Mosspits Lane Primary School

Welcome to Mosspits Lane Primary School. Mosspits Lane Primary School has a caring, stimulating and friendly atmosphere in which every member of the school feels safe, is valued and is treated with respect.

Vision And Values
Our vision and values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning, and provide an environment which prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens. Our school mission statement: Nurture through respect, Inspire through creativity, Succeed beyond expectations.

Our school mission statement
We will:

• Nurture through respect,
• Inspire through creativity,
• Succeed beyond expectations.

Mosspits Lane Primary School is committed to serving its community and surrounding areas. We recognise the multi-cultural, multi-faith and ever-changing nature of the United Kingdom, and therefore those it serves.

Mosspits Lane Primary School accepts admissions from all those entitled to an education under British law, including pupils of all faiths or none. It follows the policies outlined by its governing body regarding equal opportunities, which guarantee that there will be no discrimination against any individual or group, regardless of faith, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, political or financial status, or similar. It seeks to serve all.

The Government emphasizes that schools are required to ensure that key ‘British Values’ are taught in all UK schools. They define the fundamental British values as follows:

• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect
• Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

We teach British Values through a wide range of activities, some of these are implicit within the National and School Curricula, others are taught through explicit British Values lessons as part of the PSHEe program of study.

We are all happy on our Early Years Quality Mark, Basic Skills Award, Dyslexia Award, Liverpool Counts Silver Quality Mark, Liverpool Reads Gold Quality Mark, Rights Respecting Schools, Investors in Pupils.

The school curriculum is based on two elements: The Early Years Foundation Stage framework (Reception classes), The National Curriculum for Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) and Key Stage 2 (Years 3, 4, 5 and 6).

At Mosspits Lane Primary School, we use the DfE's programme of study for English (2014) to underpin our teaching of Writing across KS1 and The programmes of study for writing at key stages 1 and 2 are constructed similarly to those for reading:

• Transcription (spelling and handwriting)
• Composition (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech and writing)

In addition, pupils should be taught how to plan, revise and evaluate their writing. These aspects of writing have been incorporated into the programmes of study for composition.

Writing down ideas fluently depends on effective transcription: that is, on spelling quickly and accurately through knowing the relationship between sounds and letters (phonics) and understanding the morphology (word structure) and orthography (spelling structure) of words.

Effective composition involves articulating and communicating ideas, and then organising them coherently for a reader. This requires clarity, awareness of the audience, purpose and context, and an increasingly wide knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. Writing also depends on fluent, legible and, eventually, speedy handwriting.