Vision and Values

 

‘We aspire to be our best selves. We are founders of our own story!’

Our Vision:

The school’s vision was formulated with a working party of teachers, teaching assistants, office staff, governors and parents whilst the school undertook a values and vision training day on 3rd January 2023.

 

We are Messingham Primary School. Today, we are nurturing the global citizens of tomorrow. We
passionately believe in equipping our children with the emotional intelligence, maturity and attitudes to
succeed. We have a firm belief that we can make a positive difference in our ever-changing world. We
champion the potential in everyone and each other. Strong relationships are the roots of our success and
high expectations are upheld above everything else. We aspire to be the best version of ourselves.

Values Based Education underpins our school ethos. Great focus is placed on developing well-rounded
individuals who are empathetic, reflective, kind and respectful. Our children thrive in a calm, caring and
happy environment where academic excellence is at the forefront. We provide our children with rich and
varied experiences. Active Learning is a key aspect of our identity, where healthy competition, teamwork,
pride and resilience are encouraged. Through the curriculum and support within our community, children
develop the confidence to become founders of their own stories.

Our motto is ‘Working together to grow our own story

Values based Education at Messingham:

At Messingham Primary School, we strive to be the best versions of ourselves each and every day. We are a Values based Education school which means not only do we work hard academically, we are passionate about becoming well-rounded, kind and understanding young people who will have positive impacts around school, within the community and in the wider world. The staff and children at Messingham Primary School all work hard on developing our understanding of the values and try to show these in all we do. This could be in everyday tasks, no matter a tiny gesture or a conscious act of kindness, to show that we are considering others as well as working on improving ourselves.  Each month, we have a value of the month that we learn about through lessons, assemblies and home school challenges.

Throughout the school year, each class has an opportunity to invite our grown-ups from home into school to share and celebrate our values through group activities, games, coffee and cake! We love events like this where we can share our school life with our families!

We have three Year 6 Values Ambassadors in school who support with Values based Education whilst also working to support charities and our local community. We also work closely with our Wellbeing Governor, Mrs Remond to ensure Values are working effectively and all of us here at Messingham feel valued in all that we do.

What our children say about our values :

Thomas Y6 – “I love Values because if we didn’t have values I wouldn’t have as many friends. Resilience helps me when I am stuck on challenging questions – it helps me keep going. Independence is my favourite value because it helps me take responsibility for myself. I also like teamwork because it helps me play football which I love.”
Lexi Y4 – “My favourite value is respect because if nobody respected each other, our school or anything it would be chaos! It helps us be better people and make good choices.This is really important.” 
Oscar Y3 – “I think that resilience is a really important value because it helps you keep going even when things are tricky. You can use it at school, at home and even when you are a grown up too. It doesn’t matter if you make a mistake because you can just try and try again.”
Evie Y3 – “My favourite value is empathy because it helps me be a good friend. I love values and I love all of them! I love school because I have all of my friends who show their values too!”
Belle Y6  – “Kindness is my favourite value because it is most important to be kind than anything else. You can achieve anything if you are kind and use it everywhere at any time. Values make Messingham a better place because it helps us when things are tricky and helps us make magical friendships.”