Mount Stewart Junior School

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Mount Stewart Junior School prides itself in being an outstanding school. The school provides a caring and friendly atmosphere to ensure that your child will have a happy and fulfilling all-around education. It is the mission of Mount Stewart Junior School to foster a lifelong enthusiasm for learning. We are committed to maintaining a community of high expectations of themselves and each other. We aim to foster partnerships with parents/ carers and the wider community which support children’s development and help them to understand their future role in society.

Within a happy, secure, learning environment we endeavor to value the contribution of every individual and to celebrate diversity. The school will ensure through its processes and practices that children ‘be healthy’ ‘stay safe’, ‘enjoy and achieve’, ‘make a positive contribution’ and through gaining increasing skills and knowledge ‘achieve economic well being’.

We aim to set standards of excellence in the teaching and learning experiences we offer and to allow our pupils to acquire knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes which will be the key to their success in future education and adult life. We aim to meet the needs of all our pupils by involving them in an appropriate, broad, and balanced curriculum.

We aim to achieve efficient management of school finances and to provide a pleasant, safe, and stimulating learning environment for our pupils.

We aim to develop and sustain a happy and secure environment in which our children gain confidence and independence while learning to accept responsibility and to make a positive contribution to a caring school environment.

At Mount Junior School, we have high expectations of our parents, and in choosing to send your child to the school we expect to work in partnership with you in providing an all-around education for your child.

We want every child to be happy, achieve the most they can, and leave here a confident, well-mannered, and educated young person.

Our view of education can be best summed up by the SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT: "Life-Long Learners Reach Great Heights".

The aims of mount Stewart junior school:

• To provide a challenging, yet supportive environment to stimulate, maintain and develop, a lively enquiring mind.
• To encourage all pupils to reach their true potential and eventually become independent learners who value learning with and from others, i.e. have a positive attitude to life-long learning.
• To value application, perseverance, initiative, and independence of thought and action, as well as cooperative endeavors.
• To develop in pupils a sense of moral values which can form a framework for a sense of own worth, and relationships with others, so become responsible members of society.
• To develop in pupils a positive attitude towards themselves and others with a strong sense of self-respect. Also to develop a sense of respect for other peoples’ property, ideas, and beliefs irrespective of gender, race, disability or academic achievements, etc.
• To appreciate human achievements, failures, and aspirations.
• To develop positive attitudes towards and concern for the environment.

To offer a broad-based curriculum to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, promote enjoyment in learning, and provide knowledge and skills to equip students for work and leisure as active, confident, and responsible members of a rapidly developing society.

At Mount Stewart Junior School we aim to make learning around experience. We deliver a diverse enriching curriculum that develops skills through creative hands-on learning.

Our curriculum is relevant and meaningful to children as it has an emphasis on the children’s interests and has a consideration of their different families, cultures, religions, and backgrounds. Children are also given exciting opportunities to explore topics each half term through a mixture of interesting homework activities and projects, workshops, and trips.

The Government set out its definition of British values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy, and these values have been reiterated this year (2014). At Mount Stewart Junior School these values are reinforced regularly in the following ways. In actively promoting British Values, we will also focus on, and be able to show how our work with pupils is effective in embedding fundamental British values. This also means challenging pupils, staff, or parents to express opinions contrary to fundamental British Values, including ‘extremist views’. Much of our current work already encompasses these values and will be intrinsically linked to our School Teaching Plan.

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