‘Building a community of love, respect and compassion enabling us to flourish together with minds to learn and hearts to care.’
Our Christian vision sits at the heart of all we do at St. Anne’s. It is the foundation upon which everything else is built. From this vision we have chosen seven core Christian values- courage, forgiveness, respect, compassion, peace, love, wisdom- which our community lives by both inside and outside the school. These values hold high importance and permeate all aspects of school life, driving and underpinning its work.
The School Vision is recently developed. It was chosen with clear theological focus rooted in the biblical text 2 Corinthians 13:11 “Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you” .
The Vision of the School
‘Building a community of love, respect and compassion enabling us to flourish together with minds to learn and hearts to care.’
Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11
At St Anne’s we strive to nurture the whole child. We aim for all our children to reach their academic potential, to build confidence, to be prepared to meet the challenges of a changing world and t0 develop moral character. We want our pupils to be creative, compassionate, open-minded and accepting individuals who are confident in the belief that they can make a difference, can achieve their dreams and can go on to have a successful and rewarding life beyond their time at St Anne’s taking happy memories with them. Inspired by Christian faith and practice, our school is a nurturing and caring environment in which children feel safe, valued, accepted, respected and loved.
Our vision and values help us to achieve this.
Our Values
We have chosen 7 values for our school. They are:
- Love
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Peace
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Respect
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Compassion
- Forgiveness
- Courage
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Wisdom
How does our vision and values enable us to flourish?
Daily collective worship is at the centre of school life and enables children to experience the diversity of Christian practice and tradition.
High quality, effective, academic religious education allows pupils and adults alike to flourish.
Throughout all our school life our Christian vision and values promote social and cultural development through the practice of forgiveness and reconciliation. They encourage good mental health and enable children and adults, whatever their background or ability, to flourish and live well together.
The vision is used to ensure our policies, curriculum and extracurricular opportunities meet the academic and spiritual needs of all learners.
We describe all our activities in terms of how the vision and values inspire our whole school community, children and adults, to engage in social action and to be courageous advocates for change in their local, national and global communities
Our Christian vision supports the character and moral development of all pupils and adults, giving them aspiration for themselves and hope for the communities of which they are a part. It fosters dignity and respect, enabling everyone to be the person God created them to be, to achieve the most they can, and to inspire hope for others in the local community and beyond. Learning is at the heart of what we do here; we offer a rich, stimulating environment to develop the whole child, fulfilling academic potential whilst building moral character. We encourage unique, creative, open-minded, independent individuals, respectful of themselves and others. Inspired by Christian faith and practice, our school provides a caring, pastoral base in which each child feels loved, valued and accepted. Through nurturing them in their educational journey, our pupils will be confident in their ability to meet the opportunities and challenges of a changing world, taking happy memories of St. Anne’s with them into their future life.
