Visions and Values

Our school vision is 'Simply Making Possibilities Achievable'.

Mission Statement:

St Margaret’s is committed to developing lifelong learners who are responsible citizens that have limitless possibilities for their future.  St Margaret’s Primary Academy caters for children between 3 and 11.  We are committed to provide children with a safe and stimulating environment which allows them to develop resilience, self-esteem and manage emotions to form positive relationships.  Our purposeful, relevant and enquiry-based curriculum provides all our children with the skills and experiences to allow them to embrace an ever changing world.  

Aims:

Through all that we do we aim to:

• Ensure children feel safe and secure and are provided with opportunities to develop high levels of self-esteem, resilience and motivation. 
• Ensure everyone is responsible for being a learner and achiever.
• Ensure everybody makes the best possible progress, is ambitious for the future and is given the opportunity to explore a wide range of experiences of the wider world.
• Ensure there is a purposeful, relevant and enquiry-based curriculum with a wide range of opportunities and experiences to meet the children’s needs which develops curious, creative, reflective, life-long learners.
• Ensure all members of the community build positive relationships through effective collaboration and communication to develop compassion and mutual respect.

Learning Values:

Our Learning Values are taught through all that we do at St Margaret's Primary Academy.

Our Learning Values are:

Collaborative - we learn together; discussing, listening and being respectful

Creative - we take risks and explore ideas

Curious - we ask questions and make links in our learning

Reflective - we think about how we can make progress in our learning

Resilient - we manage our distractions and never give up

Responsible - we are responsible for our own learning and all that we say and do

Learning Skills:

Our learning skills are key skills that we teach the children to become life-long learners.

Our learning skills are:

• Resilience – manage distractions and perseverance
• Resourcefulness – questioning and making links
• Reflectiveness – meta-learning and revising
• Reciprocity – collaboration, empathy and listening