Our Sandal Castle Primary School Vision...

 At Sandal Castle Primary School we build strong futures together. We celebrate and prepare our inclusive community by providing the education and experiences needed, as the building blocks for foundations for life. We empower everyone to be successful, resilient, and self-aware global citizens. Together, in God’s love, we nurture hearts, minds, and spirit, to equip everyone with wisdom, character and hope, in order to flourish.

 

Our Theological Underpinning: 

Our school motto places emphasis on the importance of providing every opportunity for our children to ‘build strong futures’. It highlights the importance of ‘togetherness’ as unity is strength. We truly believe that we should all love, respect and support each other. We are a school community and we are a family. We learn together, we care for each other and we know that by working with God, to be the best that we can be, every member of our learning community can flourish.  We are proud to be a Church of England School and our Vision is firmly rooted in the example and teaching of Jesus.

As a Church of England school, we believe in the importance of strong foundations.  Jesus is described as the cornerstone of our faith (Ephesians 2:20-22) and we are encouraged as Christians to build wisely in our lives (1 Corinthians 3:11-17).

 

At Sandal Castle, our logo is of our local landmark, a ruined castle, which has stood on a rock for hundreds of years.  The castle’s continued strength throughout storms and battles speaks to us of the resilience and solidity we can have when we have strong foundations.  We are inspired by the example of Jesus who found peace and strength in the midst of storms (Mark 4:35-41).

 

 

Jesus’ parable about the wise and foolish builders (Matthew 7:24-27) ends his most famous teaching, the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7).  He uses the story to illustrate the importance of putting into practice our learnings in life – being doers not just hearers of good teaching.

 Our belief at Sandal Castle Primary, is that we prepare children for their futures by enabling them to build strong foundations – specifically in the way that children interact with opportunities for learning.

 

(Reverend Hannah Smith)