Our Values

Our children, staff and governors, in consultation with parents, have agreed 22 values. One value is assigned to each month on a two-year rota so that over a child’s time at Oakthorpe, they will focus on each value three times.

We have identified 5 core values which relate to each of the others:

*respect *creativity 

*responsibility

*exellence * confidence

Our values underpin our ethos and support us in raising standards and developing the whole child as confident, independent and responsible people in a caring, happy, safe and purposeful environment. 

• hold a weekly values assembly based on the value of the month, allowing children to become familiar with the language and ideas.
• Inform parents of our values so they can reinforce them at home.
• Have a clear set of class rules decided with the children: the rules are then real and meaningful for the children.
• Teach children good manners and how to manage their emotions
• Have high expectations and clear boundaries: the foundation of good values require good discipline.
• Give children opportunities to reflect on their behaviour and their learning to help them take responsibility for themselves and others
• Reward children for developing and demonstrating the values, for example, in our Child of the Week assemblies
• Take opportunities to discuss values within the curriculum.
• As staff, try to live the values in the way we work and communicate with each other, with children and with parents. Children learn best when they see behaviours modelled by adults