--- title: "Vision and Values" url: "https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/visionandvalues" school: "Duke Street Primary School" --- # Vision and Values ### Our Vision Our vision is to provide a safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment where every child feels valued, happy, and secure. Through a culture of care, we inspire a love of learning that empowers our children to grow in resilience, celebrate their unique talents, and achieve their highest potential. --- ### Our Core Values Our values are: ![](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/images/Untitled_design_(3).png) 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: - **I**ndividuality - **C**ommunity - **A**spire & Achieve - **R**esilience - **E**mpathy --- #### 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 ### About Us - [Headteachers' Welcome](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/welcome) - [Vision and Values](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/visionandvalues) - [School of Sanctuary](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/visionandvalues/school-of-sanctuary) - [Art of Brilliance](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/visionandvalues/art-of-brilliance) - [Equality](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/visionandvalues/equality) - [British Values](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/visionandvalues/british-values) - [Meet Our Staff](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/meet-our-staff) - [Governors](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/governors) - [SEN & Disability Information](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/sen) - [Performance](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/performance) - [OFSTED Reports](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/ofsted-report) - [Pupil Premium](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/pupil-premium) - [Finance Benchmarking](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/finance-benchmarking) - [Nurture](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/nurture) - [Forest School](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/forest-school) - [History](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/history) - [School Centenary](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/school-centenary) - [Vacancies](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/vacancies) #### Duke Street Primary School Duke Street Chorley PR7 3DU 01257 239950 #### Useful Links - [Contact Us](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/contact) - [Ofsted Report](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/ofsted-report) - [Governors](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/governors) - [Vacancies](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/vacancies) - [SEND](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/sen) #### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/DukeStPrimary/) - [X](https://twitter.com/DukeStPrimary) © Copyright 2025–2026 Duke Street Primary School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://dukestreet-pri.lancs.sch.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)