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Our Vision & Core Values

Our Vision

Our school is a nurturing community with a strong focus on relationships, where every individual feels safe, connected, and accepted. We foster an environment of cooperation and trust, empowering everyone to thrive and celebrate diversity. Our curriculum supports holistic development, guiding each student to become the best version of themselves and prepare for a fulfilling adulthood. By working collaboratively with families, we ensure comprehensive support and growth for every student, creating a foundation for lifelong learning and success.

 

Our Core Values

Our core values express our expectations to our children, young people and adults and make all aware of what we aim to achieve, morally, relationally and academically.  While we identify our values separately, it is important to think of them as parts of the same whole as they are all interlinked.  By teaching and consistently modelling our values, we support the holistic development of each child and young person.  Our values apply to every child, young person and adult in our school community. 

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Trust & Safety

  • We prioritise both physical and emotional safety.

  • We aim to build trust and safety in all our relationships.

  • We aim to increase feelings of safety and trust and decrease feelings of threat and danger.

  • We aim to make all our interactions ‘therapeutic’ through compassion, kindness and empathy.

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Empowerment

  • We ensure that our children, young people and adults are central to how we design, deliver, implement, evaluate and develop everything we do.

  • We make every effort to validate concerns and feelings of everyone in our community.

  • We aim to listen to what someone wants and/or needs.

  • We support children, young people and adults to make decisions and take action

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Cooperation

  • We want everyone to learn and succeed, and this requires us to work together, compromise, and share, in order to succeed.

  • Education is not something we ‘do’ to the children and young people, but a process of partnership, reciprocity, inclusion, equality, mutuality and ownership.

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Acceptance

  • There are no outsiders in our school.

  • Everyone is welcomed and included regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, geography, race or ethnicity.

  • We encourage people to embrace their true selves and share their uniqueness with the world.

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Connection

  • Relationships are at the heart and centre of our school.

  • We understand that all our other values depend upon our connections to one another.

  • We aim to promote, strengthen, honour and support healthy relationships across our school community.

  • When there is conflict in relationships, we aim to be peacemakers, avoiding blaming or shaming and using restorative approaches.

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Natural Outcomes

Staff members are committed to positive recognition for what children and young people can do and for the individual steps each child or young person makes. We actively encourage and support children and young people to know the right thing to do by maintaining boundaries and staff are expected to be kind, clear, calm and consistent in their approach. 

 

Natural Outcomes - Incentives

Acknowledging positive behaviour is effective only when children and young people understand when and why they are being given it and that all staff apply this consistently.

 

Natural Outcomes – responses to behavioural and emotional dysregulation

Although actions do have consequences, children and young people are not always acting out of choice, they are sometimes engaging in survival behaviours that are mediated by unconscious processes, causing ‘fight or flight responses.’

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