well-being, adopting ‘Jigsaw’ as central to our personal, social, health and economy provision. We believe that this ensures a calm and caring consistent approach as children understand that robust mental health and positive attitudes are essential to the learning culture across the academy. We strongly believe that this approach further supports us when preparing our children for an ever-changing world that can require high levels of emotional resilience.
Our core values
- Stay safe and show kindness
- Belong
- Respect
- Inspire
- Succeed
- Enjoy
Our aims
- To create a safe and secure environment in which children can develop positive relationships with staff and pupils.
- To nurture, engage and develop lively individuals with a genuine curiosity for learning.
- To ensure all pupils know they are of high value to support the development of positive self-esteem.
- To develop self-worth, independence and resilience in an environment that presents a positive level of challenge.
- To encourage children to take ownership of their emotions, to feel validated when expressing their thoughts and feelings.
- To know that they have a right to consideration and respect and that they in turn should offer others the same consideration and respect.
- To provide all children with a broad, balanced, and inclusive knowledge-based curriculum offer to support their links across different subject areas.
- To support pupils in developing their positive attitudes to learning and encourage them to take responsibility for their mental health and wellbeing.
- To provide enriching, purposeful, and exciting real-life contexts to underpin engaging learning opportunities.
- To encourage all children to be active and develop their understanding in how to look after their physical as well as mental health and well-being.
- To foster a culture of inclusivity, where equal value is placed on all its members.
- To develop acceptance and tolerance when learning about different ideas, cultures, and beliefs.
- To promote and uphold a culture of ‘British values’ in conjunction with our ‘core values.’
- To provide learners with a place of care and sanctuary, where their safety is paramount, and they are enabled to grow and thrive.
- For all children to have access to a culture which believes in their fundamental right to an education that prepares them for a life lived to its full potential.
