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Rednal Hill Junior School comes under the umbrella of the Birmingham local authority. It is situated on the southwestern border of the city close to the Lickey Hills at Longbridge. The area has a strong history with car manufacture although much of the original site has now been developed with a new technology park, housing, and amenities. The school was built in 1952 and has three forms of entry from Year 3 to Year 6. It offers full wrap-around care from 7.30 am until 6 pm each day. The building provides access to the full range of curriculum needs and has its purpose-built dining and refreshment area. Good use is made of spacious grounds which provide ample scope for sport and recreation. Included on the grounds is a vegetable garden with a woodland walk, pond, and science area. We belong to a class community, a school community, and our family community. We enjoy working and playing in these communities. We understand that in a community there are rules and responsibilities. We also belong to bigger communities: Longbridge, Britain, and the World. We like to know about these communities and find out about the other people who share them with us. We all have lots of things in common. We want to be a responsible citizens by appreciating and caring for the communities that we live in. We are learning about our changing world and finding out how we fit into it and how we can make a positive difference. We celebrate differences and understand that people think differently and have their values and beliefs too. We like to work with our friends and encourage and support them to do well. We are good at teamwork and we know that sometimes we can achieve more together than we can on our own. We try to take on board the ideas of other people as well as sharing our fantastic ideas. We like other people to know that they can trust us and that we will be honest. In return, we want other people to be able to trust us. We are friendly to everyone at our school and value old friendships and new ones. We communicate well with others by listening and respectfully speaking to them. We are aware of the needs of other people and try to consider them in everything we say and do. We support others and demonstrate generosity, patience, and kindness. We know that we have choices to make every day. Some of those choices could have positive or negative outcomes. We want to make good choices so that we can enjoy school and life and that the people around us can enjoy themselves too. We can make these choices ourselves. We are aware that we will have to make choices for the rest of our life and that some of these will be moral choices. We are developing our own beliefs about what is right and wrong so that we can follow our conscience. We choose to stand up for other people. We do not tolerate bullying of any kind and we work hard to educate others to ensure that there is no discrimination in our school. We understand that our justice system is designed to encourage people to make good choices. At Rednal Hill we want people to respect us and be considerate of our needs. We show this respect to our friends, peers, and all adults. We are polite to everyone. We are aware of other people’s needs and show consideration. We are kind and demonstrate care for others by looking after people and sharing with them. We are patient and supportive as we want to help other people to be the best that they can be. We are appreciative of what others do for us. In school, we show respect to adults by following the school rules and listening to what we are asked to do. We show respect for ourselves, for others, and our environment. We look after the resources that we have and help to keep our school looking wonderful. We are all different and amazing! We like the fact that we are not all the same - we all have different strengths and different personalities. We are developing self-awareness and an understanding of our own identity. We want to reflect on what we do well and decide what things we could do even better. We are confident and independent: we like to be resourceful and problem-solve. We all believe in ourselves and know that we can achieve great things. We are free to be ourselves and should know our own beliefs and opinions and it is good to share these respectfully. We are aware of who we are and how other people see us. We are proud to stand up for ourselves and what we believe in. We are assertive. View full school

We have an incredibly strong staff team, with a vast amount of expertise, committed to providing the very best learning opportunities for children within a broad and balanced curriculum. As a school, we aim to provide a dynamic curriculum, and we are committed to improving all the time and being involved in new and innovative projects, including supporting other schools in Birmingham and other authorities. We emphasize academic achievement and the development of the whole child and strive for educational excellence in all that we do. From the first home visit, through to our carefully considered and unique environment in Early Years, we nurture children to achieve their best. This is reflected in excellent outcomes for children at the end of KS1. Here at Rednal Hill, we aim to maximize learning by ensuring every moment spent here is a valuable one. Our school values of Respect, Honesty, Fairness, Resilience, Trust, and Responsibility provide a vehicle for learning across the curriculum and are embedded in everything we do. Forest School and outdoor learning are a vital part of school life for all of our children and provide additional opportunities for children to become absorbed in their learning. We aim to build children’s self-confidence and their independence to develop into life-long learners. Please read our Curriculum Statement for details of how we achieve these aims. Most importantly, we value our children and their childhood within the community we serve. Our team of enthusiastic teachers, along with supportive governors and parents are dedicated to providing a varied, fun, and safe environment within which children can flourish and reach their true potential. At Rednal Hill Infant School we value every child and work closely with parents to ensure your child has a positive learning experience throughout their time here. We aim for every child to enjoy school but also to achieve the very best they are capable of. We value the outdoor learning environment and every child from Nursery to Year 2 will participate in regular Forest school sessions outdoors. At Rednal Hill Infant School we aim to serve our community and to meet the needs of our learners by providing the highest quality education within a broad and balanced curriculum, underpinned by our school values of Respect, Honesty, Fairness, Resilience, Trust, and Responsibility. We strive to provide an environment where academic achievement goes hand in hand with the development of the whole child and a long-term love of learning. Our school curriculum encompasses the statutory national curriculum but is broad and enriched by our ethos and vision. We aim to develop our children’s individual qualities as well as developing their knowledge and understanding of the skills they need to master to continue to flourish in the next stage of their education. Highly skilled practitioners draw on the Early Excellence principles of continuous provision and an enabling environment to ensure our children make strong and sustained progress from the start, developing into confident, engaged, and independent learners. Learning is purposeful and begins with children’s interests. The ongoing formative assessment ensures next steps are carefully planned for and the challenge is built into all aspects of the curriculum. A strong focus on child-initiated learning and high levels of engagement ensure our children participate enthusiastically and have a sense of ownership over their learning, recognizing success and showing resilience. Our children have many different learning styles and our curriculum reflects this- from weekly Forest School sessions and outdoor learning to inquiry-based challenges and a wide variety of learning stimuli learning opportunities are built into every moment of the day. Everything that interests our children can be channeled into a learning opportunity. Relationships are at the core of our school curriculum and we recognize the importance of good attachment. Our children are individuals, with individual strengths and needs. Barriers to learning are carefully unpicked and a holistic approach draws on all stakeholders to ensure each child reaches their true potential. Regular attendance is central to our ethos and we want children to enjoy school and feel successful. We value the role of our parents as carers and educators and work in close partnership with families. As children move through our school learning opportunities continue to be maximized, from discreet lessons and the consolidating of particular skills to ongoing, open-ended, and topic-based challenges. Collaboration and effective feedback are fundamental to developing our children’s self-evaluation skills and planning the next steps. We aim to equip children with the necessary literacy and numeracy skills to succeed in later life and the ability to apply these skills to scientific investigation, historical and geographical inquiry, enhanced by competent IT skills and a love of reading. Music and a love of art and DT are woven throughout our curriculum. View full school