Sir John Sherbrooke Junior School

Striving to be the best we can be

Vision and Aims

Our Ethos

Sir John Sherbrooke Junior School is a ‘Take Care’ school: we take care of ourselves, our work, each other and the world around us. We provide a broad range of opportunities through our curriculum and enrichment activities to enable the profound personal development of every child so that they can achieve ‘Beyond Expectations’.

We have exceptionally high expectations for ourselves and the children and we constantly strive to be the very best that we can be in all that we do. We promote our ‘Take Care Values’ at every opportunity and celebrate when we see these being actively demonstrated ensuring a meaningful and active value system.

Our Vision

We believe that all children have the potential to achieve ‘Beyond Expectations’ and endeavour, through our provision, to equip each child with the confidence and skills they need to be both academically and socially successful to prepare them for life beyond school. With this in mind, the staff team created a set of Key Curriculum ‘Drivers’ setting our aim for all SJS children to BE: articulate, aspirational, adaptable, resilient, Take Care citizens.

We will accomplish this by:

• Promoting and celebrating our ‘Take Care Values’
• Raising and sustaining high expectations
• Developing an inclusive, engaging, experiential, creative and high challenge curriculum
• Delivering ‘Quality First’ teaching
• Working in partnership with external experts, providers and other schools
• Creating a culture of opportunity
• Supporting children to enjoy taking risks in their learning to maximise their experience and outcomes
• Enhancing the environment
• Promoting community involvement
• Involving parents and carers at every opportunity in the life of the school and in their children’s learning
• Rigorous self-evaluation within a culture of continuous improvement