Vision

Our vision is to create an outstanding primary school for our community - a school where all pupils and staff can be the best they can be, feel happy and cared for, included and celebrated. We aim to use this opportunity to develop an environment that provides the highest quality of care and education possible for the children of this generation and the generations that follow.

Our parents and carers are an important part of our school community. We will work hard to provide them with the best support and guidance and involve them in all aspects of school life.

Both the Infant and Junior school have already established some shared core values. These are Care, Respect, Learn and Succeed. We feel that the joining of the two schools will allow us to develop a deeper understanding of what these mean for us as a school community.

We will ensure that teaching across all year groups is of a high quality and that the curriculum is exciting, well planned and effective. We will do this by sharing the expertise that already exists within both teams. The primary school will continue to develop opportunities for the staff to network with other professionals, participate in research projects and have access to high quality ongoing professional development.

Our amalgamation will create stronger teams to promote inclusion and support in areas such as Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Mental Health and Wellbeing and pupils with English as an additional language. This will allow us to work in a more effective way to support our pupils and their families too.

We will use our extensive site to its fullest, creating more opportunities for the children in areas such as sport, the arts and environmental science.

We will encourage children to identify their areas of interests and to pursue them further through enrichment opportunities such as workshops and clubs.

We will create more opportunities for pupils and staff to make a positive contribution to the school and the wider community by linking up with local groups and enterprise initiatives. We will develop the work of our School Council and Eco Warrior teams, and promote citizenship and charity projects.

We will continue to develop the opportunities the children have with the local secondary schools, such as the Sports Partnership activities with Ashton on Mersey High School. We will build on the partnership work already in place with these schools to help to prepare children for the next stage of their school journey and support effective transitions into Year 7.

We are committed to continuing our work in supporting the training and development of the profession beyond our own school. We will continue to develop our partnerships with other professional bodies such as the Bright Futures Teaching School Hub, Turing Maths Hub. We will work with colleges and universities in the North West to support their NVQ and Initial Teacher Training programmes and professional development programmes for school staff. 

We aim to use the transition period to involve all of our pupils, staff, governors and parents as well as community partners to enable this vision to evolve.

 

Read the next section - Advantages of amalgamation