Our Church School & Our Christian Values

Our Vision

'Life in all its fullness' 

John 10:10

Hope † Encourage † Accept † Respect † Trust

We provide our children with the opportunities to flourish spiritually, academically and as confident individuals. We strive for our school community to be inspired and motivated, through the Christian ethos, to have the knowledge, skills and experiences that enables them to live life in all its fullness. 

We want children and adults to thrive as God intended so that they can flourish mentally, physically, emotionally and spirituality. Jesus gave his disciples a vision of life full of possibilities and dreams yet to be met. We strive for this for our school community.  

Our Christian Values 

Our Christian Values are part of our daily Collective Worship and we focus on one value each half term. This is linked to two key quotes, one from the bible and one from a key person. We unpick these with the children and discuss how these values help us to live a life in all its fullness. 

We encourage children to follow our school Christian Values at all times. A weekly values award recognises children for displaying these throughout their time at school.  

As a Church School we are pleased to have close links with the congregation of The Church in The Levertons. We visit our local churches as often as we can throughout the school year for the events important to the Christian Calendar, and more.

Our assemblies, worship and other activities in Church are supported by Rev Mark Cantrill, as well as members of the local churches and the Open the Book Team from our local churches. 

The Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) is the Church of England and Methodist Church’s outworking of the requirements of section 48 of the Education Act 2005. It is a key element of the life of all Church of England and Methodist schools in England.

SIAMS explores ways in which each school’s theologically rooted Christian vision drives its work and enables the school to live up to its foundation as a Church school.

SIAMS inspection focuses on the impact of the Church school's Christian vision on pupils and adults. This involves looking at the school’s Christian vision, the provision the school makes because of this vision and how effective this provision is in enabling all pupils to flourish. Church schools will employ a variety of strategies and styles appropriate to, and reflective of, their particular context in order to be distinctively and effectively Christian in their character and ethos.

SIAMS inspectors therefore do not look for a set template of what a Church school should be like, but rather take the particular context of the school into account and base their evaluation on the outcomes rather than the process.

Collective Worship- 

Our whole school values for the academic year are....

Autumn Term Church Calendar:

Reverend Mark joins us for our Harvest Festival which is held in church. 

Each November we visit St Martin's Church on Armistice Day, where we pay our respects to the fallen. We always place a wreath at the Commonwealth War Grave in the churchyard as a sign of thanks. 

At the end of term we celebrate Christingle either in the church or at our school this is led by Reverend Mark. 

Spring Term Church Calendar:

We mark the start of Lent with Shrove Tuesday we sometimes visit the Chapel for pancake making! Some of our older children will visit Church on 'Ash Wednesday' and if they want to they can be marked with the ash of a palm leaf.

Reverend Mark joins us for our Easter Service which is held in church.