Northview Primary School

We believe that independent learners become successful members of society. We offer a warm welcome to you. We have high aspirations for all of our pupils and aim to instill a love of learning, which they can carry with them through their lives.

We take great pride in our diverse community, valuing every child as an individual. We strive to ensure that all of our children achieve their full potential in learning and life skills, in order to become valuable contributors to their community and to a global society.

At Northview we aim to nurture children to become independent learners with positive attitudes that help them to succeed and inspire others. This encourages self - respect and respect for others promoting success and a desire to achieve excellence.

Our 'Inspire' values are

• Inspiration – in our school we encourage children to be an inspiration to each other and to learn in partnership
• Nurturing – we aim to provide a happy, safe, caring and stimulating environment that nurtures excellence in learning
• Success – we encourage all children to achieve the highest standards in all that they do
• Positivity – we aim to encourage all children to believe in their ability to succeed and achieve their goals
• Independence – we believe that all children should become independent, critical thinkers with the ability to express their own views
• Respect – through respecting themselves and other people we achieve respect as valued members of the community
• Excellence – we use our daily learning to shape the path that we take tomorrow to achieve excellence

We believe that Northview Primary School owes its existence to the learners in it. We are here to help all our learners to achieve their fullest possible potential for their self-development.

Every attempt is made to base our practices and procedures on the fundamental belief that all learners have the same rights irrespective of their current education attainment, racial origin, creed, gender, physical ability or cultural background.

The school aims to develop and implement educational practices, which regard learners as active participants and not as passive recipients. We also regard the active learning and teaching approaches as an important means of producing critically thinking, self-respecting, self-disciplined, literate, numerate and well-balanced young people who will be able to have access to a range of opportunities in the years to follow.

We aim to continually seek ways and means of developing close and positive working relationships with parents and the communities around us. We aim to ensure that we communicate effectively to all our learners that we value them. We believe that only by doing so, will our learners become adults who respect and value other human beings around them.

We aim to promote a learning environment in which learners are motivated and have the self-confidence to raise questions and evaluate their own work and attainments. This atmosphere will ensure that the learners show their highest levels of achievement through a positive response to the tasks set. We aim to ensure that every learner leaving our school is confident, happy and healthy and able to take full advantage of the educational opportunities offered to them.

As required by Law, all our pupils are taught the National Curriculum for Literacy and Mathematics. Work is differentiated to provide stimulus and challenge and to ensure that all can access the Curriculum. We believe that children learn to make mathematical connections through an investigative approach and this is a feature of the teaching of Mathematics at Northview Primary School. We believe in a creative approach towards Literacy and that by encouraging children to form and extend ideas and opinions, we can give them the confidence to express themselves in their Writing. We aim to develop of love of reading by providing a wide ranging and stimulating Curriculum.

Phonics is a method of teaching children to learn to read and to spell words. At Northview, children learn to read phonetically and by word recognition. Children learn the sounds of the individual letters (and sometimes clusters of letters) in the English language and to blend them to make the word sound. Phonics teaching begins in the Nursery and it continues until the end of Year 2 unless the needs of the child are such that further phonics teaching is required.