Visions, Values & Aims

It goes without saying that we want our children to reach their potential academically whilst here at Pinewood. But education is about so much more than this. In December 2016 we decided to link our vision and values to a pine tree theme where we provide the roots in order for children to grow and finally have the wings to fly onto the next part of their educational journey. Values are the principles that guide our behaviour and thinking as a school. The values we want to instill in our children here at Pinewood can be seen on the pine cones.

Our school aim is ‘To make learning irresistible’ as this encompasses what we do at Pinewood in order to meet our vision.

Our school prioritises relationships. We really care for each other as a staff team, for our children and our families. Pinewood is a lovely place to be. Our values are not just laminated on classroom walls, they permeate through everything we do and our behaviours as a team. You feel the ethos of our school the second you walk through the door.  We prioritise the inner curriculum as much as the more easily recognisable outer curriculum. We want our children to leave us with academic intelligence, emotional intelligence and ethical intelligence. 

Each special assembly someone is chosen each week from each class for demonstrating one of our school pine cone values. They are given a special star chocolate and a pine cone sticker. alongside our school values we follow the Pinewood promise too.

Our Pinewood Promise

During your time at Pinewood, we want you to be happy, have fun and learn lots so that you are ready for the next part of your educational journey and to be ‘junior school ready’. We also want to ensure that we provide you with certain experiences along the way to help you learn and grow, loving life and being enthused and caring towards others.

We live in an amazing world that we need to cherish and take care of as we grow up and experience lots of different things so we know what excites us as individuals. Our promise to you during your time with us is that you will experience the following and fill up your Pinewood rucksack with amazing experiences to help you continue as enthusiastic and inquisitive explorers through the next part of your educational journey!

During your time at Pinewood you will have an opportunity to:

• Adopt an animal to help preserve endangered species
• Eat lunch in school with a loved one
• Care for an animal
• Find creatures in a pond
• Work with a local artist
• Display your work in an art exhibition
• Watch a theatre production/pantomime
• Visit Pinewood Goose Fair
• Have a water fight!
• Listen to a live musician playing music
• Go on a residential for a sleep over
• Visit a farm or wildlife park
• Grow a plant or a vegetable
• Attend an after school extra-curricular club
• Perform in a ‘Pinewood Studio’s Production’
• Make something out of recycled material
• Have a walk in the woods
• Bake something nice for your family
• Do something good for the local community