St Jude's Church of England Primary School Blog

Welcome all, to the new Senior Team Blog!

It’s a pleasure to be given the opportunity to write a regular post to keep our families and friends up to date with the exciting things happening at St Jude’s.

I’m very pleased to be able to start this post by sharing our exciting new vision.

Last week the Senior Team had some time together to work on our new School Improvement Plan (that we will share with you very soon) and to talk about how we were moving forward as a school. We went right back to the start and spent some time looking at our vision and values statement. While we all agree that our four values of Love, Honesty, Forgiveness and Hope underpin everything we do, we decided that our Vision statement had become a little cloudy and needed a tweak so it was shorter, easier to remember and could become a starting point for all discussions. We came up with some ideas and shared a draft with the staff last week- after a final few adjustments I am pleased to present our new Vision Statement.

Vision Statement

Awe and wonder sit at the heart of the St Jude’s family. All adults and children work together to create thriving, independent, passionate people who have a fired imagination and a love of learning. We believe that we all learn best when we are happy, safe, valued and inspired to take on the challenges of God’s world.

We are sure you will agree that although similar to our previous vision, this is clearer and really promotes the sort of learning and learner that we strive for. With awe and wonder as our opening line, we are spending time with teachers and subject leaders planning to inject some real excitement into our curriculum- so watch this space…marvellous things coming very soon!

On the second of our SIT days, we were joined in the morning by Reverend Mike Duff of St Jude’s Church who worked with us as we evaluated the distinct Christian character of the school. Last week children bought home a questionnaire regarding this and we look forward to finding out what our parents and carers think are our strengths and areas for development. We also spent some time sharing our new Collective Worship plans and talking about how the Big Questions we ask each week are promoting deep thinking, shared viewpoints and spirituality. We hope you are enjoying the Big Questions also and feel they are a great family conversation starter.

Here is what some of our children thought about our first Big Question- “Is God always happy”?

Year R - "Yes, he's happy because he sent his message into a stone and I picked up the stone and it whispered into my ear-'he is happy because he's always got us'". 

Year 3- "Yes, because when people do things wrong it's not his fault".

 

Year 5 -  "God cannot be happy all the time because of all the bad things that happen in the world like rich and poor, homelessness, selfishness, disease and starvation". 

Our Big Question this week is- “What does love look like?” and as I write this I can hear Mrs Eldrid leading Key Stage one Collective Worship and discussing the children’s ideas about love, and … if I’m not mistaken I can hear whispers of The Beatles- All you need is Love, in the background.

What a great way to start a Tuesday!
Izzy Lewis