Our Ethos and Vision

Our Mission (The reason for the school's existence)
At Great Linford Primary School we believe in the motto: 'Aspire - Achieve - Thrive - Enjoy' because this encapsulates everything that we aim to do.

Our 'ROOTS' approach:
 Our children, staff and families will be characterised as demonstrating our five ‘ROOTS’
Respect All
  • Great Linford children, staff and families show respect for other people, animals and their environment.
Overcome Challenges
  • Great Linford children, staff and families are all learners who continue to grow by believing they can and never giving up.
Open Minds
  • Great Linford children, staff and families are all learners who try new ideas and grow their thinking, curiosity and imagination.
Take Care
  • Great Linford children, staff and families value and take care of their bodies and minds and those of others.
Speak Kindly
  • Great Linford children, staff and families speak kindly to others to show they value the opinions of all.

Vision for our curriculum

At Great Linford Primary we are building a challenging curriculum that fosters a passion for lifelong learning by following these principles:
Meaningful
  • Gives key skills and knowledge acquired by the children a real application and purpose
  • Makes clear connections between subjects to enable learning to stick
Knowledge and skills based
  • Is fully and carefully sequenced, building knowledge and skills year-on-year
  • Demonstrates high expectations in all subjects
  • Challenges children to excel
  • Embeds technology across the curriculum with children having the knowledge and skills to communicate effectively and keep themselves safe
Develops thinking skills
  • Fosters creativity in the thinking of our children and encourages them to ask questions
  • Challenges the children to find resourceful ways to solve problems
  • Enables the children to think critically and reflect on their learning so that they can identify their own next steps forward
Social Responsibility
  • Allows children to understand their rights and responsibilities within their school, local, national and global communities
  • Fosters reciprocity between children as they work collaboratively to achieve common goals
  • Strengthens self-esteem as they take pride in their work, appearance and school
Broad and balanced
  • Allows children to express themselves in a variety of ways: physically, artistically, musically etc.
  • Provides quality cultural experiences for all of our children
  • Provides opportunities for every pupil to succeed

British Values