Vision and values

At High Leigh we will enable children to have lives that are full of choices and opportunities. We aim to overcome barriers to success and by having communication as a key driver, we ensure that our children learn unrivalled communication skills and have rich experiences of the wider world.

Reading is at the heart of everything we do as we believe expert readers will be able to open the doors to future knowledge and in turn unlock potential opportunities. Through our curriculum and extra-curricular activities, we hope to inspire our children to follow role models and have high aspirations for themselves. We build in a range of opportunities for our pupils to taste aspiration, to be inspired and to develop an understanding of who they are, who they might be, and exactly what the world has to offer.

Our community is important to us and together we show the children what the future could hold. We want our children to know that they have a voice; can embrace change and challenges; and understand that they have the ability to be whatever they want to be. Their future destination is in their hands and at High Leigh, we hope they will forge their own path to success.

We have three curriculum drivers that permeate everything we do at High Leigh!

Curriculum driver: Aspiration

• Rich experiences and new opportunities
• Challenging stereotypes and any form of discrimination
• Growth Mindset
• Curriculum connections between education and the world of work
• Career pathways
• Identify and develop talent and abilities

Curriculum driver: Reading

• Systematic synthetic phonics programme (Little Wandle)

• Rigorous reading comprehension programme that systematically builds skills and stamina through high quality texts.

• Inspire a love of reading

• Immerse children in quality literature across the curriculum

• Every adult and child is a reader

• Parent engagement

Curriculum driver: Communication

• Explicitly taught and deliberately practiced (speaking and listening, non-verbal communication, conversation etiquette etc.)
• Self-regulation and the ability to express thoughts, feelings and need
• Develops confidence
• Collaborative learning opportunities
• Language rich curriculum Vocabulary development
• Planned opportunities for high quality classroom talk
• Early speech and language intervention