We want our school to be a supportive happy, vibrant place where children and adults work and learn to live together in harmony. Our aim is for each individual to achieve their full potential by providing a caring, stimulating and creative environment that challenges pupils to do their best. We believe that the education of pupils is central to the work of the school.
Mount Stewart Infant School recognizes that each child is an individual that all children need to succeed, therefore, Mount Stewart Infant School respects the individual needs of children fosters a caring and creative environment, and emphasizes the social, emotional, physical, intellectual development of each child.
We aim to provide a stimulating learning environment where all children thrive and reach their potential. Help pupils to develop mentally, morally, physically, socially, and emotionally. Develop and train our staff to provide a first-class education for our pupil's Set high standards for everyone within our school community Work in partnership with our parents, the community, and other agencies for the education and welfare of our pupils. Make learning, fun, enjoyable, challenging, and rewarding. Create a harmonious school community where pupils are safe, happy and learn to appreciate the differences and diversity within the school community.
Our values are Respect for different beliefs and cultures. Honesty and Integrity are what we say and do. Equality for all pupils, staff, and parents. Tolerance and Fairness.
At Mount Stewart Infant School, we aim to identify, at the earliest opportunity, all children who need special consideration to support their physical, sensory, social, emotional, communication, or cognitive development.
Pupils with SEND will have access to a broad and balanced curriculum through quality first teaching. We also provide additional and different provisions, to support pupils when necessary.
We are proactive in identifying any additional needs early, including the needs of children with statements who are transferring in from nursery, so that we can provide the appropriate intervention to match the needs. We work with a range of outside agencies from Education, Health, and Social Care, to ensure that pupils receive the correct support.
We are delighted to welcome you to our school. Our federation comprises Mount Stewart Infant School and Mount Stewart Junior School. Our schools have a long and proud history of serving their community with each having its own identity. Now operating together as one organization, we believe our schools are gaining tremendously from working collaboratively, more importantly, we strive to provide a seamless transition for our pupils between the two schools. As one Governing Board and Leadership Team, we are best placed to offer our children the highest possible standard of 21st Century teaching and learning, with one vision and purpose for the benefit of our pupils and for the success of the community we live in.
Our federation prides itself in providing a supportive, community environment within which children can flourish. We seek to stimulate the love of learning in our children so that they want to learn for themselves and achieve to the very best of their abilities. Every child is valued as an individual and encouraged to develop their best selves within a setting where they are happy, well cared for, and, most importantly, where they care for each other.
Each year group has a topic overview of the year which is matched to the Programme of Study for the National Curriculum or EYFS curriculum. The topics are reviewed at the end of the school year and any changes will be incorporated in the new school year. The yearly overview is broken down into medium-term plans or termly units of work to show progression, continuity, and development of basic skills. Each year group plans weekly activities from the medium-term plans. Class teachers adapt these plans to meet the needs of their class. The curriculum focuses on developing skills attitudes knowledge and social skills to foster collaboration of ideas and working together towards a common goal. Our curriculum also includes extra-curricular activities and promotes equality of opportunity.
We provide a range of extra-curricular activities to enhance pupils’ learning. These activities include trips linked to topics, after-school clubs – chess, art, music, ICT, football, Gymnastics, Taekwondo, drama, and ballet visiting theatre groups and other companies and presenters. Clubs help pupils to collaborate with pupils of different ages and abilities and to use some of the skills they have been learning at school.
