Stillness Infants is a happy and friendly school with high aspirations for all pupils. We aim to develop a love of learning in all children through an exciting curriculum underpinned by high expectations and set within a warm and positive learning environment. We hope this website gives you a feel for our school. It should also provide regularly updated information for parents, pupils, and the wider community.
Stillness Infant School uses a Values-based Education approach to teaching and learning. The staff has worked together to select a set of 22 values that embody the spirit of Stillness Infant School.
Each month, we teach a value through assemblies, displays, and everyday interactions with the children, actively modeling that value and referring to it throughout the day. Focussing on these values helps create a strong learning environment that enhances academic attainment, and develops children’s social and relationship skills to succeed at school and throughout their lives.
A positive learning environment is achieved through the values being modeled by the entire school community. When we engage with values we start to understand their implications for making choices about our attitudes and responses. A Values-based approach encourages reflective and aspirational attributes and attitudes. These can be nurtured to help people discover the very best of themselves, which enables them to be good citizens and prepare them for the life of work.
Stillness Infant School is a large school – around 270 pupils attend full-time as well as 50 part-time Nursery children. The school is set on a large site which is shared with Stillness Junior School. We are largely housed in one building on the ground floor, with a couple of office spaces upstairs. We also have a separate small building used for meetings, workshops, after-school activities, and for children to eat packed lunches. There is a playground space for all children as well as separate outdoor learning spaces for pupils in Nursery and Reception.
