OUR SHARED VISION

We know that education in our school only takes 4 years but, hopefully, will develop a love of learning that lasts a lifetime.

At Nettleham Infant and Nursery School, we aspire to be an example of the best kind of school – one that creates great people. Staff filled with enthusiasm and passion alongside children immersed in a culture of sky-high expectation, relentless learning inside a caring, happy community.

Developing the building blocks for life-long learning is complex. Embedding and applying the knowledge and skills required to be exceptional is very demanding. At Nettleham Infant and Nursery School we know that these things don’t happen by accident but by hard work. We are always striving to build a bigger me.

Our ADULTS are professionally inspired, motivated, morally driven and provided with the conditions under which they are truly incredible. We ensure they are not inundated with unnecessary workload. Our professional capital is only outweighed by our professional happiness.

Our CHILDREN are curious, creative and courageous. They thrive in challenge and soar when they are at the centre of their learning. Simply put, they are amazing every day. No challenge is too big, no problem too difficult; they know what they are doing, why they are doing it and how they can be better. They are partners in the learning process – ALWAYS challenged, engaged and moving forward.

OUR SHARED VALUES

At Nettleham Infant and Nursery School we believe that children can achieve their personal best through the teaching and modelling of values and learning attitudes. Our 6 core values – Friendship, Honesty, Respect, Happiness, Kindness and bringing them all together with Community - drive and shape every aspect of school life, and have taken the place of school ‘rules’. We also believe that children need to develop key learning attitudes to help them succeed – Creativity, Resilience and Wellbeing.

Traditionally schools use words to explain values to children but we want to help the children understand the associated feelings and emotions that might arise from the values in a more visual way. In order to make our school values accessible to – and understood by – the children and their families we have created our Values characters. 

We use these characters to talk about our values with the children.  Each week we recognise and celebrate children, who demonstrate and promote our values, across the school. 

Our values are at the heart of our learning.