"All pupils will aspire to gain achievement in line with and better than National Expectations."
Manor Oak is a vibrant, inclusive, confident community, where every child is nurtured to achieve their full potential. We are a happy, safe, and welcoming school, with an exciting range of learning opportunities. We take pride in our school and our achievements and by the time children are ready to move to school, they leave us fully prepared for their future learning journey. Aspire
We value each child individually, recognizing their skills, talents, and needs, supporting all areas equally, enabling them to achieve their full potential.
- Every staff member supports the future aspirations of the child.
- We are an inclusive school, welcoming young people from across the community. We understand the needs of individual learners and have high expectations of progress for everyone.
- We encourage tolerance and respect for others.
- Our children are enthusiastic, they love coming to school! Our attendance is above the national average and we celebrate good attendance.
We offer a wide range of learning experiences for our children using a variety of activities, play, and exploration to support each child's development. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage and Birth to Three Matters Frameworks to deliver an exciting and stimulating play-based curriculum. The Nursery provides a happy and safe environment for children to develop their pre-school skills. We believe that children who attend our Nursery make extremely good progress throughout their time at school.
Our school motto, 'Aspire, Challenge, Empower' promotes the philosophy of British Values so that children have a desire to better improve their lives, to have the confidence to challenge both themselves and others in their learning and their attitudes, and to be empowered citizens through asserting their own needs developing healthy attitudes and taking responsibility and ownership for their lives.
Our school serves a diverse community and we take a responsibility to provide opportunities for children that generate respect for difference and tolerance of other faiths and cultures. This is achieved by having excellent role models and through our rich curriculum where we teach children to understand different faiths and beliefs and how these have shaped our modern-day Britain. Children are taught to behave well and abide by rules using our detailed behavioral policy as a vehicle to achieve this.
The ‘rule of law’ is reinforced with our links with the local police and fire services. We aspire to direct children to generate a vision of working life and how to make positive personal and social contributions. The active School Council together creates a voice for pupils to generate fairness and change within the school.
The curriculum at Manor Oak Primary School has been developed to ensure that our students receive full National Curriculum coverage delivered in a way that promotes meaningful connections across subjects. It is designed to open children's eyes to the wider world around them and the possibilities that lie within it, whilst giving them a firm grounding in moral, social, and emotional well-being. We follow an inquiry-based curriculum so that pupils are encouraged to ask questions and learn the knowledge more systematically. Our topic program is carefully balanced and planned to be age-appropriate across the years. It is important to us that art, music, English, numeracy, and science are also linked to the main topic. Experiences will be enriched in the form of a variety of clubs, trips, workshops, visiting speakers, or themed weeks that take place throughout the year. Our topics generally have a history and geography base so that we teach location and place knowledge, weather and climate skills, and knowledge and about significant historical events, people, and places in our locality.
At Manor Oak, we believe that effective learning takes place when there is considerable emphasis on active involvement, opportunities to talk both imaginatively, expressively and to explain and clarify thinking. Our curriculum includes not only the formal requirements of the national curriculum but also the ‘hidden curriculum, where the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. We aim to teach children how to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others while developing knowledge and skills so that they achieve their true potential. We actively promote British Values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs to prepare our pupils for life in modern-day Britain.
