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We care, learn, discover and grow together, aspiring to make a difference to our own lives and to those of others.

Motivated and inspired by the parable of the Good Samaritan, Luke 10:25-37, we give our all, to all, through our embedded Christian values. Our pupils and staff aspire to embody these, in everything they do, reflecting, and striving to be the best they can be. We value and encourage the contribution that our pupils and all stakeholders make to our school and the wider community, regardless of background, culture or faith. Striving to enthuse and inspire our pupils, we challenge and support their growth into respectful; confident; independent; self-motivated and curious individuals.  We 'live' together as a family of individuals of inherent value, celebrating our differences and dwelling together in unity.

Our tagline:

‘Learning together for life, life in all its fullness’

Our vision and tagline are theologically-rooted in the parable of the Good Samaritan, (Luke 10:25-37), complimented by (John 10:10) ‘Jesus came so that we may have life, life in all it’s fullness.’. Our vision and values underpin all we do, ensuring we give all, to all and live our fullest life.

The Good Samaritan was a man of compassion, courage and responsibility, who took it upon himself to do the right thing by others. Even in times of discontent and when it felt unnerving to do so, he was still courageous in the choices he made. He helped more than just his friends, because he believed it was important to value everybody, whoever they were.  Without hesitation, he took responsibility when another was in need, because it was just the right thing to do. He made a difference, not just to one person, but to many communities who heard of the humanity he showed.

Modelling ourselves both on the Samaritan and equally through the eyes of the robbed man, we will demonstrate: Christian love, in action; respect, for ourselves and for those around us; forgiveness, towards those who we perceive have wronged us; hope, in the face of adversity and that we can make a difference; friendship, in the way we treat others; peace as we care for and are cared by others and trust that we are valued as individuals and belong as individuals in our own right and of inherent worth.

Inspired by the Good Samaritan, who ‘achieved excellence through the pursuit of good’, we seek to ‘Go and do likewise.’ (Luke 10:37). We have a long-standing tradition of recognising and celebrating Samaritan nature throughout all aspects of school life including regularly awarding certificates, highlighting ‘Samaritan’ acts, commending examples of our values in action and awarding annual cups, recognising individual excellence.

Our vision is underpinned by our core Christian values.

Our Vision explained:

We care, learn, discover and grow together.

We 'live' together as a family of individuals of inherent value, celebrating our differences and dwelling together in unity.

The Good Samaritan parable demonstrates to the children that regardless of person's background or belief, each person is a valuable being who needs supporting and loving.

Jesus tells us to, 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' (Luke 10:27). 

We believe that each child is made in the image of God and welcome every child, regardless of history, socio-economic background, special educational need, disability or ethnicity, to be a unique and important part of our school family.  In our daily lives this is lived out through our Christian values, empathetic attitudes, respectful behaviour and caring actions towards others. At our school, we believe love comes first. It is the foundation of who we are and all we do. 

We teach children to love first; 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' Luke 10:27 and to show love in their words and in their deeds, treating everyone with dignity and respect, following the Golden Rule ‘Treat others as you would wish to be treated.’ 

Everyone deserves a voice and to feel like they belong, and we value and celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, made in the image of God. We ensure our stakeholders seek to challenge social injustice as advocates for those without a voice.

We show children how to forgive and how to reconcile.

‘Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ, God forgave you.’ Ephesians 4:32 

Our Curriculum is connected to termly whole school golden threads (lenses through which to view and consider learning and experience):

Our autumn term golden thread is

Know Yourself, Love Yourself, Love Your Neighbour

‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ (Luke 10:27)

This is linked closely to identity and a sense of belonging.

We belong to a community of learners, a family, who ‘spur one another on toward love and good deeds’ Hebrews 10:24. 

We pride ourselves on knowing each individual child across school well and truly valuing their inherent worth. Children are encouraged to celebrate and be proud of their unique qualities and skills.

