School Aims & Values

Aims:

St Hugh's has two aims of equal importance, which are to promote excellent pastoral and academic wellbeing of the children in our care.

To ensure children's academic wellbeing is supported by:

1. providing an outstanding academic foundation for all abilities
2. enabling them to acquire the skills to become self-assured and resilient learners to support their developing social and economic ambitions
3. promoting a creative and reflective learning environment where all pupils are supported to nurture their individual talents across the whole curriculum
4. promoting the value of academic learning so that they become lifelong learners and positively contribute towards society

To ensure children's pastoral wellbeing is supported by:

1. prioritising the importance of good physical health, mental health, and their emotional wellbeing
2. ensuring a culture that encourages kindness and compassion,   where all feel valued, respected, and safe
3. encouraging a readiness and confidence to engage in a wide  range of opportunities, whilst approaching new tasks and challenges with resilience
4. developing a moral and spiritual awareness in pupils which leads them to value themselves and others as individuals
5. preparing our children for life beyond St Hugh's by developing a collective awareness of their roles and responsibilities within the school and the wider community

We Value:

1. St Hugh's being a family school, where parents are welcomed and there is a genuine sense of partnership
2. a diverse range of staff and Governors to ensure a respected and representative community body that is progressive
3. all members of staff and Governors having sense of personal career growth, while also contributing to our collective aims
4. a lifelong engagement with St Hugh's by all stake-holders

VALUES TREE

We reflected about which values are most important to us as a whole school community and identified six key values which we try to remember and utilise every day.

The trees below demonstrate and expand upon these values, in an age appropriate way, for Nursery, Pre-Prep, Middle and Upper School children: