St Michael's CofE Primary Academy

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St Michael’s Church of England School is a Christian school for the whole community. By admitting children based on the proximity of their home to the school, St Michael’s Academy is fully inclusive and welcomes children and families of all faiths and none. We aim to serve local children, parents, and the community by providing an education of the highest quality within the context of Christian belief and practice. Our Collective Worship follows Christian practices and we identify Christian perspectives where appropriate in the curriculum. If a parent wishes to exercise their legal right to withdraw their child from Collective Worship we will of course respect that decision but would note that our ethos is central to all that happens at school.

We aim to:

• Create a caring and supportive environment where children are encouraged to persevere and to learn from their mistakes.
• Inspire every pupil with a love of learning.
• Provide an excellent grounding in reading, writing, and maths so that all children can apply their skills across the curriculum and in everyday life.
• Provide a broad and balanced curriculum that is responsive to individual needs, based on, but not limited by, the National Curriculum.
• Promote a distinctively Christian ethos.
• Root the school in the local community.

Our central concern is the education of the whole child. This stems from the Christian belief that all people are made in God’s image so all are equally worthy of care and all have a valuable contribution to make to the school and wider community. Our vision is for the education of the highest quality, achieving good academic outcomes for pupils, and producing well-rounded individuals who combine care for others with a love for learning and an appreciation of the importance of spiritual and physical well-being.

Alongside the national curriculum, we provide a rich and varied learning program that prepares children very well for life in secondary school and later life. We teach the children about life skills, equality, and diversity and give many opportunities for lifetime memories including a range of off-site visits and longer residential experiences. We instill a set of core values faith, respect, hard work, and forgiveness, and a motivation to learn that is remembered long after the children have left.

At St Michael's we uphold and teach ‘British values’, it runs through all aspects of the curriculum. We believe that these values are aimed at being a good Citizen at a local and national level. We are implementing the following British values at Huntingtree across our curriculum. This may be through mock elections, the setting up of a school council, and during times of collective worship.

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