Vision & Values

Inspire, Believe, Achieve

Our school provides a safe, caring, friendly and welcoming environment where every child matters and every child is unique. We value individuals and children are at the heart of all we do. We make learning fun, encouraging originality and creativity through delivering a broad, balanced, stimulating and engaging curriculum accessible to all. This ensures that our children are given the best opportunities to succeed in all they do enabling them to reach their full potential.

Together with our parents and the local community we take pride in our children’s positive attitudes towards their work and each other. We encourage our children to take responsibility and to be independent: building life skills to enable them to succeed now and in the future.

School Aims

To create a learning environment in which all children feel secure, nurtured, wanted and appreciated, where differences are celebrated and the children are able to flourish.
To ensure that every child succeeds to the best of their ability and leaves with a sound foundation in Literacy, Numeracy and Computing.
To develop life skills necessary for life in the 21^st century.
To encourage an active and healthy lifestyle.
To foster the children’s interest in and involvement with their environment and grow their curiosity about the world.
To respect and appreciate the value of individuals and cultural diversity, ensuring our children are tolerant and respectful of all and understand British Values.
To work in partnership with our parents and the local community.
To encourage our children to take pride in all they achieve and to thrive in our care.
To encourage our children to be kind, resilient and creative individuals with high self-esteem.
To foster spiritual, moral and cultural awareness in our pupils and provide a range of cultural capital experiences during their educational journey.

How we promote British Values and SMSC

“Pupils have many opportunities to contribute to school life. Older pupils take on additional responsibilities, such as those of reading ambassadors, value ambassadors and school council members. This contributes to pupils’ strong sense of belonging that embodies the school’s inclusive culture.”
Ofsted 2019

Democracy

Democracy is embedded at the school. Pupils are always listened to by adults and are taught to listen carefully and with concern to each other, respecting the right of every individual to have their opinions and voices heard. Pupils also have the opportunity to air their opinions and ideas through our School Council.. The elections of the School Council and Digital Leaders are based solely on pupil votes, reflecting our British electoral system and demonstrating democracy in action.

The Rule of Law

The importance of laws whether they are those that govern the class, the school or the country, are consistently reinforced. Our school has school rules which are deeply embedded in our work every day. Each class also discusses and sets its own rules that are clearly understood by all and seen to be necessary to ensure that every class member is able to learn in a safe and ordered environment. Our pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken.

Individual Liberty

Within school, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for our pupils to make choices safely, through the provision of a safe environment and an empowering education. Our pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely; examples of this can be clearly seen in our e-safety and P.S.H.E. lessons. Whether it is through choice of activity; of how they record; of participation in our sporting activities and numerous extra- curricular activities; our pupils are given the freedom to make choices.

Mutual Respect

Respect is one of the core values of our school and it is deeply embedded in all that we do at the school. The pupils know and understand that it is expected and imperative that respect is shown to everyone, whatever differences we may have and to everything, however big or small. The core value of Respect at Scott Primary School underpins our work every day both in and out of the classroom. Children are also encouraged to hold areas of responsibility such as Playground Pals, Values Ambassadors, Reading Ambassadors and Science Ambassadors. This gives our children meaningful opportunities to understand how to be responsible, respectful and active citizens.

Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs

Our core value of Respect ensures tolerance of those who have different faiths and beliefs. Scott Primary School enhances pupils understanding of different faiths and beliefs through religious education studies; P.S.H.E. work; visits to places of worship; welcoming visitors from the community that are not predominately white British and enjoying a depth of study during themed weeks. Beliefs, traditions and customs will be studied in depth, with visitors being invited in to our school to enrich and extend understanding. Language Ambassadors are pivotal within our school, translating and supporting children new to the UK. Through this our pupils gain an enhanced understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society. The understanding of children’s cultures in school and locally, and nationally is a strength within our school ethos and curriculum, developing respect and understanding for others around them.

”Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural understanding is exceptionally well developed through the school’s planned curriculum and the assemblies programme. They have a profound understanding of the different faiths and cultures that reflect the context of modern Britain.”
Ofsted 2019

Scott Primary aims to embed SMSC in all aspects of school life, from individual lessons to extra-curricular activities and assemblies. A progressive scheme of work is followed that is based upon an enquiry question and encompasses British values as part of the learning.

SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Children are given opportunity to be reflective about their own beliefs (religious or otherwise) and form their own perspective on different faiths, feelings and values. They are encouraged to show enjoyment and fascination towards themselves and the world around them and reflect on this with imagination and creativity.

MORAL DEVELOPMENT
Teachers plan opportunities for children to explore the difference between right and wrong and the consequences of their actions. They learn to respect civil and criminal law and are encouraged to understand and appreciate the moral and ethical viewpoints of others.

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Children are encouraged to work alongside people from other backgrounds. They participate in social setting and communities including volunteering, cooperating and resolving conflicts effectively. Scott Explorers develop social and emotional skills in an outdoor context and our Nurture Groups provide groups of children with group social development opportunities.
British values, democracy, rule of law, mutual respect, liberty and tolerance are promoted, with children being encouraged to make a positive contribution to modern Britain.

CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Children are encouraged to develop an interest in exploring different faiths and cultural diversity. We teach them to show understanding towards others in their local, global and national communities.
By the end of Year 6, children have a knowledge of the parliamentary system of core British values and history and are given opportunity to participate and respond to many artistic, sporting and cultural opportunities.