Vision, Christian Values and Expectations
Vision, Christian Values and Expectations
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Our Vision
Our distinctive Christian vision is to follow Jesus’ teaching, enabling all members of the school family to live and love fully. We aim for everything we do to be clearly reflected in our mission statement: Love God, Love each other, Love learning.
Let all that you do be done in love (1 Cor 16:14)
- We believe God loves us all and every child who attends St Wilfrid’s School will develop their faith, their abilities and know how to develop in the world ahead.
- We aim to enable every child to leave St Wilfrid’s, prepared for their futures, confident in themselves and showing care and respect for others.
- We aim to provide a supportive, secure and stimulating environment within which each child has the opportunity to achieve their full potential in all aspects of their academic, creative, physical, moral and spiritual being.
- We aim to be a school to which children are proud to belong, which parents are pleased to support and where everyone feels valued and fulfilled.
- We aim to be a school where everyone is aware of their role in the church, the community and the world, and takes a lively interest in and an active part in all three.
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Our Christian Values
The all-encompassing Christian Value of Love is central to our mission statement supported by other chosen values which are characteristic of the Christian faith:
Creativity, Kindness, Respect, Trust, Perserverance and Wisdom.
These values run through all we do at St Wilfrid’s and help form, ‘The St Wilfrid’s Way’
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Our Expectations
Our behaviour expectations all focus on the phrase:
Be Safe, Be Kind, Aim High
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Promoting British Values at St Wilfrid’s CE Primary School
The Government emphasises that schools are required to ensure that the key ‘British Values’ are taught in all schools in the United Kingdom. The government set out its definition of British values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy.
The five British Values are listed below together with examples of how we promote these within St Wilfrid’s School:
Democracy
- Elected School Council
- Visits to Parliament
- Member of local Pupil Parliament
- Focus on key people and events e.g. Brexit, Remembrance, Nelson Mandela
- International School Status
- Values Education programme
- Collective Worship
- Attendance at Mayor Making Ceremonies
Rule Of Law
- Class charters setting out classroom and school rules
- Code of conduct for staff and visitors
- Behaviour Policy
- Anti-bullying Policy
- Values Education programme
- Collective Worship
Individual Liberty
- Lancashire Equality Charter
- Supported within PSHE programme
- Kidsafe Programme
- Philosophy for Children
- Values Education
- Collective Worship
- Life Education Programme
Mutual Respect
- Promotion of Christian values through Collective Worship
- Single Equalities Policy
- Values Diploma
- PSHE
- Wheelchair basketball
- Partnership/exchange with Multi-cultural school
- School House system
Tolerance
- Promotion of Christian values through Collective Worship
- RE Syllabus – multi faith units
- Visits to places of worship for other faiths
- Workshops and visitors representing different faiths and practices
- Spirituality Days
- Prayer Days
- PREVENT training for staff
- Global Learning
- Partnership/exchange with Multi-cultural school
