HAPPY ACTIVE INSPIRED HEALTHY LEARNERS
Happy:
- A positive atmosphere at school;
- Happy staff who love their work;
- Friendly children who enjoy learning;
- Active lessons;
- Regular communication from school to home;
- Parents and carers who support the school;
- New Woodland play area;
- Teachers who are always willing to seek and try new ideas;
- Engaging displays – including the website and social media;
- Everybody working together as a team;
- Encouragement to progress and succeed;
- Results that we are all proud of as a school.
Active:
- Improved play areas for all to use;
- A new outdoor classroom;
- Team Teach promoting Active learning;
- Opportunities for outdoor and adventurous activities;
- Use of specialist sports coaches;
- Understanding that a healthy body leads to a healthy mind;
- Extra-curricular sport;
- Inter and intra-school competitions;
- Cycling Proficiency training;
- Outdoor play equipment.
Inspired
- Opportunities to engage in meaningful learning (e.g a recent Egyptian day in KS2, and a visit to The Elizabethan House Museum);
- Opportunities to contribute to the local and wider community (Macmillan Coffee Morning, Harvest collection for Food Bank, EACH fundraising);
- Community events, e.g. decorating the church at Christmas and Easter and visiting the church for services;
- Thought-provoking assemblies to promote new ideas;
- Exciting displays to celebrate our work;
- Improving our outdoor area;
- A plan to continue to develop the school environment;
- New leaders in Computing, Wellbeing and Sport.
- Extra-curricular sport;
- Inter and intra-school competitions;
- Specialist coaches to develop our PE curriculum;
- A committed and hardworking PTA;
- A whole community who work together;
- Children who attain highly and make excellent progress.
Healthy
- Assemblies about healthy living.
- Lessons about what makes a healthy diet.
- No more Tuck Shop replaced by fruit snack time.
- An awareness of world obesity – a modern problem.
- Encouragement to be active.
- Scientific understanding- exercise = mental wellbeing
- Clubs during and after school.
- Varied, fun opportunities in sport.
- Continued improvement of our building.
- Improved outdoor areas to promote play.
- Healthy staff who lead by example.
- Looking at British heroes of sport.
- Adventurous teaching that is healthy and active.
- A firm belief being healthy promotes success.
Learners
- Happy and Active.
- Encouraged to think about mental health.
- Active and sporty.
- Competitive and ambitious.
- Understanding of healthy diets.
- Knowledgeable about the benefits of active life.
- Healthy attitude to lessons.
- Positive attitude to problem solving.
- Seeing the purpose – why they are learning.
- Aware of the issues in our world today.
- Self-motivated and independent thinking.
- Always striving for better.
- Polite and well mannered.
- Supportive and helpful to others.
- Sociable and confident.
- Proud of their progress and success at Poringland.