Visions, Values and Ethos

VISION

For Melling Primary to be recognised as an exceptional school, where all are encouraged and supported to be the best that they can be; living and learning through The Melling Way in their life long learning journey.

AIMS

*BE SAFE: To ensure that all children are kept safe and secure; that they learn and put into practice how to keep themselves safe and respect the safety and security of others in the real and the cyber world.

*BE HEALTHY: To provide a climate and environment in which children recognise, experience and adopt strategies for physical and mental well-being that will form the foundations for a healthy and happy life.

*BE RESPECTFUL: To create a community in which the school’s golden values are lived out in all aspects of a child’s life and that these are acknowledged and celebrated as the mark of respect for themselves, respect for others and for their environment.

*BE A LEARNER: To provide a rich, exciting and memorable curriculum that enables children to secure basic core skills and that deepens knowledge of their world & develops effective skills and positive attitudes to learning.

To provide high quality teaching that results in good and better progress for all children from their various starting points, leading to academic and personal achievement at the end of their primary school journey that every child can be proud of, whilst laying the necessary foundations for the rest of their life long learning journey.

*BE A RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN: To promote a code of conduct by which children can live, in terms of their behaviour and attitude to others and to learning: Be Safe, Be Ready, Be Kind, Be respectful.

BE THE BEST THAT YOU CAN BE...PROUD