The Ridge Junior School

The Ridge Junior School

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"A school family, engaged, aspiring and learning together"

Vision, Value and Ethos

Vision

To develop children who can flourish in the world of 21st and 22nd Century

 Ethos

To create flourishing learners through offering a Broad curriculum, Quality Teaching, Purposeful Practice & developing Personal Drive

 RIDGE Values  underpin our vision

Pupils are taught   Respect, Inclusion, Drive, Growth and Empowerment

Pupils will be Respectful, Inclusive, (have) Drive, (are) Growing & Empowered. 

Core aims are for each child.

Respect

  • Understand and appreciate the benefits to themselves and others of order and rules
  • Develop self-discipline and understand its importance in being a trusted member of the school and wider community now and in the future
  • Understand and respect other points of view
  • Their environment and The ‘Environment’

Inclusion

  • Know how to care for work with  and involve others
  • Understand and appreciate the importance of diversity in making the world the best possible place
  • Be able to empathise with and understand needs of others

Drive    

  • Be motivated, enthusiastic, confident resilient –aspiring to be their ‘best self’

Growth

  • Know that, whilst material wellbeing is important, there are other components to human happiness worth striving for and growing towards.
  • Succeed academically.
  • Learn how to learn
  • Be inspired to be lifelong learners
  • Know how to assess and manage risk.
  • How to be safe, mentally and physically well and so flourish and grow

 Empowerment

  • Have the skills, knowledge, understanding and cultural capital to pursue own ambitions, passions, goals and make a positive difference to the world.