Ethos: Be the best you can.
Vision: All children succeed beyond expectations.
Mission: We are committed to offering a safe and inclusive environment where learning opportunities are fun and challenging but supported. We are committed to nurturing individual talents and abilities to ensure that each day, children are successful. We encourage independence and all our children to be kind, and resilient, so that each child’s ‘Manby Journey’ is a happy one.
Our Values
Our values are woven into our Mission Statement above. These values were agreed on following work with all staff and Governors.
Our Behaviour Expectations
Safe Ready Respectful
These three words underpin all that we do, and are how children and adults should behave at Manby Lodge. All kinds of behaviour can be described using these words.
Learning Animals
At Manby Lodge we also place great importance on seven ‘Learning Animals’ which we know support children to be the best learners that they can, now and for the rest of their lives.
The seven Learning Animals are:
-Resilient Tortoise -Responsible Penguin
-Reasoning Dolphin -Resourceful Beaver
-Reflective Owl -Playing & Exploring Kitten
-Hygienic Pig
The Animals are based on the Characteristics of Effective Learning, which are a fundamental aspect of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS).
Three characteristics of effective teaching and learning are:
playing and exploring – children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’;
active learning – children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements; and
creating and thinking critically – children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.
These animal characters help our children to remember the key characteristics that will help them with learning, not only while they are in Year R, but as they move through Year 1 and Year 2.
For example children are resourceful because they know what they need to help them in their learning and where to find them (e.g. pencils, rulers, word book for spellings.) Click on this link for more examples.
These values, expectations and Learning Animals enable children to develop positive social and communication skills. These skills are applied to the relationships and friendships they form with their peers and adults in school which in turn creates a positive school ethos where the climate is calm and conducive to learning.
Our pupils take on moral responsibilities; they care for each other, demonstrate good manners, show consideration and become trustworthy young people who respect each other.
The experiences offered every day at Manby Lodge provide a good foundation to develop children’s academic and creative abilities as their efforts are valued and learning has a sense of purpose. Children are given the tools to equip them for the future both at school and as young adults.
Here’s what our children think:
Be the best you can
