To encourage such development we seek to:

• establish a happy and secure educational environment, based on respect and trust.
• provide a broad and balanced curriculum
• offer challenging and stimulating learning experiences
• acknowledge that children of this age move towards the point where they can reason or think in an abstract manner by having opportunities to learn from direct experience (learning by doing)
• ensure that learning experiences are developmental and appropriate to the needs of the individual
• recognise that each child is an individual and that development will occur at different rates, at different times and in different ways for each pupil
• arouse curiosity and develop initiative self-reliance and acceptance of responsibility
• identify and address the potential of every child
• encourage positive relationships
• encourage parents to feel that the successful education of their children involves a close partnership between them and the school
• take every opportunity to foster positive social and moral attitudes