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At Priestmead we aim to provide children with the best start in life and to develop in them an enthusiasm for learning that will stay with them throughout their lives. We are part of a great community and we believe in working closely with parents and carers. We hope that you will find our website informative and helpful in finding out about our school and following your child’s education. We believe all our children need to be literate and numerate but also motivated to become lifelong learners. We believe in an exciting, broad, and inspirational curriculum to open minds and create generations of children willing to challenge the norm and be blue-sky thinkers. The DFE publishes attainment data and you can see ours below, along with a national comparison. Our children broadly match the national average but also do better in many areas. In 2016, the SATS assessments used in Y6 changed and a new standard was brought in. We want all our children to develop an understanding of key values, to enable them to become the great adults of the future. These values bring together the ideals of many religions, British values but more importantly global values to enable our children to be the positive global citizens of the future. Throughout each year we focus on each value and talk it through with our children through the curriculum, our assemblies but also how we behave as a community every day. Our families support these values and in partnership, we work together to ensure we help every child to be the best they can be. Priestmead is committed to working closely and in harmony with its community and celebrating the diversity of the UK. We aim to prepare children for life in modern Britain and to ensure that our school ethos, curriculum, and approaches to teaching and learning reflect and promote British values. We recognize that these values are not exclusive to being British and that they have come to be accepted throughout the democratic world as the method of creating an orderly society in which individual members can feel safe, valued, and can contribute to for the good of themselves and others. We work alongside our local community and recognize the variety of religious beliefs within it. We take children outside the school to take part in local events and meet different members of the community to appreciate the valuable contributions they make. We take opportunities to: acknowledge, celebrate and commemorate national events and anniversaries related to key events in Britain’s past join in with international sporting events and find out more about the countries that host them support several charities that are selected by the children and arrange fundraising events invite members of the local community to our school events. We understand the role that our school has in helping prevent radicalization and supporting our children in developing a world view recognizing Britain’s place within it. The rights of every child are at the center of our ethos. Each year group studies the individual biography of someone who has had a particular impact on the history of Britain and who the children can empathize with. We try to select from a range of cultures and include those who came as immigrants to the country.UNICEF’s Rights of the Child will be an area we will develop by 2018. There are options at lunchtime and Pegasus time that give children the opportunity to choose from a range of activities. View full school