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
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