At Sunnyhill we develop our school so that it is a consistent, creative, and exciting place for our children and the community. We have high expectations of each other and we share the responsibility of making the school the best environment for children's well-being, learning, and safety.
Sunnyhill is a large, expanding primary school with a Nursery and Children’s center in the heart of Streatham. By 2017 we will be fully three forms of entry in every year group from Reception to Year6. Since 2009 the school has gone from strength to strength. We have continued to develop a sense of purpose and clear direction within our school. Our school community is supportive of what is going on at Sunnyhill and there is a positive atmosphere about the future amongst all those who work to support and who have links with the school. We have a clear vision that we share with the Local Authority and our community of parents, Governors, teachers, and pupils to ensure that we are always focused on moving forward and that there is a clear direction for the immediate and long-term future.
The school team has developed together creative ways of working and planning- by trying out new ideas we have had a positive effect on assessment and children’s learning. This creativity is backed up with a real sense of rigor. We know we are moving in the right direction- we now have confident pupils who are happy at school and staff who have good morale and enjoy coming to work. Sunnyhill is a happy place to learn.
We are well on the way to meeting our goals and are clear about the way we need to move forward. We know that we can improve and look forward to the bright future ahead- we know that in many instances we already demonstrate that our provision is outstanding- one of our aims is to be outstanding across the board within the next few years and are committed to working as hard as we can to achieve this.
We aim to develop our school so that it has consistency at its heart, that it is a creative and exciting place for our children and the community, that we have high expectations of each other, and that we hold each other to account.
- We are committed to educating holistically, focusing on the social, moral, creative, and artistic as well as the academic.
- We aim to give children opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills they will need for later in life.
- We strive to have high expectations of each other and of all our children encouraging them to always do their best.
- We are working hard to build a school community with positive relationships based upon clear values, respect, and support.
- We are proud of the cultural diversity that makes up our community, seeing it as a strength, which we celebrate at every opportunity.
- We are helping children see the importance of taking responsibility for themselves, their actions, and their learning.
We are ambitious for our children and our school. Quality, Creativity, Consistency, and collaboration are what we work towards – they are at the heart of everything we do. At Sunnyhill we aim to make learning appropriate, creative, and fun- we plan creative learning journeys for our children, based on what we know they need to learn, what is relevant for them, the National Curriculum, and their ideas and interests. The process of planning a creative, quality rich learning experience is consistent throughout the school.
Our curriculum map, the National curriculum, and the skills ladders are used as signposts along the creative learning journey- we use them in a cross-curricular way (so for instance, letter writing might be taught through a project all about The Romans). We look for connections wherever possible between subjects, projects, and ideas to help children remember as much as possible.
Throughout their learning we look for opportunities for the pupils to review their learning as well as reviewing what they have learned themselves – these are like pit stops along the Creative Learning Journey to assess the progress the children have made against their starting points.
