Our Approach
Kettleshulme St James is a CE (VA) Primary School providing a quality education for children between 4+ and 11 years of age. We are a family orientated school, rooted in a Christian community providing high standards of teaching and learning in a stimulating, caring and happy environment. Children at our school will be offered opportunities which will support them now and in the future. They will be:
Emotionally Intelligent
• having developed self esteem, tolerance and caring attitudes
• being independent, confident and having self-discipline
• knowing about their own feelings and the feelings of others
• being able to celebrate success and accept disappointments
Complex Thinkers
• initiators looking for solutions, not problems
• understanding how their brain works
• making informed decisions
• acquiring the skills needed to ‘learn how to learn’
Self Directed Learners
• extending their own study
• showing diligence and sustained concentration
• showing a love of learning and a desire to discover
• understand their own ‘learning style’
Collaborative Workers
• promoting a climate for experimentation
• applying teamwork when appropriate
• using cooperative learning structures effectively
• developing the notion of sustainability
Quality Producers
• showing commitment to tasks
• valuing their work and how it is displayed
• offering models of high quality work and achievement
• acquiring knowledge, skills and understanding
Effective Communicators
• being able to explain their learning in various ways
• using appropriate media to demonstrate learning
• discussing their present needs and future development
To do this the school will develop close working partnerships with parents and provide a creative, practical, child-centred curriculum; a commitment to personalised learning; and, work within the local, village community.