Vision & Aims

The community of Wansbeck First School Aim to :-

  • provide a stimulating and welcoming environment
  • ensure each pupil‘s physical and emotional well being
  • ensure the pupil’s health and safety when in the school‘s care and develop their own awareness and responsibility to be safe
  • provide a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum which promotes the key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, numeracy and ICT and ensures appropriate progression, taking fully into account
    • Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage
    • The National Curriculum
    • Framework for personal, social and health education & citizenship
    • Religious Education and Collective Worship
    • Extra curricular activities
    • Community
  • provide equality of opportunity, taking into account the different needs and abilities of pupils and maintaining consistently high expectations, so that all may achieve standards that reflect their potential
  • make the best use of all available resources both human and physical to attain high standards of achievement and high quality of learning and teaching.
  • promote pupils‘ self esteem, self discipline and respect for others and to establish high standards of behaviour both within and beyond the classroom
  • promote pupils‘ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development through all subjects of the curriculum and through the general life of the school
  • encourage and develop independence of learning and to help pupils acquire knowledge, skills and values relevant to future life
  • achieve a partnership with parents and cares in the education of their children
All adults involved in school life uphold the above aims through whole school policies and present a positive role model.