Vision
St Mewan School is a school where learning, laughter and friendship are shared. We believe that every child should leave our school, and progress from year to year within our school, with the knowledge, skills and understanding required to be successful in every subject we teach. We believe is supporting pupils through inclusive teaching and challenging our more-able pupils so that every child achieves their full potential across all their learning and is prepared for the next stages in their learning and life. We want to fill our children with the vocabulary, ability and confidence they need to achieve in each subject now and in their future learning. We strive to inspire in them a passion for learning and for different subject disciplines which lives on beyond their primary schooling and takes them into a future where opportunities are vast and diverse. Through our school culture we aim to embed in all children the British Values and the learning behaviours which enable them to be successful young people and adults. We strive to teach the National Curriculum in all its fullness but to go beyond this through providing experiences and opportunities which enrich their lives now and inspire them to want to live full and enriched lives in the future. We aim to open their eyes to the opportunities the wider world has to offer whilst also firmly routing them in their local Cornish heritage. We strive to develop children who can reflect judiciously on the world around them applying the critical thinking skills they learn in their time with us to their own lives and choices and the wider factors affecting their lives as they and the world grows and changes. Above all, we aim for our pupils to be happy, reflective citizens of the world who, through their time with us, have developed aspirations for life which take them into the futures they dream of.
Our vision is that every child leaves our school with the skills they need in order for them to find success and happiness in their future. We want their time with us to open doors for them. We want their time with us to help them discover who they are; what they want from life and who they want to be once they leave us. We want their time with us to unveil their true potential and give them a passion for life that helps them build a successful future. Our vision is that no child leaves us lacking the skills or character they need to build the future they want or the aspirations to reach for the best life they can have.
Values: At St Mewan CP School we believe education is a right for every child, but we also believe it should bring joy. During their time with us, we want our pupils to develop a love of learning and to grow, not just as learners but also as individuals and citizens within their community. We deliver a fully inclusive curriculum which aims to meet all pupils needs, which is enriched by a wide variety of experiences, visits, trips and extra-curricular opportunities. We believe it is our duty to give our pupils a full experience of everything the world has to offer so that through their time with us they can discover who they are and who they want to be. Our curriculum offer is aspirational and based on three core values which we hold for staff, pupils and our whole school community:
Kindness. Determination. Excellence.
Kindness
When we think about the futures we want for our pupils, as well as the present, we want them to be surrounded by kindness and we want them to be kind pupils. To achieve this, we have to model kindness in our school in our relationships between staff and pupils, staff and parents and between staff. We also have to teach kindness through our behaviour policy, personal development curriculum, expectations of pupils and our ethos. We believe that showing kindness, spreads kindness, we want this for our pupils and from them. Therefore we priorities kindness in all we do – in our curriculum, in our behaviour and in our expectations.
Determination
Learning isn’t always easy, but neither is life. Through our personal development offer, but also the example we set with our pupils and the language we use around challenge, we aim to develop determination within our pupils’ characters so that they have the resilience to cope when life is hard but also so that they value hard work and see the benefit or persevering through challenges towards a successful and rewarding outcome. Research teaches us that success comes from struggle and that learning comes from hard work. As Willingham said, ‘memory is the residue of thought’ and we need our pupils to value the struggle that learning brings before it yields results.
Excellence
We promote excellence in all that our pupils and staff do. This is because we want our pupils to achieve their full potential and to take pride in themselves and all they do whether that be in their relationships with others, academically or in their interests and hobbies. We believe that doing your best in all you do is one of the best ways to help our pupils develop pride and self-worth. This does not mean we do not accept mistakes. Through our focus on determination, we teach pupils that excellent requires determination and that mistakes are part of learning. We also teach them that we aren’t all going to be the best at everything, but if we always strive to be our best and show excellent in all we do, we can be proud of the results.
