Erdington Hall Primary School Prospectus

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Welcome Trust

The Summit Learning Trust family is currently made up of three secondary schools, four primary schools and a sixth form college educating almost 8000 learners.

All of our academies are located in the Birmingham and Solihull areas which allows us to work closely together for the benefit of all our children, young people and the communities we serve. After another highly successful year, all of our academies have now been judged by Ofsted as ‘Good’ providers with an increasing proportion of ‘Outstanding’ features.

We are relentless in our ambition for all our children and young people to make exceptional levels of academic progress and achieve strong portfolios of qualifications. Across Summit, our focus is on developing responsible, knowledgeable, highly skilled, global citizens who will have a positive impact on our communities now and in future years. We are developing our already established links with higher education establishments, local employers and charitable organisations to ensure that all our young people can benefit from these positive partnerships within our wider communities.

Our Trust is committed to providing vibrant learning communities in our schools and college, where our children and young people are happy, safe and supported to work hard. We are all acutely aware of our core purpose of educating all learners through exceptional teaching and learning, underpinned by high levels of care and support and we challenge our children and young people to do their best, every lesson, every day. We strive for all our learners to have as many life choices available to them as possible.

Being part of the Summit Learning Trust family means that all our academies benefit from a wide range of expertise, support and challenge. Leaders, teachers and support colleagues work with each other across our academies to develop and share excellent practice and provide support where needed. Our academies benefit from highly-trained, expert, hard-working and dedicated staff teams who are all committed to providing an outstanding education and the highest levels of care for all our learners. Whilst other schools and colleges struggle to recruit and retain high quality, specialist teachers and support colleagues, we are proud that we attract a high calibre of professionals due to our happy, warm, and hard-working environments and the growing reputation of Summit Learning Trust as a great place to learn and work in.

We pride ourselves on working in partnership with parents, carers and families and hope that this prospectus provides you with an insight into our school. We look forward to welcoming you and working with you.

Vince Green Chief Executive Officer

Welcome Principal

Dear Parents and Carers

I am very pleased to welcome you to Erdington Hall Primary School, where you will meet our wonderful learners and an ambitious and dedicated team of staff.

Erdington Hall is a one form entry from Reception to Year Three and two form entry from Year Four to Year Six, which serves its local community. All who attend our welcoming and caring school know that our children are at the centre of everything we do at Erdington Hall Primary School and believe that all children have the potential to achieve. We have high expectations in terms of outcomes, learning, attendance, punctuality and uniform and all aspects of every for our Erdington community which directs us to create the best pathways for all.

“As part of the Summit Learning Trust, our collective mission is to deliver exceptional education to our children to enable them to have successful, happy lives and make a positive impact on their communities. We nurture all of our children and place their safety and wellbeing at the centre of all we do.”

As we embark on this journey together, I look forward with great anticipation to working closely with you.

Jenni Downes Principal

Vision and Mission

At Erdington Hall, our learners come from a diverse tapestry of backgrounds. We believe in their varied skills and talents as individuals.

Our school values enable all to become proud and active members of the school family along with the wider community.

Our learners grow in knowledge, develop skills and offered enriching experiences and activities. We nurture our children to be curious, empathetic, imaginative, and great communicators

As part of the Summit Learning Trust family, we embed our Trust values into our school life:

Success through Endeavour:

We work hard and develop resilience to ensure that we are able to collectively and positively overcome any barriers that we face

Ambition through Challenge:

We are relentlessly ambitious for all our students and colleagues and challenge them to do their best, every lesson, every day

Strength through Diversity:

We are truly inclusive, embrace each other’s differences and backgrounds and respect each other’s views and beliefs

A Stimulating Environment

At Erdington Hall, we have an interesting and stimulating teaching and learning environment, which reflects our values and promotes a sense of community as well as an individual sense of self-worth.

We provide a happy, caring environment in which both children and adults feel safe, secure and valued, where they will find satisfaction and pleasure in their work and where learning will flourish.

Outdoor learning environments are meaningful and purposeful to complement the development and learning stages of children at all key stages from reception to Key Stage 2.

Indoor learning environments engage and aspire our children to be curious learners and showcases our broad and balanced curriculum offer.

Our Rich Curriculum

At Erdington Hall, every child is recognised as unique. We provide our children with an engaging, exciting and empowering curriculum. We celebrate and embrace diversity within our school community.

