Our Vision for Inclusion

We seek to create a school that is able to meet the rich and varied needs of all its students through a high quality curriculum experience that is founded on sound teaching and learning principles. We measure the success of our endeavours in both the students’ academic achievements, and their sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Achieving Our Vision

All of our practitioners (including teachers and learning support assistants):

• Consistently implement common teaching and learning principles and goals, so that all learning for all students is inclusive;
• Show an unwavering commitment to the belief that between us, we can play a transformational role in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people;
• Provide a socially, emotionally, academically and physically safe environment so that children can thrive.

Breadth & Depth

We believe that every topic is important and that all of our students ought to engage in the entire curriculum. This is why we ask our teachers to adapt their lessons so that students of all abilities can dive into the entire breadth of the curriculum; but each to their own depth.

Each topic in every subject has been carefully selected to fit into a seven-year flow of learning. Each new topic connects to the past and over a period of time a student’s knowledge and their skills advance as they approach mastery of each subject.

However, every topic can be examined to infinite depths. Let’s take a famous book, Maggot Moon by Sally Gardener.  Every student could read that book and enjoy a story about an alternate future where the Nazis have won the Second World War. Themes around truth, friendship and power are accessible to all students. Other students will swim more deeply and explore themes connected to dyslexia, class and race. Others may go even further and uncover an exposé on the nature of evil and ponder the suggestion that he who wins gets to write the history.