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;
- 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;
- Maximising the use of outdoor learning areas;
- 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 and Bikeability training;
- Outdoor play equipment.
Inspired
- Opportunities to engage in meaningful learning (e.g an interactive workshop with the Royal Observatory Greenwich during Lockdown);
- Opportunities to contribute to the local and wider community (Harvest collection for Food Bank, EACH fundraising, Children in Need, Save the Children, Christmas Jumper Day);
- 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;
- 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.
- Healthy breaktime snacks.
- Encouraging active lifestyles.
- Promoting the link between exercise and mental wellbeing
- Clubs during and after school.
- Varied 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.
- Competitive and ambitious.
- Taking steps to promote their mental health and that of others.
- Understanding the impact of exercise and a healthy diet.
- Positive attitude to learning and problem solving.
- Determination to succeed.
- Making links between their learning and the wider world.
- Awareness of local, national and world issues.
- Self-motivated and independent thinkers.
- Always striving for their best.
- Polite and well mannered.
- Supportive and helpful to others.
- Sociable and confident.
- Proud of their progress and success at Poringland.