At New Park, our Children are safe, loved, and learning. All pupils at New Park are expected to: To co-operate with other pupils and adults. To listen to instructions and do what they are asked to do the first time they are asked. To work hard and allow others to do the same. To be polite. We expect all children to use 'excuse me, 'please', 'thank you' as a minimum and to speak to all teaching and support staff quietly and courteously. To take care of the property and the environment in and out of school. To treat everyone with respect and to show consideration for the needs of others.
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) is the organization working specifically for children and their rights. Its mission is to campaign for the protection of children’s rights to meet children’s basic needs and empower them to realize their full potential.
UNICEF UK believes that these values should be embedded in the ethos and curriculum of our schools, and provides a framework to accomplish this. This is the purpose of the RRSA (Rights Respecting School Award).
At New Park, all children learn about their rights and responsibilities. They learn to associate rights with needs and distinguish between their rights and ‘wants. They learn that if they have rights, they need to respect the rights of others.
It is made clear that children not only have rights but also the responsibility to respect the rights of others. That includes respect for parents, their values, and culture. The Convention recognizes the central importance of parents. It says that the government must respect the responsibility of parents for providing appropriate guidance for their children, including how children shall exercise their rights.
At New Park Primary School we value the diverse ethnic backgrounds of all pupils and families and undertake a variety of events and lessons to celebrate these. We have found this approach to be enriching for all parties as it teaches tolerance and respect for the differences in our community and the wider world. Underpinning all of this is a range of curriculum topics, which have strong links to the British Empire.
At New Park, these values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways: Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of Different Faiths and Beliefs.
Children in the Early Years are introduced to the characters - Kipper, Chip, Biff, Floppy, Mum, and Dad in the phonics teaching books, which gives them a secure first step on their reading journey. As children work through the stages of the scheme, they will be heard reading regularly in school and their word reading and understanding will be assessed.
Children are also able to choose their books from a wide range in our class libraries and from our Reading for Pleasure area in school. As soon as children are assessed as competent readers and that have a secure understanding of what they have read, they will have more freedom to choose their titles from the books we have in school.
Reading is taught in many different ways at New Park and runs through all lessons. Teachers, teaching assistants, and volunteers listen to children read individually on a one-to-one basis regularly. This provides children with valuable one-to-one time, support and guidance. There are Shared Reading sessions that involve children sharing the reading of a piece of text while supported by the teacher. The teacher models the skills of good readers, including reading with fluency and expression. Guided Reading is taught in regular sessions when children work in small groups of similar reading abilities supported by the teacher. During these sessions we will look at a text in detail, discussing the meaning of what we have read and we will practice specific skills for comprehension such as decoding and inference, and deduction.
