Developing the 'Whole Child'

• We have a strong, whole school focus on our BEST Behaviour rules, our Ferdi Values and our curriculum 'Golden Threads'. This wholistic approach gives our children a firm foundation to build strong social and emotional skills to equip them to be successful learners.
• Our Inclusion Team provides pastoral support for children experiencing difficulties, including issues around bereavement, anxiety, friendships and home concerns. We offer regular 1:1 well-being check ins aswell as more in-depth interventions focussing on developing SEMH skills, tailoring our approach to children's individual needs. 
• Our SEMH provision space, 'The Nest', provides targeted intervention to support key children with the development of positive learning behaviours which will enable them to be successful in the classroom environment.
• Our PSHE curriculum is based on the accredited OneDecision scheme and is tailored by teachers to meet the specific needs of their children.
• Our pupils have the opportunity to take on a range of student-leader roles in school, developing leadership and team-work skills, as well as having a voice on issues which directly affect them. Our current roles are: School Council, Playground Leaders, Anti-Bullying Ambassadors, Reading Leaders and Digital Ambassadors. 
• Our assemblies are carefully planned to expose children to a range of wider topics, including British Values, world faiths and safeguarding messages, for example, road safety.
• Our school takes part in focus weeks/days throughout the academic year which supplement our core curriculum, including Anti-Bullying Week, Inter-faith Week, Internet Safety Day and World Book Day. These events provide children with practical learning opportunities which embed key messages and bring their learning to life.
• We have a robust approach to attendance monitoring, rigorously following statutory procedures to ensure that we are doing all we can to make 'every day count' for every child.
• We offer a range of free extra-curricular activities to enhance our core curriculum offer, including multi-skills, football, NFL, Dodgeball, Rugby skills, Reading, Arts and Crafts, choir and maths clubs.

Community Partnership

• We invite members of the community into school, such as our PCSO, local religious leaders and sports people to lead assemblies/workshops.
• We welcome parents into school for a wide range of parent events over the course of the school year. We offer parent workshops on topics such as SEND, pastoral concerns, phonics and Y6 SATS. Each year-group has a 'learning showcase' where parents can visit school and see their children's learning in action. We also hold regular 'stay and share' events so that children, staff and parents can enjoy being in school together.
• Our School Council is part of the wider 'Morley Schools Council' which meets three times a year at Morley Town Hall to discuss wider issues affecting children in the local area with council leaders.
• The local road safety team regularly visit our school to promote active travel and develop road safety skills. This includes pedestrian training, cycling proficiency and road safety assemblies/workshops.
• Our governors are regular visitors and know our school and our children well. As well as their termly monitoring visits, they also support more informally at parent events and on school trips.
• Our pupils have many opportunities to explore their local environment. Local walks are built into our curriculum offer for history and geography so that children build a secure understanding of the context of where they live. Pupils also visit our local church, a retirement home, Morley library and other local schools to deepen this understanding. 

Understanding the Wider World

• One of our curriculum Golden Threads is to 'Create Global Citizens' and this aim feeds into every subject with the aim of ensuring that our pupils are well-prepared for life in the modern world.
• Through our curriculum, our assembly programme and focus days, we celebrate differences, in race, religion, culture, ability and neurodiversity.
• We teach our pupils the importance of caring for others through our involvement in a range of charity events, both local and national.
• Our pupils develop their knowledge of sustainability and how to protect the environment through carefully planned learning opportunities in the curriculum and through our annual whole-school sustainability project.
• Our older children experience a taste of the 'working world' through our 'Growing talent' career day for Year 6 pupils.