Vision and Values
At James Cambell, our vision is to provide every child with the opportunities they deserve.
Giving every child the opportunities begins with giving children the academic opportunities they deserve. We are passionate about education and ensuring our children receive the highest quality teaching, with a curriculum that builds children's knowledge and skills.
We are also committed to giving our children the social, emotional and developmental opportunities which mean that their time at James Cambell is safe and happy and they leave primary school full of ambition and ready to flourish.
Our Values
Our core values are as follows:
1. Respect
We treat everyone with kindness and respect.
Respect means:
- Listening to others
- Using kind words and actions
- Looking after our school and environment
- Valuing everyone's differences
- Treating others as we would like to be treated
2. Honesty
We try to always tell the truth and do the right thing.
- Being truthful
- Admitting when we make mistakes
- Being trustworthy
- Acting with integrity
- Learning from our choices
3. Responsibility
We take responsibility for our learning, our behaviour and our actions.
- Working hard
- Being ready to learn
- Looking after our belongings
- Helping others
- Making good choices
4. Equality
We make sure everyone feels welcome, included and valued.
- Including everyone
- Celebrating differences
- Treating people fairly
- Respecting every individual
- Giving everyone the opportunity to succeed
5. Resilience
We keep trying, even when learning is difficult.
- Never giving up
- Learning from mistakes
- Showing determination
- Being positive
- Challenging ourselves to improve
Delivering our Vision
At James Cambell, we have identified four long-term development strands through which we seek to achieve our vision for every child.
Strand 1: Providing the curriculum required to close the disadvantage gap
We achieve this by:
- Tackling the key areas surrounding reading and language; inspiring children with a love of reading and enriching their vocabulary.
- Providing children with the cultural capital (the knowledge that they would otherwise lack) through a broad curriculum.
- Nurturing their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC), their welfare and their physical development.
- Promoting the school's values of respect, resilience, equality, responsibility and honesty.
Strand 2: Excellent quality teaching to ensure every single child is making good progress
We achieve this by:
- Recognising that the quality of teaching is the biggest single factor within schools that can make a difference to the achievement of children.
- Embedding the key features of high quality teaching in every class (with those features reflecting evidence-based best practice).
- Effective adaptation of teaching to meet the needs of the class.
- Excellent subject knowledge.
- Excellent behaviours for learning.
Strand 3: Working with the community so that we are jointly engaged in the children's development
We achieve this by:
- Working with families and external agencies to support children's welfare so that they are ready to learn.
- Building trust and mutual respect with parents/carers.
- Providing parents/carers with the tools to support their children.
- Involving parents/carers in the life of the school.
Strand 4: Building a culture of success amongst our staff so that we can sustain school improvement
We achieve this by:
- High expectations of your class, yourself and others: believing that every child can make excellent progress.
- Responsibility/accountability for delivery.
- Teamwork: every single member of staff needs to work together for the children.
- Motivation: a commitment to professional development and a desire for continuous improvement.
- Mutual respect.
- Flexible/adaptable: a willingness to change to meet the needs of the children.