At Step Ahead Primary School it is our aim to create for everyone a happy, secure and stimulating learning environment.

We will encourage in all our children a love of learning, develop their independence and self-discipline and their respect for themselves, for others and for our world.

We will provide a rich, broad and balanced curriculum, which will teach academic, social and aesthetic skills and seek to fulfill each individuals potential.

We aim to prepare our children for their rile as responsible, confident members of a multi-cultural society in an ever-changing world.

We place achievement with the reach of all our children but we sometimes ask them to stand on tip-toes to get there.

We recognise parents as the first educaors of their children and we affirm the importance of staff. parents and the local community working in close partnership to support the children's learning, growth and development.

We value work and develop a positive working atmosphere, enabling children and adults to fully apply themselves to all tasks which engae and encourage self confidence and independence.

We nurture enthusiasm to learn and actively encourage fun, originality, imagination and the desire for knowledge.

We interact in a caring way, irrespective of age, gender or other differences.

We all learn to appreciate human achienments and aspirations where healthy competition is balance by cooperation and mutual support.

We all seek to understand the world in which we live and to cherish and care for our environment.