Butler’s Hill  Infant and Nursery School

Vision Statement

At Butler’s Hill we seek to inspire children to, ‘Dream big, aim high’, to have high aspirations and believe that they can make a difference in this ever changing world.  Our vision is to ensure that our pupils receive the very best education, to realise their potential, in a supporting and caring environment, enabling them to lead a full, purposeful and happy life.  Through our vision, we aim to EQUIP our pupils with the best set of key skills and knowledge, delivered by ‘High Quality, High Impact’ teaching and learning.   EMBEDDING this through an engaging, purposeful and challenging curriculum. ENRICHING pupils’ learning experiences by providing a wealth of opportunities to motivate and inspire them to become life- long learners.

Mission Statement

We believe that high expectations, respect and a love of learning, contributes to success in school and in later life. Through our engaging curriculum, personalised learning and supportive community, we enable our pupils to flourish, feel safe and believe in themselves.

Our motto

Dream big, aim high!

Our school values; Respect, Responsibility and Resilience are rooted in our motto, ‘Dream big, aim high!’

At Butler’s Hill Infant School we have carefully selected three core values; Respect, Responsibility and Resilience that we feel will ensure our children become well rounded members of society and have therefore linked them to the British Values.  Our values are taught explicitly and incidentally throughout the year.  We engage the children in a rich vocabulary and understanding of how these values shape the world we live in.   

Respect – in practice, this means:
Being polite and kind to one another.
Taking turns and listening.
Looking after one another.
Understanding that we are all different.

We are understanding and considerate of everyone’s rights.

You can give and model respect.  Respect is not usually a one-off event or action. It is at the heart of all behaviour, the underlying principle. How we treat and consider other people, the environment and ourselves is an important life value.

Responsibility - We recognise our actions and make a positive difference.

We have an individual and collective responsibility for:

The environment

Ourselves – choices and actions

Others – family, friends and community

As a school, we want to encourage everyone to keep developing and growing, expanding our minds and our horizons.

We can show our responsibility and commitment through:

• being excellent role models to others;
• owning our choices and decisions;
• accepting that we all have an important role to play as part of a community;
• to speak out against inequality;
• being prepared and ready to learn;
• being life-long learners;
• supporting the learning of our peers and the wider community;
• taking care of belongings and school property;
• offering additional support to enable all students to reach their potential.

Resilience – We are brave when faced with challenges.

Resilience is not giving up even when things are difficult.

Resilience is embracing challenge.

Resilience involves developing a growth mindset.

Resilience is being able to withstand negative feelings.

Resilience is bouncing back.

Resilience helps me to feel confident.

Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to overcome the challenges they face.

Our 3 C’s Aims:

• We are caring

Care is a core value at the heart of our school.  Children are kind and considerate to each other, staff, parents and visitors.  We use, ‘kind words and kind hands’.  We encourage children to think of others feelings and reflect on how to respond. 

We take responsibility for the care of our school, community and our ‘our world’, ensuring the curriculum reflects global issues such as climate change.  We understand whatever your views, beliefs or background all people come together for the protection of our world and all its’ living creatures.

• We are creative

We encourage children to ask questions, make links with previous learning, try new things and approaches.  Our aim is to develop creative learner and thinkers, who are not afraid to take risks and display a range of problem solving skills and strategies. Our creative curriculum enables all learners to shine, unlocking their skills and talents.

• We are confident

We recognise that confident and secure children learn best, which is why we have adopted a growth mindset approach in all we do, we encourage a positive attitude where we never say ‘I can’t do it’, we say we ‘We can’t do it YET’ and teach the children the strategies they need to achieve their goal.  We believe that almost anything is possible and with determination we can achieve our goals.  We dream big, aim high, work hard and try our best in all we do.  We set children challenges to stretch them and celebrate their success. 

Our promise to our children :

• Nurture every child to be a happy, caring and responsible member of our school community.
• Motivate the children to embrace challenge, learn from mistakes and to realise their dreams and goals.
• Plan a rich and varied curriculum that promotes self- belief, resilience and independence.
• Through a metacognitive approach we teach the children to be effective, independent learners who are creative, imaginative, confident, resilient and supportive of each other.
• Create indoor and outdoor learning environments that excite, energise and inspire children to play, explore and learn.
• Facilitate the professional development of all staff.
• Research, review and further improve our practice.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with parents/carers and the wider community