Vision, Values and Ethos
Our vision for our school is 'Working together, aiming high!', which compliments the Trust's vision of Ambition, Aspiration, Excellence within a Connected Community.
Our core values are:
Kindness, Respect, Cooperation and Trying our best!
We promote high achievement and learning for life by working with children to:
- Develop enquiring minds and a spirit of curiosity
- Become highly motivated life-long learners
- Be flexible and adaptable for the modern world
- Have high self-esteem – respecting themselves, others and the environment
- Be able to work independently and collaboratively
- Achieve high standards in all areas of the curriculum
- Gain advanced technological skills
- Seek to extend themselves in mind, body and spirit
We believe that each child will succeed through experiencing quality in:
- A broad and challenging curriculum
- An enriching programme of extracurricular activities and visits
- A stimulating learning environment
- A rich, varied and up-to-date range of learning resources
- Innovative teaching and an investigative approach to learning
- An ethos of support, challenge and encouragement to succeed
- Learning partnerships between school, home and the community
We demonstrate our commitment to working as a learning community by:
- Striving for continuous improvement in all that we do
- Working collaboratively towards common goals
To help us achieve our aims, within our philosophy of partnership with parents, we ask you to:
- Be supportive of the aims of our school, our philosophy and practice
- Contact us if you have any queries, concerns or any issues you wish to discuss
- Attend our parents' evenings and other occasions to discuss your child’s progress
- Ensure your child is punctual and attends school regularly
- Keep us fully informed of any changes of circumstances, so we can be responsive to your child’s needs
- Attend our events in school e.g. Curriculum sessions, Open Days, Harvest Festival, Special Assemblies
- Support our Friends of Bacton School in their activities
- Encourage and support your child’s learning in school and through our homework programme and other activities we may ask them to do at home
- Ensure your child takes care of school property