St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary School

The Federation of St John’s & St Paul’s Whitechapel CE Primary Schools was established in September 2014. The schools have a shared vision to provide a learning community that is caring, inclusive and supportive with a distinctive Christian ethos, and where every child is a valued member.

We believe that every child is an important individual and we strive to ensure that each day is a day for your child to learn new skills and develop their potential. We have high expectations and are ambitious for our children to succeed. We believe that people learn in a variety of different ways and that teaching should reflect this. We provide a rich and varied learning environment that enables our children to succeed and flourish now, in their next stage of education and in the wider community.

We aim to

• Offer a secure and caring environment.
• Recognize and develop each individual’s strengths and talents.
• Enable children to become confident, resourceful, enquiring and independent learners.
• Foster children's self-esteem and help them build positive relationships with other people.
• Develop children's self-respect and encourage children to respect the ideas, attitudes, values and feelings of others.
• Show respect for all cultures and, in so doing, promote positive attitudes towards other people
• Enable children to understand their community and help them feel valued as part of this community
• Help children grow into reliable, independent and positive citizens.
• Offer a broad and balanced curriculum catering for individual needs regardless of race, creed, gender or disability within the National Curriculum requirements.

Of course we prioritise the teaching of English, mathematics and the other areas of the curriculum, but we place great importance on instilling the skills and attitudes that will equip our pupils as they continue their education, and their lives, in a world where the future is so unpredictable, skills and attitudes such as confidence, self-esteem, resilience, determination, collaboration, decision making and creativity.

The staff at both schools have high expectations; we are extremely ambitious for our pupils to succeed. We ask the children to work hard and try their best in all things. They do and they are the real strength of our school.

We want our children to be happy here as we believe happy children learn. Our staff work extremely hard to ensure our pupils get a high quality education. Our results highlight the good work that is carried out. We want our children to grow up learning how to be good citizens and contribute to society knowing that they have a big role to play. Furthermore, we want our children to learn about being healthy – we are one of a small number of schools in the borough that provide lessons on cookery and nutrition. We even have our own chicken coop and bee hive.

St John’s and St Paul’s Whitechapel Church of England Primary School provide a caring, inclusive and supportive community, with a distinctive Christian environment and ethos, of which all children and staff are valued members. We have high expectations and are ambitious for our children. We believe that people learn in a variety of different ways and that teaching should reflect this. We provide a rich and varied learning environment that offers our children and staff every opportunity to succeed and flourish, now and in the future.

At St. Paul's we know that our relationship with the parents and carers of our children is incredibly important. We recognise it as an essential factor in helping to develop the holistic learning of the children at our school and a way of engaging with our local community.