Mission Statement for Barfield Prep School
Barfield Preparatory School, in partnership with the parents, seeks to prepare the children for their future by providing them with the knowledge and skills which will enable them to achieve their full potential in a stimulating, challenging and caring environment.
Our Aims:
We the staff, governors and wider school community aim to encourage each and every child in all aspects of learning by:
- Nurturing natural curiosity and a desire to learn.
- Offering an exciting, challenging and creative curriculum.
- Recognising the needs of each child, to support their holistic development.
- Developing their self-respect and confidence so that all pupils develop habits of self discipline, and acceptable behaviour, while beginning to make moral judgments.
- Providing a safe and caring learning environment to acquire and use new skills.
- Respecting the opinions, beliefs and values of others.
- Motivating each child to strive and achieve without undue pressure.
- Acknowledging effort and rewarding achievement.
Your child will leave Barfield Prep School happy, confident and eager to further their education in an ever-changing world.
Our Objectives:
- To have high expectations for learning and attainment explicit to pupils, parents, teachers and Governors and establish standards for the performance of all pupils in every subject area.
- To use these standards to set targets for improvement, measure progress and monitor performance of pupils.
- To provide clear, full and statutory entitlement for learning for all pupils in every subject area.
- To determine the content of teaching, set standards for learning for every year group and determine how performance will be assessed and reported.
- To continually monitor staff performance, encourage staff development and promote a positive teaching environment.
