Ethos & Values

Ethos and Values

At Oxhey Wood Primary School we believe that all of our pupils should achieve to their full potential: academically, creatively, socially, physically and personally.

To that end we aim to create a caring, supportive, happy and secure learning environment where all the variety of successes of the children can be celebrated.

An environment where:

• Everyone deserves respect and is treated with respect.
• Children develop confidence and a sense of moral and social responsibility.
• Positive attitudes to learning are promoted and a high level of attainment is expected, whilst ensuring effective teaching offers a genuine breadth of opportunity.
• Lifelong skills of assertiveness, self-confidence, problem solving and communication are developed.
• Appropriate behaviour is encouraged and recognised; children learn to control themselves and learn that they are responsible for their own behaviour.
• Parents are actively encouraged to play a full role in the school and in their children’s learning so that together, the school, parents and children can work towards achieving our goals.
• The promotion of consistency between home and school is actively pursued to encourage parents to play a full role in their children’s learning.
• Parents are informed and supported to maximise opportunities for home-school learning and to help them to understand the school’s expectations of behaviour.
• Healthy lifestyles are encouraged and a range of opportunities provided to promote an enthusiasm for sport and physical activity.

The governors play an active role in the achievement of this Vision and Ethos by: setting the right strategy; holding the school to   account; challenging and supporting the staff; understanding the school from firsthand experience including taking into account of the views of parents, pupils and staff.