Four Marks CE Primary School
Vision & Values
Our Vision
"Together, we are walking in Jesus's footsteps, learning to make good and courageous LIFE choices to help others, our world and ourselves."
'The school’s vision and values are lived out explicitly in this respectful and safe environment.' (SIAMS Inspection Report 2022)
Four Marks Primary School aims to be a loving, inclusive community where our core Christian Values of Love, Integrity, Forgiveness and Equality (LIFE) are recognised and developed. We explicitly plan opportunities to develop children's understanding of what our Christian values mean and encourage our children to reflect on these values and apply them to different situations and dilemmas, so developing their own reference points or ‘moral compass’ and a strong understanding of right and wrong that will guide them through life.
Children have opportunities to look beyond themselves, ask ‘big questions’ and think locally and globally about life and develop an understanding of disadvantage, deprivation and the exploitation of the natural world. Our curriculum not only aims to provide children with the skills that they need now, but also the ability to be flexible, resourceful, reflective and resilient, helping them to adapt and problem solve as they grow up in an ever-changing world.
What our school vistion looks like:
- A school which has children and learning at the heart of everything we do
- A school which develops a strong sense of what ‘community’ means, where children are encouraged to use their skills to serve others and enrich the communities to which they belong: ‘You show love for others by truly helping them, and not by merely talking about it.’ (1 John 3. 18 CEV)
- A school where moral, social, spiritual, and cultural development underpins academic achievement and children develop their own moral compass and a strong understanding of right and wrong to guide them through life: “So let’s choose for ourselves what is right. Let’s learn together what is good’. Job 34:4
- A school which offers inspirational learning opportunities which build skills for life
- A school which has an inclusive, bold and courageous curriculum which provides a range of enjoyable opportunities in which to participate and excel, within and beyond the school day
- A school culture that enthuses and empowers everyone to extend and enjoy their own learning
- A listening school where children and adults know their views are important, respected and acted upon
- A school with a warm, positive environment where we value effort, recognise success and celebrate achievements at all levels
- A school which develops a sense of team where all feel valued and respected
Our School Values
The school values of Love, Integrity, Forgiveness and Equality support our school motto which is ‘To prepare children for life’:
These core values will help us sustain an ethos which supports our aim for children to live happy, safe, healthy and fulfilling lives, to become confident individuals and responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.
We hope that our core values will help children understand that there are some central beliefs that people hold, and learn to fall back on these when making choices and decisions using these core values as an important guiding tool.
Our school badge, an image of a cross roads, shows our values pointing the ‘way’ to the cross in the centre, symbolic of Jesus and his teachings. This image helps children to see these elements as the foundations of their ‘moral compass’.
Our children believe that our school values are an important part of our school life and that they have a positive influence on what they think, feel and the choices they make. These quotes are taken from interviews with our children asking them to reflect on how learning about our values has affected them.
'The vision and values of the school are reflected in the way small acts of kindness and service to the local and wider community
make a positive contribution to society.'
(SIAMS Inspection Report 2022)
As a Church of England School, we undergo additional regular inspections by the Diocese. Our last inspection was in March 2022.
Click on the link below to read the full report.