Vision & Core Values

Vision

Our goal is to ensure that all of our students make progress and fulfil their potential. We will leave no stone unturned to ensure that every student can be the best they can be and to prepare them to play their part in society.

Core Values

Kingsmead School supports all members of our learning community to be enthusiastic, critical and active learners who achieve their full potential through our core values. The core values of Kingsmead School were articulated through work involving students, governors and staff at the school. They are:

Aspiration Care Respect Determination

Principles

We believe in:

• Equality of opportunity within a comprehensive, inclusive and student centred organisation

• Offering a breadth of opportunity and experience in order to develop our learners into active and positive members of society

• High achievement based on aspiration and determination

• Strong relationships based upon care and respect

• Firm and fair discipline based upon our core values

Aims

We intend that all members of our learning community follow our core values:

• Respect - Enhance their self-esteem and develop a range of positive personal qualities

• Aspiration - Develop a wide range of skills and acquire the best possible qualifications

• Determination - Become lifelong learners, able to adapt and respond positively to our ever changing world

• Care - Develop a sense of responsibility and active involvement in the local, national and international communities in which they will live and work. We aim for these to be achieved in a caring, stimulating, well ordered environment and in partnership with the home and the local community.

Objectives

We seek:

• Respect – The learning community works together to create an industrious and pleasant environment

• Care - Each student will receive the right level of individual support in realising their potential

• Determination - All students and staff are confident and successful learners, teaching is effective and learning is powerful

• Aspiration - Our rigorous self-review systems and processes promote high achievement and school improvement