We pride ourselves on being a community school and value our strong link with parents, local organizations, and the surrounding community. We aim to provide an environment of mutual respect, encouragement, and cooperation where your child will thrive.
We firmly believe in the importance of the partnership between home and school and seize every opportunity to involve parents in the life and work of the school so that you can support and enhance your children's learning. The school places great value on the development of high self-esteem and the involvement of children in their learning.
The Staff and Governors work hard to ensure that there are the best possible facilities, resources, and teaching programs available to the children. This will provide every child with a full, varied, balanced, and exciting education. The school offers a rich and varied range of extracurricular activities to support all aspects of learning.
We aim to assist each pupil to fulfill their own potential both academically and socially and to create a caring environment where pupils are valued for who they are, not just for what they can do. We have an array of systems and people in place to assist us from Learning Mentors to Peer Ambassadors.
At Yeading Junior School we believe it is vitally important that pupils have a voice. We have an elected voice box which is used as an opportunity to promote and teach about democracy and the electoral process. The representative from each year group meets with the learning mentors at the school regularly. In this way, concerns and ideas can be communicated between pupils and staff. Once term representatives from the voice box meet with the Head to discuss wider issues
At Yeading Junior School, Character Education is at the heart of learning and threaded through the curriculum as well as the school culture and is a part of everyday school life. Through Character Education the school engages in tailored projects which provide an important vehicle for children to develop. Character Education incorporates a range of activities and projects – embracing volunteering for a charity, caring for someone in the community, campaigning, or fundraising for a specific cause.
The curriculum is carefully planned to both motivate and challenge all children. The subjects of the National Curriculum are approached in an interesting and stimulating manner and are supplemented by learning which ensures the round development of the individual child. Teachers maintain high and appropriate expectations of behavior and achievement from each child at all times and expect parental support in this. Children are currently working in mixed ability groups within the classroom.
Children at Yeading Junior School are encouraged to be independent learners and thinkers. We invite children to select their task to complete after the input by the class teacher. Children are provided with a selection of tasks with varying difficulty.
Teachers encourage children to demonstrate their learning and depth of understanding through the completion of the chosen challenge. Children at our school enjoy the element of choice and strive to be challenged. Children receive scaffolding and support to achieve success in the tasks set. Teachers plan their work in year groups bearing in mind the children's previous progress and ability. There is a mixture of individual, group, and whole-class teaching depending on the activities involved. There may be several kinds of activity going on at any one time.
At Yeading Junior School there are several extra-curricular clubs and opportunities where children are given the freedom to choose to participate. This program helps to inspire young people's dreams and aspirations to reach their potential and encourages integration and fulfillment. It generates self-confidence and self-esteem that enables children to take responsibility for themselves.
