Dear Parents and Children,

Excellence through partnership.

The overriding aim of our school is to provide a happy, friendly and exciting, yet disciplined environment where every child matters; where your child is valued and encouraged to always do their best.

At Cape Primary School your child will receive high quality teaching in English and Maths and all subjects of the National Curriculum. Through our continued commitment to new technologies, your child will have access to the latest educational technology and software.

In addition, through our Personal, Social, Health Education and Citizenship curriculum we aim to ensure our pupils develop into confident, independent and caring young people who have a love of lifetime learning.

To achieve the best results, home and school must work in partnership and I would encourage you to talk face to face, e-mail, letter, text or through our website.  Together we can make a difference to the learning of our children.  To that end, our ‘Home School Agreement’ forms the basis of our trusting relationship that both you and your child are asked to sign.

I am proud to be able to present some aspects of our school to you on this website.  However, a website cannot tell the whole story.  Come and see us, have a coffee and spend some time looking around. I look forward to welcoming you and your child into our happy and thriving multi-cultural school. On behalf of the Governing Body and staff of Cape Primary School, I wish you a very long, happy and productive association with our school.

At Cape Primary School we endeavour to develop each child’s self esteem and confidence and enable them to become active and valued members of the community. This will be addressed through the following aims:

Standards

We encourage every child to aim for their very best, attain the highest possible standards, and make good progress in relation to their prior attainment in all areas.

We insist upon high standards of –          Work

                                                                 Behaviour

                                                                 Attendance

                                                                 Uniform

Quality

We provide an environment where children are encouraged to become independent learners through a range of teaching and learning strategies. We aim to provide pupils with teaching and learning opportunities of the highest quality, and a curriculum that fulfils the requirements of the National Curriculum and meets their individual needs.

Efficiency

We try to ensure that the children have the best, most stimulating resources available. We plan realistically and use the school resources efficiently to ensure good value for money from the funds available.

Ethos

We value, respect and care for each other, our resources and our environment. We help the pupils develop their spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding and to achieve good standards in their relationships.

Our School Prayer:

We have one world – Help us cherish it.

We have one life – Help us live it.

We are one community – Help us respect it.

Miss Baker

Head Teacher

Visions and Values:

Excellence through partnership.

It is our aim that by the time our children leave us they will have developed characteristics of mastery. We have identified 8 key characteristics that will ensure that our children have exceptional personal development and are well prepared for life in Modern Britain.

Our key characteristics are:

1. Try new things – success does not come knocking on the door, we must have the skills and confidence to try new things. Everyone needs to go out and find something in which they can experience success. By trying new things we provide children with the opportunity to experience unfound successes.
2. Work hard – If we want to be really good at something there are no short cuts. Accomplishments are all about practise and hard work. By setting high expectations and expecting all pupils to work hard we are developing lifelong skills.
3. Concentrate – We are bombarded with a million and one different stimuli, multitasking is the norm. However, we must all develop those skills of concentration in order to persevere, question and consolidate learning.
4. Push ourselves – To be really successful children need to learn to push themselves. They need to be able take a risk, take themselves out of their comfort zone and persevere. This may be with things they don’t like doing, feeling shy, or stopping because of the fear of failure. We will encourage all children to push themselves.
5. Imagine – Children have fantastic imaginations, as we grow older we risk losing the skill of imagination. Children will be taught to imagine, question, think and keep coming up with ideas.
6. Improve – Successful people always try to make things better. This doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with what they have but they know there is always room for improvement. We will encourage children to make good things great!
7. Understand others – Successful people use what they know to try and be useful or helpful to others. Instead of asking ‘what’s in it for me?” we will instil an attitude of “what can I give?”
8. Not give up – We all have setbacks and failures from time to time but it is how we bounce back from these setbacks that is key. Our children will understand that they are not alone, if they experience setbacks and failures they will be given the tools to become resilient and keep trying.

To achieve the best results, home and school must work in partnership we have a ‘Home to School Agreement’ that we ask parents to sign to ensure that partnership working. We only have children in school for 7 hours a day, the remaining time is spent at home where learning continues.

At Cape Primary School we endeavour to develop each child’s self esteem and confidence and enable them to become active and valued members of the community. This will be addressed through the following aims:

We provide an environment where children are encouraged to become independent learners through a range of teaching and learning strategies. We aim to provide pupils with teaching and learning opportunities of the highest quality, and a curriculum that fulfils the requirements of the National Curriculum and meets their individual needs.

We value, respect and care for each other, our resources and our environment. We help the pupils develop their spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding and to achieve good standards in their relationships.

EVERYTHING WE DO MATTERS

Our School Prayer:

We have one world – Help us cherish it.

We have one life – Help us live it.

We are one community – Help us respect it.

Extract taken from staff handbook (code of conduct)

•        All members of our staff are committed to the welfare and education of our children.

•        We provide a safe, attractive, stimulating environment in which children are encouraged to develop personally, socially and cognitively.

•        We seek to provide all children with equal access and opportunities regardless of gender, ethnic origin, Special Needs and competence in English.

•        More good, more of the time.

•        Responsive teaching – identifying misconceptions and adapting, framing the learning to suit the needs of all learners.

•        Opportunities to develop writing across the curriculum.

•        Greater opportunities for problem solving including worded problems.

•        All children will be given the opportunity to:-

a)       develop their full potential, with a self esteem to enable them to become effective and independent learners

b)       foster positive attitudes to human difference

c)       develop awareness and respect for culture, race and religion

d)       develop without prejudice, without stereotyping and without discrimination

e)       develop a lifelong love of learning