Core Values


The school I CARE core values have been articulated after consultation with pupils, parents, teachers and governors. These core values underpin everything we are striving to achieve as a school. I CARE is a mnemonic for:

  • Individuality
  • Community
  • Aspire & Achieve
  • Resilience
  • Empathy

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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