Our School Values
Determination
Resilience
Tolerance
Cooperation
Creativity
Curiosity
Determination
Determination is never giving up, you try again and again to succeed in what you are trying to achieve or do
Determination is setting goals and working towards them
Determination is asking for help
Determination is about trying your best
Determination is being prepared to struggle on when things go wrong
Determination is being prepared to make mistakes and persevere to get things right and learn from the mistake.
Resilience
Resilience is not giving up even when things are difficult and maintaining a positive mindset.
Resilience is embracing challenge and understanding that we can learn from setbacks.
Resilience is being able to withstand stress.
Resilience is bouncing back.
Resilience helps me to feel confident.
Resilience is about learning from mistakes and reflecting on what has happened
Resilience is about maintaining focus on something.
Tolerance
Tolerance is the idea that we understand people in our community may believe different things to us,
Tolerance is about accepting other people’s right to believe in what they want to believe in and not impose our own beliefs on them
Tolerance is about not judging other people
Tolerance is about appreciating differences in people.
Cooperation
Cooperation is working together to get something done.
Cooperation is talking and agreeing how to do something
Cooperation is being helpful and doing your bit to sort something out. Children need to think about how they need to co-operate and work together as a team to achieve goals.
Co-operation is – teamwork, interacting and joining in,
Cooperation is listening and respecting each other,
Cooperation is lending each other a helping hand and not letting other people down
Cooperation is about trust, support and sharing each other’s ideas.
Creativity
Creativity is about producing new work or ideas
Creativity implies taking risks, challenging assumptions, exploring new ideas and experimenting.
Creativity is about gaining different ideas and learning from mistakes.
Creativity is also about being able to look at a problem, research ideas and develop solutions.
Creativity involves looking at familiar things with a fresh eye, examining problems with an open mind, making connections, learning from mistakes and using imagination to explore new possibilities.
Creativity is about allowing children to make choices about how their learning.
Curiosity
Curiosity is about investigating
Curiosity is about having a thirst for learning at school and beyond.
Curiosity is about a desire to learn something new
Curiosity is about asking lots of questions
Curiosity is being interested and engaged in learning new things
Curiosity is using our thinking skills to be creative and critical.