BPS Values, Culture and Strategy
At Brynhyfryd Primary School, we aim to:
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Create a safe, sustainable, happy and caring school environment.
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Prepare our children to flourish as life-long learners and global citizens in the 21st century.
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Foster positive learning partnerships between children’s home and school communities.
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Nurture every child’s self-esteem, confidence and sense of pride in all they do.
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Inspire all members of the school community to live respectfully and appreciate diversity.
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Innovatively provide our children with learning experiences appropriately matched to their individual needs, backgrounds and abilities.
Summary of our local design for school life
Pupils consider our school values, collaborate together in pupil councils and provide feedback to school leaders about how well our values change our behaviours and where we need to improve as a school...
Our Mission- To inspire learners' personal "life adventure"
In BPS, in order to help learners to understand their personal life adventure, we use ideas from the following metaphor...
Here is a brief explanation of the elements of our approach...
SUMMARY DOCUMENT COMING SOON!
In order to support pupils' evaluative thoughts about their adventure to embodying the 4 purposes, school staff use a 'Boat Building Book' with each pupil in order to help structure their progress.
Pupils' Boat Building Books help them to:
-put learning in the context of the entire curriculum offer they experience
-provide knowledge organisers for key information that we expect pupils to learn by the time they leave BPS
-focus pupils on aspirations, personal learning goals and interests, passion projects and links to the wider world of work
-form the basis of formative assessment discussions between staff and pupils, guide learning objectives and co-constructed success criteria
[Boat Building Books to be 'launched' Autumn 2023]