Intent

At Cantrell, our educational intentions are simple and centre on achieving the best possible outcomes for all children so that:

• Learners are safe, happy, confident, secure and able to engage with the wider community. They develop strong characteristics for learning: Resilience, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Reflectiveness, Readiness and are well-prepared to live life in Modern Britain.
• All pupils are extremely well-prepared to become life-long learners and are able to achieve the highest possible social, emotional, physical and academic standards.
• Learning is enjoyable, integrated and stimulating; education is delivered in a way that develops and challenges children and excites their imagination. In this way, children enjoy not just learning different things, but learning in many ways: out of doors, through play, in small groups, through art, music and sport, from each other and from adults other than teachers.

Our vision statement

At Cantrell Primary School, we believe in the concept of lifelong learning and the idea that both adults and children learn new concepts every day.  We maintain that learning should be rewarding and enjoyable for everyone; it should be fun.  Through our teaching, we equip children with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to be able to make informed choices about the important aspects of their lives.  We believe that appropriate teaching and learning experiences help children to lead happy and rewarding lives.

Cantrell's way to Bee amazing:

Bee RESPECTFUL

Bee RESPONSIBLE 

Bee KIND

Our school ethos

We strive:

• To achieve the best outcomes for each child regardless of individual starting points and ensure that children feel a sense of achievement in all that they do.
• To deliver an interesting, broad, creative and challenging curriculum.
• To empower children to become independent, resilient learners and thinkers.
• To develop enquiring minds, enterprising skills and embrace lifelong learning, inspiring all to hold a natural curiosity and love of learning.
• To encourage pupils to develop self-discipline and high standards of work and behaviour. This includes encouraging pupils to act responsibly, display initiative, be considerate and respect themselves and others.
• To celebrate social and cultural diversity so that everyone feels valued and respected.
• To help children to develop a knowledge and understanding of issues affecting their health and well-being so that they can make informed choices for their future.
• To enable pupils to become responsible and environmentally aware global citizens, and value and celebrate their contributions to society.
• To harness and encourage the safe use of new technologies to enhance and extend learning.

Implementation:

In order to achieve our intentions, we provide:

• A happy, nurturing environment where all children can fulfil their potential and make a valuable contribution to society.
• High quality and exciting teaching is a strength of this school, and we pride ourselves on this.
• A wide range of enrichment activities to enhance our creative curriculum and enable us to teach children to practice all their acquired skills.
• Effective pastoral support to promote a pupil’s spiritual, cultural, social and moral development.
• Positive and effective partnership between pupils, staff, parents, governors, other agencies and the wider community.
• Committed, forward-looking and energetic staff who work relentlessly to ensure ours is an effective school where all children receive the best education possible.
• Involvement in local, national and international networks enables us to learn from best practice and use all resources to develop and further strengthen our offer.