Our Ethos and Values

Our School Vision

At Forest Fields, our vision is

Every child deserves the opportunity to reach their true academic potential. We want every child to feel valued, within a safe, happy and nurturing school environment. Through a rich and creative curriculum, we prepare our children for their future by providing experiences which grow aspirations, and ambition without limits, so they can achieve and succeed in school and beyond. Understanding the child as a whole and celebrating the families that make-up our community underpins our vision.

  We are about children, curriculum, communication, cultural capital, community diversity and committed readers.

We will:

• Create wonderful and awesome learners that achieve well academically and develop emotionally, socially and become rounded citizens
• Smash all barriers to learning
• Prioritise communication skills through a language rich environment
• Listen to everyone and make sure everyone has their opinion valued
• Ensure every child is a reader and develops a deep, rich understanding of the world
• Meet the needs of all our individual learners
• Foster their individual passions

In order to achieve this we provide:

• An exciting, engaging and adventurous curriculum that focuses on key knowledge and skills and gives children fun ways to practise these
•  Creating a love of learning and the confidence to move forward
• A supportive kind, caring, empathetic team that look after each other
• Learning that is exciting and fun!
• A curriculum that raises awareness of our impact on the environment locally and globally, promotes sustainability and ecological understanding
• Opportunities to be creative through the arts, which will include performance, music, drama and enabling a celebration of achievements.
• A curriculum that encourages fit, active children through a wide range of sports, healthy lifestyle projects and develops their EHWB.
• A curriculum that helps to nurture a whole child's character, so they can face challenges to develop curiosity, creativity, teamwork, empathy, resilience, respect, reflectiveness, diligence and excellence, which form our school values. These are embedded within our curriculum.

Our School Values

All year groups will work on these values across school and each year group will have a focus on a value, fostering and nurturing it as they progress through the year.

 Nursery:  Curious

Foundation 2: Creative

Year 1: Teamwork

Year 2: Empathetic

Year 3: Resilience

Year 4: Reflective

Year 5: Diligent

Year 6: Excellence

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