Communicate, Persevere, Achieve
Our Mission
Provide every student with the life skills they need to become independent and confident through each stage of their life’s journey.
Our Vision
Preparing our students for an inspiring future.
Our Values
Communicate – Being able to share our needs, wants, opinions and thoughts.
Persevere – Resilient learners who keep trying and never give up.
Achieve – Aspiring to be our best.
For each of these values and characteristics, we have established a set of behaviours and actions which set out our expectations.
Learner – Trying our best; Hardworking and Focused
- We set high expectations of ourselves and others.
- We have the highest standards of attendance and punctuality.
- We take pride in our work.
- We relish tough challenges.
- We strive to improve continuously in every area.
Honest – Being a responsible and safe person in our community
- We are passionate about helping others.
- We think about others in every decision we take.
- We strive to go the extra mile in everything we do.
- We look to make things easier for people we have responsibility for.
- We work hard to serve and improve our community.
Respectful and Happy- Treating others as we wish to be treated: polite, listening; calm and tolerant as well as friendly, caring and loving
- We are honest and sincere in everything we do.
- We are approachable, caring and inclusive.
- We make the right choices even when things are hard.
- We are considerate, caring and appreciate others.
- We value different beliefs, cultures and approaches.
Helpful and Kind: Teamwork – Working together in a friendly, caring and loving manner
- We learn from, with and about others.
- We listen to different points of view.
- We work well with others to achieve collective goals.
- We take responsibility when things go wrong and learn from every mistake.
- We share responsibilities and tasks to achieve even better outcomes.
Educational and Welfare Provision for students with EHC Plans and students for whom English is an Additional Language
SSAT Children’s Charter: A Pledge for Children
On Wednesday 26th April 2023 school leaders across all phases and settings, along with partners and organisations joined the online launch of the SSAT Children’s Charter: A Pledge for Children.
SSAT Chief Executive, Sue Williamson, welcomed Professor Barry Carpenter, and Matthew Carpenter, Principal of Baxter College who, together, shared the rationale and context behind the creation of the charter and what our children and young people need now: our response to a reshaped, redefined 21st century childhood.
SSAT, with Professor Barry Carpenter and Matthew Carpenter, led a seminar in December 2022 ‘Thinking about Children’; where leaders from secondary, primary, special schools and universities, together with partner organisations met to consider the daily lived reality of children and young people now, post pandemic, in order to shape the detail within the Children’s Charter.
We are delighted to be able to share our charter and those six principles with you now.
Individually, we all bring our unique experiences and expertise but together we are stronger.
British Values
The Department for Education state that there is a need “to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.”
The government set out its definition of British values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy, and these values have been reiterated by the Prime Minister. At Charlton Park Academy, these values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways:
Democracy
Children and young people have many opportunities for their voices to be heard. We have a school council which meets regularly to discuss issues raised in class. The school council is able to genuinely affect change within the school. The council members for each year group are voted in by their class.
The Rule of Law
The importance of Laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced throughout regular school days, as well as when dealing with behaviour and through school assemblies. Students are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken. Visits from authorities such as the Police and Fire Service help reinforce this message.
Individual Liberty
Within school, students are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for young students to make choices safety, through of provision of a safe environment and empowering education. Students are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and advise how to exercise these safely, for example through our online safety and PSHE lessons.
Whether it be through choice of challenge, of how they record, of participation in our numerous extra-curricular clubs and opportunities, students are given the freedom to make choices.
Mutual Respect
Our behaviour policy has revolves around values such as respect, and students have been part of discussions and assemblies related to what this means and how it is shown. Assemblies and PSHE lessons promote respect for others and this is reiterated through the work in the playground, classroom, learning skills and on the sports field, as well as our behaviour policy.
Students know that it is imperative that respect is shown to everyone, whatever differences we may have.
Tolerance of those of Different Faiths and Beliefs
Respect ensures tolerance of those who have different faiths and beliefs. This is achieved through enhancing students understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society and by giving them opportunities to experience such diversity. Discussions involving prejudices and prejudice-based bullying have been followed and supported by learning in RE and PSHE. Members of different faiths or religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance learning within classes and the school, such as staff or parents leading school assemblies on their faith.
Beliefs, traditions and customs will be studied in depth across the curriculum, with visitors for varying faiths regularly being invited in to our school to enrich and extend understanding. Through this, our students gain an enhanced understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society. Trips that enrich and support tolerance of those of different faiths include; visiting the local synagogue, church and mosque where customs are explained and students had the opportunity to investigate religions different to their own.
