Our School Vision
"Ready to learn. Ready to thrive. Ready for tomorrow."
At Egerton we aspire to create an inclusive environment where all students and staff can flourish. We strive to nurture curious minds, so that all children leave school as confident, compassionate and globally aware citizens.
R - Resilient
We want our children to embrace challenges and be equipped with the knowledge, skills and resilience they need to flourish.
E - Engaged
We want our children to be engaged and inquisitive in their learning.
A - Achieve Excellence
We want our children to achieve excellence through an ambitious curriculum and amazing learning opportunities.
D - Discover
We want our children to be keen to discover their creativity.
Y - Young Global Citizens
We want our children to leave school as confident, compassionate and globally aware citizens.
Our vision is lived out everyday through the following 6 aspects:
- Identity - children need to feel connected to their school and its community
- Inclusion - Intellectual and social equality between adults and all children
- Relationships - we all invest time in each other and act according to our values; Trust, Honesty, Empathy, Kindness, Compassion, Respect and Dignity
- Self-determining - know yourself to enable you to appreciate and know others
- Disruptive pedagogy - reflective and evaluative practice
- Outcomes - secondary ready, socially sensitive and responsive
To learn more please see our 'Vision in Practice' document on this page.
We also recognise that children need to understand the importance of a strong work ethic by being engaged in their learning, through curiosity and use of higher order thinking skills to develop perseverance, resilience and independence so they are confident to tackle challenges. Hence, this is achieved through our vision of ‘Every Day Matters’.
Our School Aims
We aim to provide a safe, welcoming and stimulating environment by:
- Warmly welcoming children into school and class each day
- Providing children with opportunities to talk
- Listening to what the children have to say
- Utilising both the immediate school environment and the wider environment to stimulate and aid teaching and learning
- Accentuating the positive at all times
- Aiming to improve and enrich the indoor and outdoor learning environments
- Providing a secure building and learning environment
- Promoting e safety
We aim to raise standards by:
- Striving to meet the needs of all children
- Having high expectations of behaviour and attainment for all
- Recognising and celebrating the achievements of all children
- Providing a broad, balanced, challenging, enriched and fun-filled skills-based curriculum
- Embracing new technology
- Providing high quality teaching using a variety of teaching styles and strategies
- Setting appropriate targets and monitoring and assessing children’s progress
- Sharing expertise throughout the school and the wider community
- Providing necessary training and time for reflection to achieve high quality teaching and learning
We aim to develop children’s self-respect and respect for others by:
- Accentuating the positive at all times
- Nurturing a child’s self-esteem and self-worth
- Ensuring that all children are treated and valued equally regardless of background culture or belief
- Encouraging children to respond positively towards each other, adults around them and to the diversity of modern society
- All adults involved in the life of the school act as positive role models
- Providing consistent reinforcement of good behaviour
We aim to develop children’s independence and ability to think by:
- encouraging children to question
- providing opportunities for children to discuss issues rationally
- providing opportunities for children to develop their own strategies to work and act independently
- encouraging a sense of responsibility for their own learning
- providing opportunities for children to work collaboratively and co-operatively with their peers
- involving children in the decision making processes of the school and provide them with opportunities to take on responsible roles in the life of the school
- encouraging children to use technology wisely
We aim to help children to recognise their roles and responsibilities by:
- encouraging all children to develop a sense of ownership of their learning environment and learn to respect it and care for it
- involve the children in the in decision making processes through the school council
- encourage children to consider their impact upon the school, local and global environment
- being responsive and accepting of consequences for their own actions
We aim to help children to adopt a healthy lifestyle:
- by providing high quality physical education and a range of sporting after school clubs
- by providing healthy school lunches and snacks
- promoting physical and emotional health by providing accessible and relevant information and equipping pupils with the skills and attitudes to make informed decisions about their health to achieve a balanced lifestyle
- by encouraging them to have a healthy interest in personalised learning, targets and achievements
- by providing both a physical and social environment that is conducive to learning
Equality at Egerton Primary School
We welcome our duties under the Equality Act 2010. The school’s general duties, with regards to equality are:
- Eliminating discrimination.
- Fostering good relationships.
- Advancing equality of opportunity.
There are the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act. We will not discriminate against, harass or victimise any pupil, prospective pupil, or other member of the school community because of their:
- Age.
- Gender.
- Race.
- Disability.
- Religion or belief.
- Sexual orientation.
- Gender reassignment.
- Pregnancy or maternity.
- Marriage and civil partnership.
Egerton Primary School aims to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development, with special emphasis on promoting equality, diversity and eradicating prejudicial incidents for pupils and staff. Our school is committed to not only eliminating discrimination, but also increasing understanding and appreciation for diversity. Our ethos, curriculum plan and daily lived experience reflects this.
We are a Rights Respecting School
Egerton Ambassadors
There are four key areas of impact for children at a Rights Respecting school; wellbeing, participation, relationships and self-esteem. The difference that a Rights Respecting School makes goes beyond the school gates, making a positive impact on the whole community.
- Children are healthier and happier
- Children feel safe
- Children have better relationships
- Children become active and involved in school life and the wider world
Children's rights are embedded into our curriculum and directly linked to themes.
Our School councillors are in Y6 and work with the rest of the ambassadors to have a voice in school life.
How does it work?
Every child in Years 1 to 6 are Ambassadors. This approach is designed to ensure that all children have a voice and can work in a collaborative way to identify an area they want to explore and identify action to make a difference. Both children and staff have chosen freely which group they would like to join.
Staff use the FIDS for kids approach advocated by the global charity ‘Design for Change’. The FIDS framework helps to develop the much required 21st Century Skills in children, builds their social and emotional competencies and promotes employability skills. The most unique feature of the Design for Change initiative is that it is not only simple and constructive, it is open-source, accessible, adaptable and replicable.
FEEL – This approach encourages children to feel from their hearts, observe what bothers them and what they would like to see changed. Reflect on what they see and what they feel in their lives, their school, their community and the world. Identify a challenge they would like to solve.
IMAGINE – Children involved in brainstorming and visualising original and innovative solutions to their identified challenge. It begins with lots of fun to open their minds and fire up their imagination. Children are encouraged to be empathetic with those involved. Think beyond merely raising awareness using the QBL approach:
- Quick Impact
- Bold
- Long Lasting
DO – Putting ideas into action. Skills involved include critical thinking, planning, and documentation. Create a plan of action using the ‘How? How?’ tool – constantly asking how for each action. Assign responsibilities based on strengths. Reach out to professionals, organisations, adults etc. All their work will be saved in their floor book. Reflection – what 3 things have been learnt about their situation, what 2 things have they learnt about their team mates and what 1 things have they learnt about themselves. How can it be sustained?
SHARE – Once a project is complete the share to encourage other children to believe ‘I can’. Expand your circle of influence and create a spirit of abundance. Begin by sharing in school in assembly, with parents and on social media.