Purpose, Aim & Values

• PSHE
• Special Education

Iffley's Purpose, Aim & Values

Our Purpose

To educate, inspire and celebrate our students so they are able to reach their full potential: as active citizens within a community; as resilient and successful learners; as valued employees; as confident and independent individuals.

Our Aims

• Community
• Independence
• Communication
• Employment
• Education for Life
• Behaviours for Learning

Our Values

• Respect
• Confidence
• Responsibility
• Reflection
• Resilience
• Individuality

Here are the key words that summarise Iffley's main aims.  

Let's take a look at each of Iffley's aims in a bit more detail....

Community

We believe that all our students are unique individuals who have their own contribution to make to the life of the academy, their friends, their family and their wider community.

What words come to mind when you hear the word 'community'?

What 'communities' are you part of?

Independence

We believe that all our students must access and be taught independent skills, so as they develop, they can make informed choices about their next steps and personal aspirations.

What is your understanding of the word 'independence'?

Name some ways that you show independence

Communication

We believe that all our students have a right and need to be able to effectively communicate with others; to express need, to build and develop relationships, to be active citizens within a community and to make choices.

Name some different ways that you can communicate.

Employment

We believe that to empower all our students and to support them into adulthood, they require key skills associated with gaining and maintaining employment. They need to know their strengths and passions and how these can support employment opportunities.

What job would you like to do in the future?

Education for Life

We believe that all our students should access a challenging and stimulating curriculum which meets individual learning need, is motivating, inspires personal interests and develops the core skills students need to fully access the world around them.

What do you most love learning about? (What are your favourite subjects)

What would like like to learn more about at school?

Behaviours for Learning

We believe that our students need to learn about emotional regulation, so they are able to make the most of all learning opportunities, be confident individuals, and be able to support their own emotional needs as they progress into adulthood.

What do you think are positive behaviours for learning in school?

Our Values

• Respect
• Confidence
• Responsibility
• Reflection
• Resilience
• Individuality

Here are the key words that summarise Iffley's main core values.

These key words are displayed on the class information board. We will remind ourselves of these regularly.

Name some values that are important to you in your life.

Which of the following is one of Iffley's key values?

1. Respect
2. Dishonesty
3. Selfishness
4. Greed

Which of the following is NOT one of Iffley's key values?

1. Confidence
2. Resilience
3. Individuality
4. Selfishness

Iffley's Aim

Iffley's Value

Community

Employment

Education for Life

Behaviours for Learning

Communication

Independence

I understand what Iffley's main aims are

Yes, all of them

Some of them

None of them

I don't understand what an aim is

I understand and can name what Iffley's main core values are

All of them

Some of them

None of them

I don't know what a value is