We aim to inspire children to care, learn, discover and grow together with joy, curiosity and enthusiasm, and to strive for excellence in all they do. We seek to foster a true sense of awe and wonder, going beyond the prescribed curriculum and ensuring all, particularly in the younger classes, have the opportunity to further their own learning, developing their ability to self-motivate, and strive to follow their own path. Our children are curious, asking questions, responding to wide-ranging inspiration and being aware of something ‘bigger’ than them and ‘bigger’ than what they can see or are provided with firsthand.

We build in opportunities for children of all ages and staff across school to work together regularly and spending time together celebrating the upholding of our values and vision forms a core part of our behaviour approach. Children in year five become buddies to our new reception children each year and that relationship is further developed, continuing as they move into years six and one. Opportunities to talk, planning, exploring, developing thoughts and opinions and to work collaboratively are built into all parts of school life, enabling children to delve deeper and to develop key listening skills alongside.

Striving to enthuse and inspire our pupils, we challenge and support their growth into respectful; confident; independent; self-motivated and curious individuals. 

Promoting the value of community and living well together, we recognise the interconnectedness of all life and the importance of identity, belonging, relationships and stewardship. We consciously and instinctively thread our values through all we do and focus on developing the whole person, challenging and supporting their growth into the very best them they can be.

We develop children’s wisdom, knowledge and skills – inspiring a love of learning that goes beyond knowing facts, following instructions and carrying out tasks, to developing independence and resourcefulness so that children are prepared when they are in an unplanned or unfamiliar situations. We develop character virtues that take children beyond the school gates and help them to make good and wise choices when faced with tough situations, just like the good Samaritan. Our children are respectful of differing opinions and confident to make their own choices rather than feeling they need to follow the herd.

…who aspire to make a difference to our own lives and to those of others.’

In The Good Samaritan, Jesus teaches us the values of respect, bringing dignity and making a difference to the life of an individual despite cultural differences. ‘But a Samaritan, as he travelled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.’ (Luke 10: 33)

Our vision is underpinned by social action opportunities provided in class and beyond, teaching our children how to have a voice and to be courageous advocates of change in the wider world.

‘Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise.’ (Luke 10: 37) The parable emphasises that God entrusts to us the worthy duty of caring for our world and those within it.  

Through our wide curriculum, encompassing wider elements such as class charity projects, we aim to provide our children with the skills to foster compassionate action and empower them to live socially just lives, following the example of The Good Samaritan. 

Our whole school spring Golden Thread is ‘One World. Our World. A World For All.’

‘The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it.’ (Psalm 24:1)

We recognise our wider responsibility in ensuring our stakeholders become good neighbours to all and harness the powerful and valuable positive influence of our children. We seek to provide a balanced, well rounded and rich experience, broadening and deepening our children’s awareness and view of the wider world.

We are a small, rural school, tucked away in a village, and it is our responsibility to broaden their perspectives and be interested and inquisitive about the wider world, diverse cultures and beliefs and the views, opinions and perspectives of others. We work closely with members of our local clergy, including our local Padre, with several delivering collective worships and spirituality sessions across school. We seek to widen our pupils’ perspectives further by providing pupil workshops linked to special times in the church liturgical calendar, including Advent and Lent and invite other speakers into school, for example a representative from our local mosque, a member of our local Jewish community and an ‘Islam in Britain Today’ whole school workshop. Our year five and six children and their parents are invited to a communion service each year to help them to see the service firsthand and live out an experience they may not otherwise see beyond taught content.

We ensure a broad and balanced curriculum is never narrowed and strive to cover a wide range of diverse history and geography in a progressive, age-appropriate way, linking these to our golden threads as a lens to view them through and helping pupils to make connections between their current learning, previous learning and what other classes in school are covering. Our art curriculum provides opportunity to explore, discuss and consider the work of a range of diverse artists that they may not otherwise be aware of.

We mark special days and weeks e.g. Earth Day and Science Week, carefully balancing these with the expected curriculum coverage and we utilise local expertise to enhance opportunities e.g. representatives from our local RAF camp assisting with a science day.

