OUR AIMS

To achieve the best standards possible for all our students by:

* Providing structured academic programs of study
* Tracking and monitoring children?s progress throughout Their years at Dunham hill school
* Delivering a broad and balanced curriculum
* Providing regular homework which is appropriate to the needs of the individual and which will include home reading, spelling, English and mathematics ( literacy and numeracy)
* Reporting children?s progress to parents on a regular basis
* Establishing partnerships with parents to provide children with the support and encouragement needed to achieve their potential
* Providing for, and tailoring learning support, to individual pupil needs.

To develop lively, inquiring minds which equip children to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world by:

* Developing confidence in the use of language and number
* Promoting and valuing pupil?s creative potential through participation in the arts
* Seeking to identify and to value the children?s strengths and talents
* Encouraging the children?s ability to question, and providing them with the opportunities to discuss issues rationally
* Showing pupils that ideas may be communicated in a variety of ways.

To develop self respect, respect for others, a sense of responsibility and independence by :

* Creating a safe, secure, caring and supportive ethos in which all are valued
* Providing a stimulating and varied learning environment
* Helping pupils to respond positively to the cultural and ethnic diversity of modern society
* Helping pupils to recognise their roles and responsibilities in the care of both the local and global environment
* Fostering children?s appreciation of human achievements and aspirations.