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Our Ethos

We are a vibrant learning community with a culture that promotes academic excellence, equality and high expectations for all.

We aim to provide our students with the knowledge, skills and qualities that will enable them to become successful citizens of the future. Sharples School aspires to be an outstanding school, a school where:

  • students make better than expected progress and attainment meets or exceeds national expectations;
  • attendance is excellent because lessons are exciting and the curriculum meets the needs of our young people meaning they want to come to school;
  • we are the first choice for Sharples families, not just for academic success but because we care about every child, use strategies to meet their individual needs and ensure no-one is left behind;
  • young people demonstrate a good relationship with our wider community and are held up as ambassadors and positive role models for others;
  • the best teachers and support staff want to work here;
  • a broad range of enrichment activities and trips enables our young people to experience things that may have otherwise been inaccessible to them.

Our Ethos: ‘Learn, Dream, Achieve’

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Learn

We will:

  • provide high quality personalised learning using pedagogical expertise and curriculum innovation alongside the development of essential skills, knowledge and understanding, underpinned by a ‘growth mindset’ approach in all we do;
  • use our expertise in teaching and learning to develop quality CPD opportunities for our own teachers and those in our partnership / MAT.

Dream

We will:

  • promote a high expectations and no limits culture to raise aspirations and nurture ambition;
  • develop creativity and use our science and STEM expertise to promote opportunities within the global community;
  • encourage all our learners to ‘aim high’, and challenge the most able by extending links with the SFC, FE, HE, employers and other agencies to galvanise students’ ambition;
  • strengthen our multicultural heritage and community by modelling the ‘4Cs’ and British Values throughout our school.

Achieve

We will:

  • secure the best possible outcomes for all students by maximising opportunities, from those with SEND to the most able;
  • use resources creatively to enhance strategies and secure sustained, improved outcomes over time so that all students make at least expected progress and increasingly, above and well above expected progress;
  • offer cultural experiences via trips and visits to broaden horizons and encourage learners to achieve and follow their dream.