Vision & Values
Nurturing Excellence Together
Our Aims
At Grange Primary School, we believe in nurturing excellence together as a Rights Respecting School. Our children grow into well-rounded individuals, embracing strong values, effective learning behaviours, meaningful play skills, and robust mental and physical health.
Through collaborative efforts, we provide access to exceptional key skills, knowledge, and vocabulary across the curriculum. By fostering these qualities together, we empower children to understand their place in the world, take responsibility, and positively impact their communities.
This shared vision is made possible by the collective dedication of every member of our school community.
Our Curriculum
In nurturing excellence together, our teaching approach is rooted in fostering creativity, independence, collaboration, inquiry, problem-solving, and thoughtful risk-taking.
Children are guided through a carefully planned progression of high-quality subject skills, knowledge, and vocabulary, ensuring their success in learning and life.
Our curriculum reflects our connection to the world, celebrating diverse cultures, exploring history, and understanding our active roles in shaping the present and future.
Our Values
Together, we nurture excellence by living and promoting these core values:
- Compassion
- Honesty
- Respect
- Confidence
- Curiosity
- Resilience
Promoting British Values
With over 600 pupils speaking over 40 languages, our school community thrives on its rich cultural diversity. We nurture excellence together by celebrating our shared commitment to British values. Regardless of our varied nationalities, pupils, staff, governors, and parents unite to uphold these values with pride.
Rights Respecting School
What is RRSA?
UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working for children and their rights. In 1989, governments worldwide promised all children the same rights by adopting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). These rights are based on what a child needs to survive, grow, participate and fulfil their potential.
The ‘Rights Respecting School’ award (RRSA) encourages the school community to focus on issues of equality, justice and sustainability both at home and as a global issue. By learning about their rights, our pupils, your children, also learn about the importance of respecting the rights of others i.e. their responsibilities.
What is the UNCRC?
UNCRC stands for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child. It was created by UNICEF and it has 54 articles which outline all the rights a child has. Although the Convention must be seen as a whole and all the rights are linked, there are four articles in the Convention with a special status of general principles.
These are overarching rights that are needed for any and all rights in the Convention to be realised:
• Non-discrimination (article 2): The Convention applies to all children whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities, whatever they think or say, no matter what type of family they come from, whatever their circumstances. For example a child in care has the same right to an education as a child who lives with his/her parents.
• Best interest of the child (article 3): A child’s best interests must be a top priority in all decisions and actions that affect children. All adults should do what is best for children and should think about how their decisions will affect children. Determining what is in children’s best interests should take into account children’s own views and feelings.
• Right to life, survival and development (article 6): Children have the right to life and governments must do all they can to ensure children survive and develop to their fullest potential. The right to life and survival guarantees the most basic needs such as nutrition, shelter or access to health care. Development - physical, emotional, educational, social and spiritual - is the goal of many of the rights in the Convention, for example the right to education, access to information, freedom of thought or right to play.
• Right to be heard (article 12): Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously. This principle recognises children as actors in their own lives and applies at all times, throughout a child’s life. This means that when adults make decisions about a child’s life, the child should be asked what they think and feel and adult’s decision needs to take these into account. The Convention recognises that the level of a child’s participation in decisions must be appropriate to the child’s age and maturity.
Throughout the year we will be promoting these values through our everyday teaching, assemblies and various events, and we will keep you posted as and when these occur.
Click here to download a full copy of the UNCRC
Letter to David Cameron
As part of PSHE in April 2016, the children wrote a letter to David Cameron to ask him to prioritize the rights of the child at the worlds first Humanitarian summit this summer.
Click here to view the reply letter from 10 Downing Street
RRSA Ambassadors
The Rights Respecting Ambassadors represent each class. These children are our UNICEF ambassadors, who work hard to help others in the school learn all about the important work of UNICEF.
Classroom Charters
At Grange Primary School, children’s understanding of their rights has been developed through various charters. A charter displays between five and eight rights from the UNCRC, which the pupils believe to be most relevant to their setting. The charter also shows actions for how all pupils and adults within will ensure the selected rights can be enjoyed by everyone.
Promoting British Values as Part of SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social & Cultural Education)
The below document explains what actions we take through our teaching to promote fundamental British values at Grange.
Promoting British Values as Part of SMSC
