Bishop Justus Church Of England School

Welcome to Bishop Justus Church of England School Our motto at Bishop Justus is Success through Faith, Love and Learning and this underpins all of the work we do with our young people from year 6 transition to sending students onto further education, apprenticeships and the world of work.

We nurture all of our students to know their identity is rooted in the love that God has for them. They are encouraged to have faith and hope in themselves and the others in our community.

We pride ourselves in the active, intentional and ongoing engagement with differences in a purposeful manner. The success in society as a rounded individual is based on the love that we demonstrate when we work closely together.

At our school, we value the ways in which pedagogy, curricula and assessment are designed and delivered to engage students in learning that is meaningful, relevant and accessible to all. It embraces a view of the individual and individual difference as the source of diversity that can enrich the lives and learning of others.

We have the ability to function with awareness, knowledge and interpersonal skills when engaging people of different backgrounds, assumptions, beliefs, values and behaviours. The students’ learning surpasses just the knowledge acquisition, which is invaluable, but also extends to the value we place on those who have contributed to that knowledge development.

Vision and Ethos Statement
At Bishop Justus we seek to educate the whole person, so that each child will be able to live ‘life in all its fullness’ (John 10:10). We want each child to flourish academically and to realise their potential. This is enabled by an excellent education, a broad and balanced curriculum, with a rich variety of experiences that extend beyond the classroom. We want our children to succeed, in the widest possible sense, using their God given talents fully. We adopt the Church of England’s Vision for Education in our own distinctive way. We have an emphasis on faith, hope and love, knowing as St. Paul said that ‘the greatest of these is love’. We believe that there is truth and meaning to life and that education is a lifelong quest to search for truth. We offer every child hope that they can be the best they can be; faith in themselves, others and God; and most importantly we care for our students because they are children of God. We want our whole community of learners to model core virtues in their lives by being kind and caring in all they do. We expect our students to be wisdom seeking, to work hard together, to develop relationships based in love (agape) so that they treat themselves and others with dignity and respect in all situations. Their learning is life transforming and is one that equips them for the future world. We achieve…

Ethos
We want our students to have a strong character and be aspirational. The virtues we hope to nurture in our students are many, but in particular these: faith, hope, love, wisdom, courage and kindness. Of all our virtues we emphasise the virtue of love, a love that is perfectly exemplified through the words and actions of Jesus Christ. We want to develop our students to be hard-working and thoughtful individuals who care for themselves and others. Rigorous academic skills and a strong work ethic need to go hand in hand with compassion and empathy in the character of a Bishop Justus student. We base our virtues on Christian teachings rooted in the Bible. These virtues are shared human virtues that can be embraced by all, whether religious or not. Students will develop and strengthen their character through their journey together at Bishop Justus, so that when they leave, they do so as young adults equipped with Christian virtues that will support them for life. They will have received an education that has nurtured them into becoming well-rounded individuals that have strong characters that enable them to live ‘life in all its fullness.