About Us

We are a partnership of six primary schools, one secondary school and one children's centre. We have the advantage by being situated near Oxford City centre and can therefore benefit from the rich learning experiences within this famous historic city.

We demonstrate our commitment to working as a partnership learning community by creating schools which welcome children and families of all backgrounds, abilities and cultures.

Working Together

We promote excellence through partnership activities for both staff and children. Our partnership approach towards our children’s education gives our children a strong sense of community, responsibility and commitment empowering them to make considered, confident and informed choices in the future.

We provide children with a range of inter-school activities throughout the year that promote the enjoyment of learning and to ensure the smooth transfer of children from Primary to Secondary School.

We believe that each child will succeed through experiencing:

A safe, welcoming and caring environment
An ethos of support, challenge and encouragement to succeed
A broad and challenging curriculum suited to the needs of all children
A stimulating learning culture
A diverse range of learning resources including up to date technologies
Learning partnerships between schools, homes, and community
A range of teaching and learning styles
Extra-curricular activities and visits

Mission Statement

Our aim is to nurture all children to enable them to fully realise their potential and to grow in self esteem within our separate schools through working together in close partnership. We will achieve this through sharing expertise, knowledge, experiences and resources. Together we can develop all the schools within the Partnership to achieve the highest possible standards within a happy, secure and supportive community.

Aims

The needs, interests and safety of children take priority in all that we do. West Oxford Schools Partnership promotes high personal achievement and life-long learning by working with children to instil a love of learning and to:

Be confident communicators
Develop enquiring minds
Become motivated, independent learners
Respect themselves, others and their environment
Achieve their potential in all areas of the curriculum
Be flexible and adaptable, and have a positive attitude to change

Extended schools are essential if every child is to reach his or her potential. They are central to achievement of the objectives in the Children’s Plan and are at the heart of Every Child Matters (ECM), raising standards by ensuring that children:

are healthy
stay safe
enjoy and achieve
make a positive contribution
achieve economic well-being

The core offer of extended services is made up of five elements:

childcare (in primary and special schools)
a varied menu of activities including study, sport and music clubs
parenting support including family learning
swift and easy access to targeted and specialist services, and
community access to facilities including adult and family learning, ICT and sports facilities.

What’s on offer depends on local demand through consulting with our pupils, families, our staff and the wider communities. If it can’t be offered on site, it can usually be offered at a nearby venue.

Every Child Matters

Every Child Matters is a shared programme of change to improve outcomes for all children and young people. It takes forward the Government's vision of radical reform for children, young people and families.

In 2003, the Government published a Green Paper called Every Child Matters alongside the formal response to the report into the death of Victoria Climbié. After a thorough consultation process, the Children Act 2004 became law. This legislation is the legal underpinning for Every Child Matters, which sets out the Government’s approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19.

The aim of the Every Child Matters programme is to give all children the support they need to:

be healthy
stay safe
enjoy and achieve
make a positive contribution
achieve economic well-being.

The Every Child Matters agenda has been further developed through publication of the Children's Plan in December 2007. The Children's Plan is a ten-year strategy to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. It places families at the heart of Government policy, taking into account the fact that young people spend only one-fifth of their childhood at school. Because young people learn best when their families support and encourage them, and when they are taking part in positive activities outside of the school day, the Children's Plan is based around a series of ambitions which cover all areas of children's lives.

The Plan aims to improve educational outcomes for children, improve children's health, reduce offending rates among young people and eradicate child poverty by 2020, thereby contributing to the achievement of the five Every Child Matters outcomes.