At Danson, we work together with our staff, parents, and carers, young learners, governors, and community members to create a school that aims to be responsive to the needs of our learners. We do this by providing a safe, caring, and friendly atmosphere where quality and excellence in all things are encouraged and acknowledged.
We are extremely fortunate to have a team of dedicated, hardworking, and committed staff who strive to continuously demonstrate our school’s aims and values. We strive to work together, collaboratively and in partnership both within and outside our Local Authority. The teaching staff team delivers exciting approaches to learning and teaching ensuring our pupils have a broad and balanced range of opportunities by which to foster the development of positive, responsible attitudes towards learning alongside the development of personal and social skills.
We aim to ensure that every child works to the very best of their ability every day so that they leave with the highest standard of attainment possible. This applies across all areas of the curriculum, whether academic, in sport, creativity, and social and cultural education. Our extensive tracking systems ensure that progress is measured against individual challenging targets in English, Maths, and Science.
At Danson there is an expectation of high academic achievement, we encourage creativity and cater to a personalized approach to learning. We are committed to ensuring our young people are well prepared for the next stage of their education when they leave us. We are very proud of our School and all of our achievements so far.
The School was recognized as a National Support School for many years. In this role, the School provided support for colleagues in other schools, both in Bexley and other Local Authorities. Danson continues to provide consultation services to other Schools.
School Mission is ‘To deliver the highest standards of education for ALL our children so that they become confident, well rounded and achieve their full potential. At Danson, we wish to ensure all our children are nurtured, believed in, inspired, and achieve.
At Danson, we believe that a community operates best when ALL of its members understand what is expected of them and that each person in that community should be responsible for their actions at all times. This is our Discipline and Behaviour policy. It has been agreed upon by all staff, and also children, parents, and governors have been consulted. At Danson, we fully recognize the importance of providing support systems for ALL pupils who are involved in incidents.
Aims:
- To make our school communities a safe and happy place for ALL, children and adults, so that each child can learn and achieve to the best of their ability.
- At Danson Primary School we believe that every child has the right to learn but no child has the right to disrupt the learning of others.
- To help each child develop an understanding of the need to care for others, the importance of kindness, honesty, tolerance including perseverance where appropriate.
- To help each child respect others and form good relationships with them. In particular to appreciate the various social and cultural backgrounds within our school community.
- To help each child to respect their own and others' work or property both in and outside of school.
At Danson, we are encouraging all children to develop a Growth Mindset. We want our children to have a positive relationship with learning, we want them to be more independent, active, and confident. We want them to be able to have confidence when coping with a challenge, and like learning from mistakes to help them move forward.
