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Ethos and Vision

Ethos and Vision

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Coleridge Vision Statement

Mission – Learners for Life

Vision

At Coleridge we value children’s happiness and emotional wellbeing above all else. We make education fun and work hard to create firm foundations for lifelong learning. Every day we help children to enjoy the present and anticipate the future with enthusiasm and confidence.

Ethos

We do this by:

  1. Nurturing our children’s mental, physical and emotional health
  2. Having high expectations for everyone to be the best that they can be
  3. Embracing diversity, promoting inclusivity, and celebrating individuality
  4. Providing learning which sparks children’s interests and curiosity in the world around them
  5. Helping children appreciate that mistakes are part of learning and success

Coleridge Core Values

Coleridge creates children who are caring, creative and resilient in their approach to relationships, learning and life

Our Core Values in Action

Caring

Our curriculum encourages our children to be caring.

“Children understand the importance of looking after each other, our school and the environment.”

Within our curriculum

  • PSHE Curriculum – supporting children to create and maintain positive friendships and relationships, focus on caring for each other and caring for ourselves
  • Citizenship taught as a part of the PSHE curriculum looking at issues such as diversity, human rights and democracy.
  • RSE – teaching about difference in families
  • Diversity Equity and Inclusion /Commitment to being an anti-racist school/Disability awareness is a focus of our school development plan
  • Religion and World Views curriculum educating children about the personal beliefs of others, and respecting their viewpoints
  • Assemblies run on morality, kindness, respect, community, etc.
  • Geography lessons taught with a focus on environmental issues and sustainability

Around our curriculum

  • The Coleridge Buddies – Year 6 peer mentoring scheme working in KS1 and KS2
  • Children fundraising events for charitable causes
  • An annual Cultures of Coleridge week celebrating diversity across the school community
  • Warm fuzzy rewards for acts of kindness
  • Behaviour management policy focussed on conflict resolution, positive praise, supporting children to reflect and understand their behaviour by role-playing positive outcomes and regulation feelings
  • Robust approach to dealing with unkind behaviour
  • Staff model empathy, understanding and kindness in their interactions with children and colleagues.
  • Various groups run around sustainability, e.g. a Plastics Group and an Eco Committee

Creative

Our curriculum encourages our children to be creative.

“Children use their curiosity and imagination to solve problems.”

Within our curriculum

  • lessons that encourage problem solving and critical thinking
  • open-ended investigative work in science and maths
  • loose parts play (EYFS)
  • ‘In the moment’ approach in EFYS
  • well developed and exciting music curriculum offering a range of experiences for children
  • emphasis on the arts – specialist rooms and teachers to deliver subjects
  • lessons provide opportunities to work together and share thinking
  • Forest School sessions promote risk-taking and problem solving, developing empathy and team building skills

Around our curriculum

  • our annual whole school play
  • music performances performed by children and outside performers both in school and outside school
  • dance, story writing, art competitions
  • range of educational visits to galleries, museums and theatres; visits from touring operas and theatre companies
  • broad range of extra-curricular clubs for all children to participate and engage in

Resilient

Our curriculum encourages children to be resilient.

“Children are taught and encouraged to overcome obstacles equipped to be learners for life.”

Within our curriculum

  • structured play activities to promote problem solving, risk-taking and cooperation (EYFS)
  • mistakes are valued as learning opportunities
  • assemblies on perseverance, effort and reward
  • PSHE on self-management
  • Forest School sessions – problem solving and risk taking
  • excellent understanding of children’s learning and supporting them to overcome challenges, focusing on strengths
  • high expectations of all children in a none-pressurised environment
  • excellent intervention programmes in place to support children to overcome difficulties
  • every child can succeed at something – broad and balanced curriculum for children to explore many areas of learning

Around our curriculum

  • Well-being reviews held to support children both in school and at home
  • a bespoke counselling service supporting both children and our families
  • Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA) working across the school  running social skills programmes
  • outstanding pastoral support by staff
  • positive reward systems for effort and perseverance
  • mutual respect for each other and supporting others to succeed, recognising others strengths
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