We also seek to develop our pupils’ reflection and creativity, broadening their ability to maintain good mental health and wellbeing and objectivity, grasping opportunities for our children to experience opportunities beyond the classroom recognising our role in ensuring all in our school experience life beyond our small, rural village, investing in them and their growth as individuals.

We aspire to make a difference to our own lives and to those of others.

Our whole school summer Golden Thread is ‘Be the Change’

‘And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need.’ (Hebrews 13:16)

‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world.’ Inspired by the words of Mahatma Gandhi

We maintain a key focus on developing our children’s emotional intelligence and their ability to reason and justify, armed with a broad vocabulary.

Ensuring our children can further develop their understanding of responsibility, we have many pupil groups in school and our Reading Mentors is the most popular one. Children apply for the hotly contested responsible roles and go through a presentation and interview process to gain one, providing a valuable rehearsal at a key life skill.

Other pupil groups include, but are not limited to, our school house committee, voted in democratically by peers as part of our recognition of British Values; a Stay Safe Squad with members chosen both due to their vulnerability regarding road safety and online safety or due to their strength of knowledge, understanding or ability to positively impact others; Spiritual Gang, who are instrumental in shaping, delivering, evaluating and monitoring collective worships and helping to embed our values throughout school and our Health Ambassadors, who help to encourage and model healthy living, exercise and teamwork and help to shape and deliver our annual sports day, intraschool sport competitions and house competitions.

Our pupils are encouraged and given opportunity to undertake a social action project inspired by a local issue or any of the learning they have experienced during the school year. We use the Archbishop of York’s Young Leaders’ Award as a support and model of a project and to develop pupil’s understanding of how they can work effectively. Our pupils have a strong moral compass and are proactive in actioning change in school. Our set of litter pickers were purchased in response to a pupil letter and are now regularly borrowed by pupils at weekends and holidays so that they can go litter picking with their families at local villages, beaches and woodlands and positively impact on their ’neighbours’. Classes nominate charities that they will support for the academic year and as part of this, they are encouraged to write to the charity and conduct research to find out more about their work, organise an event to raise funds or raise the profile and then to share what they have learnt with other classes. Charities have included: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust; a school formed charity providing coffee mornings, performances, craft workshops etc. with more isolated members of our community; Ukraine war effort; our local nursery; NSPCC; Little Princess Trust; Guide Dogs and many, many others.

Our Spiritual Gang seek out opportunities to help our local community, including by supporting our nearest foodbanks with tinned and packeted donations received at our Harvest Festival celebrations each year. Wherever possible, they find out what items are most needed to help inform the most effective donations and deliver this produce themselves, helping to stock the shelves and asking questions to fully understand the good work these organisations do within the community. This allows them to consequently share their wider knowledge with the rest of the school.

We believe we offer a curriculum provision that is ambitious and aspirational for all and that will enhance the cultural capital of every child and family. We strive to ensure children are as ready as they can be for the transition to their secondary setting and equipped with life skills that will ensure their success as individual human beings with unique and inherent value.

Being open to changing our thinking leads to changing our behaviour so that we can change the world. Both the good Samaritan and Jesus are our role models as inspiring change-makers. Change-makers bring people and communities and together, they solve problems and create impact.

We aim for children to become inspiring change-makers who use their learning to serve and make a positive difference in the world, helping to ensure it is just.

Living out our vision and values in all that we do will ensure our pupils develop the academic skills and intellectual habits to flourish as individuals who are equipped to ‘learn together for life, life in all its fullness’.

Promoting British Values

At Kirkby on Bain CE Primary School, we understand that the society we live in is diverse and therefore, our curriculum and life within school reflects this. For our pupils, we aim to continually weave the thread of social, cultural, moral and spiritual British values throughout day-to-day school life. Underpinning this are the values and understanding of democracy, law, liberty, respect, tolerance, tradition and heritage. The ‘Equality Act 2010’ protects all individuals from discrimination and it is the schools duty to ensure that all individuals have equal access and opportunity to all that is on offer. Funding, including that for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and disadvantaged pupils, is used to target inequalities, to ensure equality and equity.

