“Westwood Primary School is a place of excellence, which is child focused and family friendly where everyone can recognise and achieve their full potential in a happy and safe environment.”
Everyone at the school works towards these three core values:
- Be kind to everyone
- Do our best at work and play
- Take care of our school
Westwood Primary School is a place of learning, where everyone is successful.
- A place that fosters relationships, where everyone is respected.
- A place of acceptance, where everyone is valued.
- A place of belonging, where everyone is welcomed, nurtured and safe
Our place of learning is:
- Proactive in making sure that every child achieves their full potential in all areas of their learning.
- Ambitious for each one of our children
- Dynamic in its approach – everyone should enjoy their learning
- Stimulating – a place where learning LOOKS exciting!
Our teaching will be:
- High quality, leading to successful learning
- Tailored to the needs of our children
- Fun, purposeful and challenging
- Designed to raise standards and ensure good progress in every class
- Proactive in building confidence in each child, and equipping him/her with skills for lifelong learning
- Reflective – we will constantly strive to find better ways to do things.
Our school community will be:
- Inclusive – everyone (children, staff, parents, governors) is important
- Caring – we will make time for people, and they will feel safe to express ideas and take risks
- Respectful – everyone’s needs, talents and viewpoints will be considered
- Enabling – everyone deserves the best possible conditions to learn and to teach
- Outward-looking – we will work in partnership with other schools and groups, to strengthen our own
- Aware of everyone’s need to be and feel safe.
Together we endeavour to develop the following skills:
- Reflectiveness
- Relationships
- Resilience
- Resourcefulness
- Risk Taking
Westwood Primary School uses our vision to judge everything that we do, and we will make our values clear in all aspects of our work.