Ravenstone Primary School

At Ravenstone our values of Happy, Kind, Creative, Honest and Determined shape the decisions we made and the experiences the children are offered. We have a vision where our children will reach their potential. To achieve this, we provide our pupils with the skills and knowledge to thrive in this modern world. Our curriculum is based on a mastery approach and every lesson and every experience is tailored towards ensuring that every pupil succeeds.

Strong partnerships with parents are part of our success, as is our committed community who work together to improve the school and outcomes for our children. The partnership of the Wandle Learning Trust allows us to share best practise across our family of schools and we use this to harness the most up to date research and initiatives.

Children fulfilling their potential in the heart of the community. Happy, Kind, Honest, Creative and Determined. Everything we do as a school is to achieve our vision and ensure our values are understood and lived by our pupils, staff and parents. At Ravenstone we constantly aim to fulfil the following promises

• Eliminate discrimination and other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act 2010
• Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it
• Foster good relations across all characteristics – between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it

At the heart of our curriculum is our Intent. A curriculum ‘Intent’ is another way of outlining the purpose of everything we offer children at Ravenstone. Essentially, we asked ourselves – what is the point of our curriculum at Ravenstone? As you will no doubt understand, this was a big question and needed careful exploration!

In essence, we feel that the curriculum offers THREE things. The first is that children can develop themselves – what we term OURSELVES. This relates to how our curriculum supports the development of children’s personal values, their morals, their mind-set and ensuring they are healthy, happy and enjoy school. It also covers their academic achievement. The second theme is EACH OTHER and covers how the curriculum develops the interaction between individual children and others around them. This includes the Ravenstone Values, the communication between children and the friendships which children forge with each other and their relationships with staff. The final strand is OUR FUTURE which refers to the development of children who are ready to take their place in society. This includes developing aspirations for the future and encompasses other aspects of the curriculum including the Ravenstone Entitlement and Community Spirit.

Pulling this together, we created the image you see. It is in line with values characters we already have and children should recognise it. It is displayed in all classes around the school. We are proud of the Intent as it stands and it is becoming part of our language we use in school. It is our intention that everything we teach will fit somewhere within it: either for Ourselves, Each Other or Our Future.