Our School

Mission Statement

Our Vision

Our ‘School Vision’ is what we would like everyone involved in our school to understand, share and aspire to achieve for the benefit of all our pupils, now and in the future.

At Netherbrook Primary School...

Our Pupils are unique, vibrant and valued individuals; who all make a valid and important contribution to school life. They are encouraged to be polite, happy and responsible individuals, who respect others and always try their best. Pupils are motivated and active learners, who aspire to achieve their full potential in all that they do. They are creative and imaginative and persevere to overcome any difficulties that they may face.

Our Staff aspire to be inspirational role models for our pupils. They are approachable, supportive and have a strong desire to ensure all our pupils leave Netherbrook equipped to be lifelong learners. Staff are encouraged to be creative and adventurous in their lessons and are supported in channelling their efforts for the greater good of our pupils. Staff are open and professional in all that they do and work hard to deliver the best possible education for our pupils.

Our Governors are supportive and challenging of the school leadership team and the staff. They are proactive, critical friends who ensure that the pupils receive the best quality of education possible. Through working together with all stakeholders they support the creativity and vision of the Netherbrook team. They share in our successes and constantly challenge us to improve, ensuring the pupils at Netherbrook thrive and fulfil their true potential.

Our Parents work in close partnership with the school. They value their children’s education, teach them to work hard and achieve their best. They provide a strong support network for the pupils. They are committed to enriching their children’s lives and work alongside the school, fostering an atmosphere of mutual trust, respect and collaboration, to ensure all of our pupils achieve their very best.

Our Local Community embraces our school, its ethos and values. They offer safety, security, co-operation and support; creating strong links with the school and its pupils and offering a stable and vibrant community for our pupils to learn in. Our community is fully involved with the school and its pupils and invests in them to help our children be truly proud of where they are from. Their involvement enables our pupils to become conscientious, respectful and active members of their local community.

This vision is aspirational. It is what we want to achieve through hard work and dedication to giving the pupils of this school the absolute best start in life.

We hope that all parents and children who come to Netherbrook will share these aims

Our Values

It is our aim to find effective ways of developing our pupils’ aspirations, their sense of identity, self-worth and belonging, appreciating the world around them, taking responsibility and becoming conscious of choices they make.

Our school is built upon our values of:

Cooperation

Friendship

Honesty

Respect

Learning

Perseverance

Our aim is to foster the intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual development of all our pupils. We believe that children need a caring, consistent environment where they are treated with respect and where their well-being is seen as paramount. We believe that our pupils should leave Netherbrook with: A sense of moral and spiritual awareness, a love of learning and a sense of where they belong.

Our key values of cooperation, friendship, honesty, respect, learning and perseverance are developed through our school curriculum. Aspects of social, moral, spiritual and cultural development are linked to topic themes and developed through assemblies and whole school routines, projects and focus days.

British Values

The DfE reinforced the need 'to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.'

The Government set out its definition of British values in the 2015 Prevent Strategy. At Netherbrook Primary School, these values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways.

Democracy

Netherbrook Primary School is proud to be a UN ICEF Rights Respecting school. (Silver Award) Children have many opportunities for their voices to be heard. We have a school council when each class from year one to year six elects a school councillor. This school councillor is then part of the school council and everyone meets together at least once each half term.

The School Council gives our pupils a voice – their opinions are asked and listened to, and their views considered.

The Rule of Law

The importance of Laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced throughout regular school days, as well as when dealing with behaviour and through school assemblies. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken.

Visits from authorities such as the Police, Ambulance and the Fire Service help reinforce this message.

Liberty

Within school, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for young pupils to make choices safely, through provision of a safe environment and empowering education.

Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our E-Safety lessons. Whether it be through choice of learning challenge, of how they record, of participation in our extra-curricular clubs and opportunities, pupils are given the freedom to make choices.

Mutal Respect

As a Rights Respecting School, mutual respect is at the heart of our values at Netherbrook. Children learn that their behaviours influence their own rights and those of others. All members of the school community treat each other with respect. At Netherbrook, we have playground buddies and anti-bullying ambassadors (Diana Award) to encourage our children to be happy and healthy with active playtimes and always someone to play with.

Tolerance of Different Faiths and Beliefs

Netherbrook Primary School places a great emphasis on promoting diversity with the children. Assemblies are regularly planned to address this issue either directly or through the inclusion of stories and celebrations from a variety of faiths and cultures. Our RE, PSHE and RRSA teaching reinforce this. Members of different faiths or religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance learning within classes.

At Netherbrook Primary School we will actively challenge pupils, staff or parents expressing opinions contrary to fundamental British Values, including ‘extremist’ views. Discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated at Netherbrook and we aim to ensure all of our pupils are open minded, tolerant and respectful of all people in our society.