Cayley Primary School

We are a happy and healthy school and believe that everyone should be valued for his or her individuality, culture and heritage and that they are encouraged to achieve their full potential in a stimulating, challenging and caring environment and we’re only able to achieve this through a strong partnership between home and school. We will help our children to achieve their potential as a member of our school community where all children are respected and valued. By working together, your child will leave Cayley with a life-long love of learning and well prepared for the challenges ahead.

Our Vision is to Empower Cayley's Community to Explore and Excite in the pursuit of Excellence, through our Values of: Respect, Integrity, Diversity, Creativity, Resilience, Teamwork, Nurturing and Wellbeing. Our Equality objectives are

• To promote spiritual, moral, social and cultural development through all appropriate curricular and extra-curricular opportunities. We aim to meet this objective with particular reference to issues of equality and diversity.
• To reduce prejudice and increase understanding of equality through direct teaching across the curriculum.
• To move beyond deterministic notions of fixed ability and to model teaching and learning behaviours that avoid labelling.
• To narrow the gap between boys’ and girls’ attainment in writing in the primary phase (Y2 – Y6).
• To promote cultural development and understanding through a rich range of experience, both in and beyond the school.
• To eradicate prejudice related bullying in relation to the protected characteristics listed in the Equality Act 2010.
• To tackle prejudice and promote understanding in relation to people with disabilities.

Cayley is a three-form entry primary school, based in the heart of Stepney. We work together with our community to prepare our children for a successful future in the real world. We strive for excellence through exploration and an excitment for learning

We encourage pupils to explore the world around them through practical exploration and discovery. Pupils are given the opportunity to learn through cooking, become fit and healthy through PE lessons and after-school clubs and we are beginning a programme of forest school learning. At the core of our curriculum is the belief that all pupils must become avid and expert readers. We are very effective at teaching pupils this skill and have high expectations of pupils reading for pleasure at home daily.

BV The Cayley Primary Curriculum (CPC) is all the planned activities that we organise in order to promote learning, personal growth and development. It includes not only the formal requirements of the National Curriculum, but also the range of extra-curricular activities that the school organises in order to enrich the experiences of all our children at Cayley Primary School. It also includes the ‘hidden curriculum’, or what the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. We aim to teach children to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others while developing knowledge and skills, so that they achieve their true potential.