Our Academy

Our Vision

Within our learning community, we offer an experiential curriculum that nurtures children’s innate curiosity, creativity, uniqueness and personal aspiration. We inspire courageous advocates and deep thinkers who celebrate the local while embracing the global, giving our pupils the skills and confidence to own their futures.

Our school is filled with friendly, fun and hard-working children and adults, and there is always lots going on to ensure this is an innovative and exciting place to work and to learn. The entire team is committed to making sure that the children of Castle Primary School are provided with the best education and the best opportunities, and they are always encouraged to be the very best they can be.

British Values

The examples that follow show currently some of the many ways Castle Primary School seeks to embed ‘British values’.

Democracy

Castle Primary School currently addresses issues of democracy in the curriculum and the wider life of the Academy currently by:

• Involving children in making decision about certain choices, such as new staff recruitment or school contracts.
• Children are part of policy writing, e.g The Behaviour Policy
• Elections of School Parliament representatives
• School Parliament meetings in class every term and between MPs termly
• Voting for choice of texts to learn about
• The study of the Ancient Greeks
• Visits by MPs
• The study of World War 2
• The teaching of skills in balanced arguments through literacy
• Using drama techniques to develop ‘a voice’ such as Conscience Alley
• Local study which investigates the use of land locally
• Democracy question of the term

Future Plans Involve

• Planning visits to and from institutions and services

The rule of law

Castle Primary School currently addresses The Rule of law in the curriculum and the wider life of the Academy currently by:

• Ensuring there is a class charter that children know and understand
• Children know and understand the school behaviour policy
• Use restorative justice techniques following an incident
• Themed assemblies that focus on such things as responsibilities
• Providing a ‘reflective time’ to consider certain behaviours

Future plans involve:

• Further, formalised’ visits from the PSCO
  Individual liberty

Castle Primary School currently addresses Individual Liberty in the curriculum and the wider life of the Academy currently by:

• Study a comparison between Victorian and life today
• Visit by NSPCC
• Study of World 1 and 2

Mutual Respect & Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

Castle Primary School currently addresses Mutual Respect & Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs in the curriculum and the wider life of the Academy currently by:

• Preventative work on bullying (in conjunction with NSPCC)
• Themed assemblies of equality and diversity
• Big question studies around different faiths
• Inviting different people of different faiths to talk with the children
• Our Castle Citizen culture

Future plans involve:

• Visiting different places of worship on a yearly basis
• Invite people from faiths not represented in the school to talk with the children