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To be an inclusive school and to embed this into all aspects of our work to ensure that all learners are given equality of opportunity and treated fairly. To promote and achieve high standards for all by providing teaching and learning of the highest quality; ensuring continued improvement through monitoring. To treat learners as individuals and to differentiate and tailor teaching and learning to take account of their individual and special needs by setting challenging and appropriate targets that are tracked and evaluated termly by teachers and teaching assistants. To make excellent provision for learners’ physical, emotional, social, spiritual, moral and cultural needs and to have effective systems that promote high standards of behaviour. To provide for learners’ care, health and safety. To ensure that all learners benefit from a rich, broad, balanced curriculum presented in an interesting, exciting and imaginative manner with lots of opportunities for first-hand experience, practical work, investigation and learning through play. To deliver outstanding teaching of basic skills and core subjects (Literacy, Numeracy, Science and ICT) and to give great emphasis to the foundation subjects (PE, Geography, History, Art, DT, Music and RE) especially to the creative aspects including art, poetry, story, composition and performance. These will be central to our work. To make connections between subjects and to apply basic skills across the curriculum. To enliven and enrich learning through extended schools activities, visits, visitors and extensive use of our beautiful, internationally renowned environment. To give responsibility to learners and develop their self-confidence by contributing to the community. To make parents and the wider community equal partners with the school and to involve them in the evaluation of its success by providing clear information and inviting their opinions. To build an ethos marked by a welcoming, friendly, bright and lively happy place where learners feel secure. A school where good behaviour is expected and where learners enjoy growing up. To make this school a place of enjoyment where success is encouraged, rewarded and celebrated; regardless of age, gender, race or disability. Through self-evaluation to create a culture that continuously strives for perfection
At Kettlewell Primary School EVERYONE is a shining example of the best they can be