Our Values

We are a dynamic learning community in which all members are imbued with high expectations on arrival and supported in their time at the school. Self-esteem is developed, success is celebrated and talent recognised. The core element of our ethos is the SPARKLE........

Smile

Pay Attention 

Ask Question

React positively 

Keep trying 

Love learning 

Enjoy school 

We aim to:

• Make the Orchards the best place for the children to attend. 
• Make the Orchards the best place for people to work so that......
• All pupils are making progress.
• The school achieves above average attainment across the range of areas.
• The school is full of happy, confident people.
• Provide affection, stability and a purposeful structured experience.
• Build and sometimes re-build self-belief. 
• Teach children what they really need to know and show them how to learn for themselves and with others.
• Give the children opportunities, responsibility and trust in an environment that is truly stimulating.
• Put the children at the core of our thinking and actions. 
• Have high aspirations for the children. 

The school is on a journey to the best not in the world but for the community of people that make the Orchards such a wonderful place to be for all the learners. The development of the school has been one of flow ensuring each step has been built on the previous one and innovations have been able to flow from the successes enjoyed by prior actions. Talent and teamwork have got us to where we are and will take us to the next stage too. Intelligent effort is at the core of our actions. Our adoption of the flow methodology ensures that our skills level matches the challenge of the task we have set ourselves and we are compelled to achieve our goal by a significant moral purpose. We will aim to provide a high challenge -low stress environment. Success arises from a steady accumulation of advantages- - our role, as i see it is providing through education and care for the children, advantages where it is lacking and a community of explicit positive values and ambitions.