Our Vision & Values
Our Vision is summarised in the strapline ‘A Place to Belong’.
Our school is a family where everyone feels safe, happy and valued and is supported to achieve their full potential. We will develop compassionate and caring individuals who depend on one another, are highly motivated, and have a life-long love of learning in preparation for their futures.
“Though we are many, we form one body, all joined together as members of the whole. We each have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.”
Our Vision
Our Vision is summarised in the strapline ‘A Place to Belong’ which is also linked to St Paul’s Church vision.
Through our schools theologically rooted vision, we want children to both belong and work together as part of our school family, forming the whole body. Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, we are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. All stakeholders gave feedback on our schools vision and values and the value that stood out was Koinonia, which we use as the value Family. We all form one body, we are one family.
As part of our vision and the rest of our school values, St Paul wrote that ‘God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously and if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly’.
Our Core Values
All that we do is underpinned by the core Christian values of Family (Koinonia), Compassion, Perseverance and Forgiveness.
We want our children to leave St Paul's C of E Primary having a genuine love for learning and passion for life. Alongside this, we believe in teaching our children to have sound core values with an emphasis on respect for others, mutual understanding and a celebration of diversity.
At the heart of our curriculum design are our school aims, vision and values. Our aim is to provide an exciting, well-rounded and inclusive curriculum to prepare our pupils for the next stage of education, and for their future.
In addition to the acquisition of knowledge and skills, the delivery of our curriculum supports and develops our Christian values and 'life skills' such as collaboration, perseverance, resilience and problem solving; so our pupils become confident and curious learners, well prepared for the 21st century.
