Winton Primary School

We welcome you to our school where we believe that every child should have the chance to learn, achieve, develop confidence and ‘make their mark’.

We are committed to providing a broad, balanced and enjoyable education for all children within a supportive and caring environment. We strongly believe that it is important for all members of our school community to treat each other with respect; and to inspire each other to succeed. At our school, we do not settle for second best and we aspire for every child to achieve highly and to develop the confidence and skills to ‘make their mark’ and become a life-long learner!

What our children experience is positive role models and strong relationships – with adults and each other, a thought provoking curriculum that secures high standards in the basic skills as well as the range of subject, developing cultural capital, life skills and academic excellence in a variety of subject areas, an understanding of the importance of hard work and a growth mindset to be successful.

What our children will achieve is high standards across the curriculum, an understanding of what it looks like to be good citizens, an awareness of the possibilities and opportunities that will be available to them in life – we want all our children to know they can be successful.

What our school will look like, feel like, and sound like on a daily basis is happy pupils and adults celebrating the great work and learning of all, welcoming, warm, positive, fun and polite, a buzz around learning and achievement, respectful conversations, support and challenge – focused on everyone learning together.

Values and The School Creed:

• We believe that to have a good future
• We must try our best in the present
• We believe in working hard, learning from our failures, and celebrating our successes
• We believe in resilience, kindness, good manners and respect
• We know that we are safe
• At Winton we are proud of who we are

All maintained schools in England we will be required by government to teach the revised National Curriculum from September 2014.

The Early Years Team at Winton are the Nursery and Reception Class. The classes in the school are named after the planets in the solar system. Reception is the beginning of a child’s learning journey. Skills that they use as they grow and progress are based in the Early Years. The reception class is called Sun Class because their learning revolves around the key experiences and skills they receive in Reception, just as the solar system revolves around the sun. Our Nursery is called Little Stars, as they are their own little suns waiting to grow and develop.

The Early Years Team are committed to creating a love of learning in all children our aims are:

• To provide a broad and balanced curriculum for every child to develop the building blocks for future learning
• To plan a curriculum that is relevant, fun and based on real experience
• To provide first hand experiences to put their learning into context
• To provide a safe and secure learning environment
• To develop confidence , independence and self esteem
• To encourage and motivate children to become independent learners
• To support children on the first steps of their learning journey
• To provide a free flow curriculum where learning happens inside and outside
• Take children interests and use them to plan relevant activities
• To provide children with a secure grounding in preparation for year 1

We believe the curriculum should reflect the needs of all learners and ensure that pupils are challenged across all curriculum subjects.

Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education is at the heart of everything we do at Winton. We believe all pupils should have the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them. Our curriculum education ensures that children think of themselves as ‘global citizens’ and how they can make a difference e.g. year 3 and 4 raised money during their rainforest unit to protect an area of the rainforest.

Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education is at the heart of everything we do at Winton. We believe all pupils should have the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them. Our curriculum education ensures that children think of themselves as ‘global citizens’ and how they can make a difference e.g. year 3 and 4 raised money during their rainforest unit to protect an area of the rainforest.