Mauldeth Road Primary School

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At Mauldeth Road Primary School we actively promote a strong set of values. We are required to have a set of the British values that we promote here on our website. However, the children felt that 'shared values' might be a better name.

We aim to create a calm, stimulating, and enjoyable learning environment in which children may:

• Achieve to their full potential.
• Understand others and respect their beliefs.
• Care for themselves, their environment, and their community.

The school is situated in a pleasant, leafy suburb some four miles from the center of Manchester, close to the Owen's Park area.

This is a popular school that enjoys the confidence of parents and carers in the very diverse local community it serves. The school's community has a rich ethnic mix which is represented by the pupils. A proportion of these pupils arrive at school with no English or speaking English as a second language.

Children generally start in the Nursery in the school year during which their fourth birthday falls. They stay until the next September when they form part of a single intake into Reception. Please note that to get a reception place, parents MUST apply to Manchester City Council, even if the child is already in the school nursery. To help the children to learn from direct and vivid experiences, they are taken out of school on study visits to enhance their learning. These study visits widen the children’s educational experiences and are not to be confused with day trips! We also bring people into school to talk to and entertain the children, again giving them educational experiences, which broaden their understanding of the world.

We regularly hold themed Super Learning Days, where we suspend the normal timetable and work on thinking skills to promote children's awareness of how best they can learn. We also hold termly Art days, and an annual Learning to Learn Week and Book Week. We also teach children Circus Skills, through sessions delivered, to all age groups, at the end of each term.

Visits include visits from a variety of people including Theatre Companies, authors, The Fire Service, Railway Police, and Greater Manchester Police Force. During our Aspirations Week, a range of speakers come and talk to children in Years 5 and 6 about their experiences of life, work, and education. We have had university students, lawyers, medics, sound engineers, cartoonists, TV producers, Olympians, company directors, and scientists. We have had visits from former pupils in a range of jobs, including a dentist, a film director, and a professional musician.

The theme of citizenship also recurs throughout our teaching and runs alongside our enrichment work. This work aims to provide the children with experiences that will give them an understanding and awareness of the way society works and the contribution they can expect to make. Each year children are elected to join our School Council, where they can debate issues raised by others, directly or through class suggestion boxes.

It is vital that all children are kept safe from harm and the staff are vigilant in trying to play their part in this. It is a fundamental duty that anyone working with children follows up on any concerns that arise around a child. Sometimes, to satisfy ourselves that a child is safe from harm, we need to make a referral to Children's Services. It is their job to properly investigate concerns and to provide support where necessary. It is ours to flag up concerns. Sometimes these will prove to be founded and sometimes they will be not. We hope that you will understand that any referral made is only done so in the best interests of your child. If you wish to share a concern about a child, then please make an appointment to see Mrs. Cain (the school's designated teacher for safeguarding) in confidence.

We like to think that we instill good, positive values into our children at Mauldeth Road Primary School. By Government requirements, we list below the 'British Values' that we promote. However, when we discussed our values with the children, we decided that a better name would be 'Shared Values'. Why? When we started to talk about our values, we found that there is nothing exclusively 'British' about them. They are just those values that we would all wish our children to share! We ran a poster competition, this year, and will be inserting a link here to some of the winning entries very soon.

All governors make a declaration of any pecuniary or relationship interests that they have in the school at the start of each meeting. None have been declared. The full Governing Body of all members meets 6 times a year, once each half term. Three of the meetings are pure “business meetings” and the other three are “discussion” or training meetings when more time is given to such topics as the new curriculum, safeguarding, academisation, etc.

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