At Urmston Junior School, we aim

•      To build an ethos marked by a welcoming, friendly, bright and lively, happy place where learners feel secure.  A place where good behaviour is expected and where learners enjoy growing up.  To make this school a place of enjoyment where success is celebrated and shared.

•     To be an inclusive school that ensures all learners are given equality of opportunity and treated fairly in all aspects of our work.

•     To treat learners as individuals and to differentiate teaching and learning to take account of their needs.

•      To promote and achieve high standards for all by providing teaching and learning of the highest quality, with visits, visitors and the use of the environment to promote enjoyment of learning.

•     To ensure that all learners benefit form a rich, broad, balanced curriculum presented in interesting, imaginative ways with lots of opportunities for first-hand experience, practical work, enquiry and collaborative working.

•     To teach basic skills and core subjects effectively and give opportunities to develop in foundation subjects and R.E., with particular emphasis on creative aspects and enabling connections between subjects to be made and basic skills applied.

•      To provide well for learners’ care, health and safety as well as providing for learners’ physical, mental, social, spiritual, moral and cultural needs, fostering confidence, respect, tolerance and pride in what they do.

•      To give responsibility to learners and develop their self-confidence and independence in meeting challenges in order that they become ambitious learners.

•    To work with learners, parents, carers and the community in maintaining and evaluating the success of the school.