Heston Primary School

Heston is and will remain a strongly cohesive school with students coming from a variety of heritages and backgrounds. They flourish in our outstanding learning environment, developing respect and understanding for each other, thus ensuring they are well prepared for their adult lives.

The academic success of students at Heston is underpinned by the traditional values of hard work, resilience and impeccable behaviour that is conducive to establishing good working habits. The excellent attitude of our students is supported by highly experienced teachers with a track record of securing both outstanding examination results and providing a pastoral system that leaves no child behind. The progress that our students make consistently places Heston among the top schools in the country for value added.

Although we take great pride in our high achievers, we are particularly proud that ALL of our students leave with sound qualifications on which to build their futures.In addition, we aim to develop skills and qualities that prepare our students for life beyond school; become effective members of the community with the confidence to take advantage of all the opportunities available to them and the awareness and willingness to contribute.

Our mission is to instil, in all stakeholders, a passion for lifelong learning and the courage to learn from mistakes.Our Vision is to provide a learning community that provides a safe and nurturing environment, with an atmosphere of high expectations, creating ambitious, successful and responsible young adults able and willing to contribute to society; a community that ensures all stakeholders are valued and contribute to the future success of the School.

VISION AND VALUES

Our mission is to instil, in all stakeholders, a passion for lifelong learning and the courage to learn from mistakes.

Our vision is to sustain a learning community that provides a safe and nurturing environment, which develops high expectations, creating ambitious, successful, responsible and informed young adults; able and willing to make a positive contribution to society; a community that ensures all stakeholders are valued and contribute to the future success of the School and the community that it serves.

Our aims are:

• To nurture students to become positive role models in the community; achieve in the top 10% of similar schools and progress to the best universities or employment
• To be the preferred employer by providing an exciting, challenging and fulfilling working environment
• To be the school of choice for parents to entrust the education of their children
• To contribute to a community for whom we are a partner of choice in improving the life chances of young adults.

Our core values, underpinning the attitudes and behaviours of our School Community, are respect, equality, resilience, ambition and honesty.

Heston Community School believes strongly that learning extends well beyond the classroom and that an outstanding education should offer all students an extensive range of enrichment activities which will support them to be successful in life. Alongside an academically rigorous, challenging and thought provoking curriculum, extra-curricular activities, taking place during lunchtime and after school, are on offer. These activities provide opportunities for students to learn new skills, make new friendships and develop their confidence, teamwork and communication skills.