NORTON ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL – Teaching and Learning Policy
We will provide a positive secure learning environment where:
- Our children will be safe, cared for and welcome
- Children and staff can say they enjoy learning and working together
- Visitors and parents will be able to remark about our happy, friendly, lively, visually stimulating and well organised school
- The whole school works in partnership to create an atmosphere of trust, support and respect
- Clear expectations are set and regularly enforced regarding required behaviour to ensure a purposeful working environment
- Children and staff use learning resources of good quality
- There is a focus on adding maximum value to children’s learning
We will provide a broad and balanced curriculum which:
- Meets or exceeds the requirements of the new National Curriculum 2014
- Promotes high academic standards
- Upholds good citizenship, through assemblies and weekly taught sessions to prepare children to play a positive role in our globally inter-dependent and inter-cultural society
- Teaches children to respect others and develop a set of considered moral and spiritual values
- Teaches the skills to enable children to become independent and self disciplines learners
- Sets children challenging but realistic targets for self improvement
- Utilises the International Primary Curriculum as appropriate
We will provide learning experiences and lessons which:
- Are well planned and organised
- Enable children to understand the purpose of their work and activities
- Are of interest to children, relate to their own experiences and address real life contexts and issued
- Are matched to children’s abilities and allow them to experience success
- Provide new challenges not just more of the same
The school will work closely with parents and the community to:
- Provide an annually updated prospectus which will outline the school’s values, expectations and procedures
- Ensure regular opportunities for parents to meet with their child’s teachers to discuss progress; what the child does well, what needs to be improved and targets to measure future success
- Ensure children have regular opportunities to be introduced to members of the community as part of their learning
- Enable children to have the opportunity for at least two educational visits outside the school each year and the opportunity to take part in a residential visit in their junior years
- Provide parents with regular opportunities to work alongside their children both in and out of school to promote successful learning
- Offer at least two opportunities each term for parents to come into school and watch their child perform and celebrate their child’s success
Each child and adult will be:
- Valued as in individual and know that his or her cultural heritage is respected
- Have his or her own strengths, interests and talents recognised and nurtured
- Taught to have a positive attitude and respect for others
- Assured equality of opportunity to achieve the full breadth of his or her potential
- Supported and nurtured to develop confidence, a positive self image and hold a high self-esteem
Out teachers and staff:
- Believe they will have a powerful impact on each child’s learning
- Have high expectations of themselves and for all children
- Care about all our children and go out of their way to help them
- Serve as positive role models
- Are committed to equality of opportunity for all
- Design tasks that are relevant, of interest and challengingly achievable