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

Around our curriculum:

  • The Coleridge Buddies are a Year 6 peer mentoring scheme, who work in KS1 and KS2
  • Children organise fundraising events for charitable causes
  • An annual Cultures of Coleridge week celebrates diversity across the school community
  • Warm fuzzy rewards are given for acts of kindness
  • Our behaviour management policy focuses on conflict resolution, positive praise, supporting children to reflect and understand their behaviour by role-playing positive outcomes and regulating feelings
  • We have a 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 encourage problem solving and critical thinking
  • We use open-ended investigative work in science and maths
  • We have ‘loose parts’ play in the EYFS
  • We adopt the ‘In the moment’ approach in EYFS
  • Our well developed and exciting music curriculum offers a range of experiences for children
  • We place huge emphasis on the arts, with specialist rooms and teachers to deliver the 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:

  • We put on an annual school play involving the whole community
  • Music performances are presented by children and outside performers, both inside and outside school
  • We have regular dance, story writing, and art competitions
  • There are a range of educational visits to galleries, museums and theatres, as well as visits from touring operas and theatre companies
  • We offer a 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:

  • The EYFS uses structured play activities to promote problem solving, risk-taking and cooperation
  • Mistakes are valued as learning opportunities
  • Assemblies are delivered on perseverance, effort and reward
  • There PSHE lessons on self-management
  • Forest School sessions focus on problem solving and risk taking
  • Staff have an excellent understanding of children’s learning and support them to overcome challenges, by focusing on their strengths
  • We have high expectations of all children in a none-pressurised environment
  • We deliver excellent intervention programmes to support children to overcome difficulties
  • We know that every child can succeed at something so offer a broad and balanced curriculum for children to explore many areas of learning

Around our curriculum:

  • Well-being reviews are held to support children, both in school and at home
  • We offer a bespoke counselling service to support both children and our families
  • Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA) work across the school, running social skills programmes
  • We pride ourselves on outstanding pastoral support from staff
  • There are positive reward systems for effort and perseverance
  • Children and staff have mutual respect for each other, and support others to succeed, recognising everyone’s strengths