Grasmere Primary School London N16

Grasmere Primary School Statement of Aims

Grasmere is a successful caring community school where we believe in a process of continual self-review for school improvement and greater pupil achievement.

As we enter the 21st Century, we recognise that Grasmere Primary School exists in a fast changing world. We believe we have a key responsibility to equip our young people to take a full place in this changing world where new technologies will daily create new challenges and opportunities. Young people of the future will need many different competences: to be flexible, to be able to access new skills and knowledge, to take charge of their own learning, to work in teams, to cope with change, to be assertive and to make best use of their potential.

We believe that in order to continually improve the quality of teaching and learning and raise the achievement of our pupils, all our members of staff are entitled to appropriate training and development opportunities.

Within this framework, our values remain constant:

• To provide a supportive learning environment where each child can develop their fullest potential, emotionally, socially, physically, intellectually, creatively and spiritually.
• To create a curriculum and whole school ethos that develops positive self-image and esteem, and fosters mutual respect and understanding.
• To strive for equality of opportunity throughout our whole school community embracing all aspects of ability, race, gender, class, creed and cultural stereotyping.
• To encourage positive images, through the attitudes and expectations which we encourage and through the resources we use. We will challenge stereotyping.
• To recognise that parents are the primary educators of their children and to work with them in partnership to enhance the achievement of all children.

Within this framework, our core purposes are:

• To ensure that every child who leaves Grasmere is literate and numerate.
• To ensure that we become increasingly capable in information communication technology.
• To ensure that Grasmere pupils are actively engaged in learning and able to work well with other children and adults.
• To teach using commonly agreed and implemented teaching methods, which promote and nurture childrenís ability to: analyse, enquire and imagine, think critically and creatively, hypothesise, empathise, understand, collaborate and co-operate.
• To nurture personal responsibility and citizenship starting with our own school environment.
• To maintain links with the wider community, commerce and industry, in order to remain responsive to new developments and advances in science and technology.

We believe that our education philosophy will encourage achievement, lay sound foundations for each individual growth, development and education, and lead to their fullest participation in the world of the 21st Century as informed, creative people, capable of making informed choices and decisions.