At our school, we uphold and teach pupils about British Values which are defined as:

• ·  Democracy
• ·  Rule of Law
• ·  Individual Liberty
• ·  Mutual respect
• ·  Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

These values are taught explicitly through Personal Social Health and Emotional (PHSE) and Religious Education (RE) lessons and heavily link to our whole school golden threads. We also teach British Values through planning and delivering a broad and balanced curriculum.

The school takes opportunities to actively promote British values through our daily collective worships and the whole school systems and structures such as electing and successfully running a School Council. We also actively promote British values by ensuring that our curriculum planning and delivery includes real opportunities for exploring these values. Actively promoting British values means challenging pupils, staff or parents expressing opinions contrary to fundamental British values including extremist views.

At our school, British Values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways:

Democracy

Democracy is embedded within life at our school. Pupils are always listened to by adults and are taught to listen carefully and with concern to each other, respecting the right of every individual to have their opinions and voices heard. The elections of our House Committee members are based solely on pupil votes, reflecting our British electoral system and demonstrating democracy in action. Pupils also have the opportunity to air their opinions and ideas and have their voices heard through their representatives, talking directly to a member of staff, by using the school postbox and pupil questionnaires. The committee meets with our headteacher to discuss any issues raised/to share the views of their class. The committee and other pupil groups, such as our Spiritual Gang and Reading Mentors are genuinely able to effect change within our school.

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 collective worships. Our children are aware of the consequences of not following the rules in our school community. Our children learn to understand the difference between right and wrong in all aspects of school life throughout the day. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that laws govern and protect us; the responsibilities that are involved and the consequences faced when laws are broken.

We have our own Junior Online Safety Officers (JOSOs) and Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) who provide support and advice across our school community as part of our Stay Safe Squad.

To encourage and promote good behaviour, attitude and work, we use a clear behaviour system that is consistently followed throughout the school. As a school, we are committed to praising children’s efforts. We endeavour to praise the children informally, individually, during group work, in front of the whole class, the whole school and our wider school community. Children are rewarded not only for achievement in curriculum areas, but also for positive behaviour and personal successes. Rewards are given in the form of stickers, house points and certificates. Children’s achievements are also recognised during weekly celebration collective worships.

Individual Liberty

At our school, our pupils 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 our pupils to make informed choices, through a safe environment and an empowering education. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our teaching of online safety and PSHE lessons and through whole class projects, such as the DAaRT program. Our children are encouraged to give their opinions and share these ideas with due regard and respect for the feelings of others. As part of our PSHE curriculum, we place a huge emphasis on the social and emotional learning of our children and feel we send them on to their secondary school as well-rounded individuals. We implement a strong anti-bullying culture and any instances perceived as bullying are dealt with promptly.

Whether it be through choice of challenge; how they record their work or participation in our numerous extra-curricular clubs and opportunities, pupils are given the freedom to make choices and to respect the decisions and choices of others.

Mutual Respect

Mutual respect is at the heart of our values. Children learn that their behaviours have an effect on their own rights and on those of others. All members of the school community treat each other with respect.

Posters around the school promote our Golden Values encouraging respect for others and this is reiterated through our classroom and learning approaches, as well as through our behaviour policy. Pupils challenge each other when they are not showing respect and encourage each other to be respectful. Our values are upheld across school and our pupils follow and uphold them with great pride.

Tolerance of Different Faiths and Beliefs

This is achieved through enhancing pupils understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society and by giving them opportunities to experience such diversity. Through our RE curriculum, which teaches the main faiths and focuses on learning about religion and from religion, and through exploration of our whole school golden threads, we actively promote diversity, learning about celebrations of different faiths and cultures. Religious Education lessons and PSHE lessons reinforce messages of tolerance and respect for others.

British Traditions and Heritage

We celebrate the role of Britain, both historically and in the present. We want pupils to have knowledge of, and be proud of, their British heritage and the cultural and historical traditions that we are renowned for the world over. This involves celebrating royal events, Remembrance Day, festivals such as Harvest, Christmas, Easter and celebrations linked to other religions. We regularly visit our local church, including specifically to mark these celebrations.