Richard Cobden Primary School

Our school is an inclusive and happy school where we all work hard to do our very best. We have a strong focus on the well-being and achievement of every child so that their time in our school is rewarding, enjoyable and successful.

We are aspirational for our pupils. In order to fulfill our vision and aims, we maintain a learning environment where high standards and creativity go hand in hand with excellent behaviour, respect, resilience and independence.

Our vision is to uphold high expectations and standards so as to:

• Provide every child with their right to a high quality education embedded in an inspiring and creative curriculum, enriched with opportunities to stretch their individual talents and interests
• Enable every child to use well developed oracy skills to think, learn, reason, explore, communicate, create and influence
• Develop every child’s ability to be a creative thinker and problem solve
• Help every child to develop independence and resilience to enable them to be responsible and accountable for their learning and behaviour
• Ensure every child is heard, understood and valued

In doing this we aim to ensure all pupils:

• Make learning a priority
• Develop aspiration and ambition
• Develop an enjoyment of learning
• Develop independence and self-discipline
• Work collaboratively and creatively
• Adhere to high expectations of behaviour
• Rise to challenges
• Have a determination to succeed
• Have a voice and use it purposefully
• Have, and live up to high expectations
• Adopt our culture of ‘no excuses’
• Make the most of the experiences provided in school
• Are successful and fulfilled
• Have self-respect and respect for others
• Commit to supporting each other to achieve

We know that the learning environment we create is crucial to children being able to meet our aims. We commit to providing the care, support, guidance, resources and conditions that will enable all pupils to meet our aims, and in so doing, have a fulfilled school experience that prepares them well for the next phase of their lives and education.

Our school holds a lot of personal information – about pupils, parents, teachers etc., and the new General Data Protection Regulation is the law that says how we can hold, use and store it. We have always been very careful with the personal data we hold and we will continue to have the highest standards under the new laws.

At Richard Cobden Primary School we are committed to ensuring our pupils receive a high quality education through an enriched curriculum that reflects the diversity of our community. We value and celebrate the diverse backgrounds of everyone at our school. We also value and celebrate being part of Britain. We place a high priority on helping our pupils to develop as confident and responsible citizens. In doing this, it is very important to us that our pupils have a clear understanding of their rights and responsibilities. This is achieved through the values, aims and ethos of our school which are underpinned by the fundamental British values of:

• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs