Core Values
The school I CARE core values have been articulated after consultation with pupils, parents, teachers and governors. I CARE is mnemonic for Individuality, Community, Aspire & Achieve, Resilience, Empathy
These core values underpin everything we are striving to achieve as a school.
Duke Street Primary School aims to:
- provide a secure, caring and stimulating learning environment,
- promote self-discipline, moral values and self-esteem,
- set challenging yet realistic goals in order to allow each child and member of staff to reach his or her potential
- encourage an enthusiastic attitude to learning through a well-balanced and varied curriculum.
- work in partnership with parents to provide the best for each child in order to get the best from each child
- offer colleagues an enjoyable, positive environment in which to work, fostering both team commitment and the well-being of everyone within our school.
Principles for Learning and Teaching
At Duke Street we will:
- set high expectations and give every learner confidence they can succeed
- raise learner’s aspirations
- secure the active support of parents in their children’s learning and encourage children to extend learning beyond school
- demonstrate a commitment to every learner’s success, making them feel included, valued and secure
- establish what the children know and build on it
- set, share and display learning objectives, explaining them and making every learning experience count
- create secure foundations for subsequent learning
- structure and pace learning experiences to make them challenging and enjoyable
- include visual, auditory and kinaesthetic activities
- set up classroom environments which encourage children’s independence
- provide opportunities to solve problems
- make creative use of range of learning opportunities available, within and beyond the classroom, including ICT
- inspire through passion for the subject
- bring the subject alive
- value contributions from the wider community
- make it relevant to the learner’s wider goals and concerns
- make individuals active partners in their learning
- promote reflection and evaluation with regards to how they learn and what they have learned
- build respectful teacher-learner relationships that take learners’ views and experience fully into account
- use assessment for learning to inform subsequent planning and practice
- develop learning skills and personal qualities
- develop the ability to think systematically and manage information,
- learn with others, from others and help others learn
