VISION VALUES AND AIMS

At Giffards, where our vision statement is ‘Valuing Everyone as Learners’ we also have a set of aims and expectations which we hope you find as important as we do and help instil them in your children.

Our school is committed to helping every child to achieve their potential.

We strive to provide a caring, supportive and stimulating learning environment in which all children are helped to reach their emotional and academic potential. We believe Children learn best when they feel safe to take on challenges, are interested, motivated and feel valued. We recognise the importance of building positive self-esteem in children.

We adapt teaching to meet the needs of individual pupils. Teachers ‘weave’ specific approaches into every day, high-quality classroom teaching—being inclusive by design not as an afterthought.

Adaptive teaching is both carefully planned for and responsive during a lesson. At Giffards we believe that high quality teaching is the most important aspect of provision for all pupils including those with additional needs and SEND.

We want success and good progress for all children. We will maintain a broad and balanced curriculum and will always be keen to enrich this curriculum further and will try to ensure that all our children leave school with a positive disposition for learning so that they will become lifelong learners.

“Valuing everyone as learners”

Giffards Primary School in keeping with its shared vision of ‘valuing everyone as learners’ aims:

• To ensure that high quality teaching and learning is delivered consistently across the whole school
• To raise standards by ensuring that each pupil has appropriate academic challenge and support, continuity and progression
• To ensure that each and every learner is given the maximum opportunity to develop to their full potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or social group
• To facilitate learners acquisition of knowledge, skills and qualities which will help them to develop intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically and morally
• To enable all learners to become independent, responsible, confident and considerate members of their community and society in general
• To create and maintain an exciting and stimulating learning environment in classrooms and around school

We aim for our children to:

• Be confident, independent and resilient; displaying a thirst for learning
• Be kind; showing empathy and compassion whilst valuing diversity
• Be culturally knowledgeable about our country and our world
• Have aspirations for the future and know that these can be reached through hard work and determination
• Achieve academically across the entire curriculum, meeting at least the national expectation by the end of their primary education 
• To be well prepared for the challenges of the secondary school curriculum  
• To leave Giffards Primary School with a sense of belonging and pride that they have developed the confidence and skills needed to be learners for life.

Giffards Goals, Values and Aims

We use our Giffards Goals (behaviour rules and associated values) to support our children in learning how to learn. Our Giffards Goals are woven through the curriculum and along with PSHE lessons, assemblies and enrichment opportunities promote positive personal development and attitudes which reflect the values and skills needed for future learning and success.

Our values are represented by our four Giffards Goals, these are matched to associated values and are clearly understood and shared by every member of the school community.

Our Giffards Goals and values, underpin the school’s curriculum; these are embedded and celebrated within the school’s assembly themes as well as part of the ‘soft curriculum’ of adult role modelling and consistent reinforcement and referencing in lessons.

Our values are intrinsically woven into our 4 Giffards Goals of

• Be Responsible
• Be Respectful
• Be Safe
• Be Aspirational

Our Giffards Goals and values arose out of discussion with pupils and other members of the school community, they reflect what we believe to be important about people, about how communities work well and about how we learn and develop knowledge. Our Goals and Values inform and shape how Giffards Primary School is organised, how we expect people to relate to each other in school, as well as the content and processes of teaching and learning.  Our values focus on the way we work, behave and treat all members of the school community, we recognise their importance in developing strong communities. These form the basis for how we develop strong and positive relationships within the school and in its wider community. Our Giffards Goals are displayed prominently and referred to regularly in class, lessons and assemblies.