Our curriculum is designed to cater to the needs of all our children and to enable them to flourish. Our curriculum is developed to:

• Instil deep learning, knowledge and skills through the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum

• Provide collaborative and independent learning experiences that promote curiosity, creativity and develop cultural capital

• Produce confident and articulate communicators, who use subject language effectively

• Enable pupils to make links and transfer skills and knowledge

• Encourage pupils to contribute positively to life in modern Britain

At Erdington Hall Primary School, every child is recognised as a unique individual. Our curriculum is designed to be engaging, broad and balanced to equip all learners with the knowledge and skills through play and various teaching and learning methods to ensure children succeed in life.

Enrichment

Enrichment is a focus for Erdington Hall Primary school to ensure children have the opportunity to gain knowledge, skills and experience through a variety enrichment experiences.

Our extra-curricular opportunities offer Sports, Arts and further academic support. We believe that enrichment can help raise academic standards, enhance performance and equip our children with key life skills for an ever-changing world.

All children experience a range of educational trips and external visitors throughout the academic year which will raise aspirations and foster ambition through the early developmental stages to embed a love of learning underpinned by the knowledge and skills learned in our curriculum.

We encourage children to participate in before school and after-school clubs which offer a range of activities which underpin self-confidence and academic and social achievement.

Parents, Carers and Community

At Erdington Hall we believe in working in partnership with parents and carers and with our local community. We believe that teaching and learning is enhanced when there is a strong positive relationship between home and school.

We build strong communication channels with families, working in partnership to ensure that our school fulfils its vital role in the Erdington community. We are always happy to welcome parents and carers to Erdington Hall Primary School encourage you to become involved in school activities. We have an open-door policy and we actively promote the involvement of parents and carers in all aspects of school life in order to raise aspirations, promote ambition and applaud the success of children at all levels.

Nurturing the Whole Child

Our pastoral team is strong, compassionate and evolves with our cohorts of children and families. Nurturing the whole school is important to us, we have developed an ethos which promotes learning, academic achievement, and personal development.

This provision allows our learners to develop social skills and prepares them for future lives. We have a school counsellor and art therapist in school, who are able to work with children and their parents and carers. We encourage learning experiences that meet the needs and raises the aspirations of our learners at Erdington Hall Primary School. Our curriculum broadens the values and opportunities for every child as they grow and develop. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of our children and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences now and in later life.

Safeguarding and Wellbeing

Erdington Hall is committed to safeguarding; promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

It is our firm belief that the way in which we nurture and care for our young people is intrinsic to their success. Highly effective systems support achievement, self-belief, and inspiration.

Whilst the prime focus of Erdington Primary School is to secure the best educational outcomes for our children, we place the safety and welfare of our children at the heart of our school’s culture and ethos.

Erdington Hall Primary School offers an environment where children feel warmly supported and valued. Personal strengths are developed by praise and encouragement, not pressure. We pride ourselves on positive parental engagement involving parents and carers in all aspects of their child’s education and welfare. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, staff members and visitors to the school.

Children are supported with any personal challenges they face by our pastoral staff and external professional partners where necessary. Professional partners are fully integrated into our school to support our pastoral systems and provide the highest level of care for our children. This integrated and coherent approach promotes an ethos of kindness, humility and acceptance where children are encouraged to support each other and contribute to a safe and happy environment. As a result, our children are assured and confident in the knowledge that well-managed problems will not stand in the way of their future success and, wherever possible, learning is never compromised.

Identifying and supporting children and promoting emotional health and wellbeing is of utmost importance for our staff team at Erdington Hall Primary School. We have a number of staff members who are trained Mental Health and Wellbeing Ambassadors, holding the necessary formal qualifications to ensure that our excellent pastoral systems are complimented by specialist mental health and wellbeing support for our students.

Attendance and Punctuality

At Erdington Hall we recognise good attendance and punctuality is crucial to learning, raising standards and for the achievement of children.

We expect children to attend school every day. Promoting good attendance is partnership work between school and parents and carers. We encourage our families to support a positive attitude towards school, and an eagerness to learn and succeed.

We work with parents and carers to achieve high attendance and offer support with early intervention from external professional partners where necessary. Professional partners are fully integrated into our school to support our pastoral systems and provide the highest level of care for our children. We strive to work with families to support the best possible attendance.