To create a well-ordered, pleasant, stimulating environment, where children find life and learning enjoyable and where there is equal provision for all, regardless of gender, intellectual or physical ability, faith or race.

To create a caring and supportive community which provides for the personal and social needs of all children. To enable them to develop their personalities to the full and to acquire the attitudes and social skills necessary to work successfully with other people.

To provide for the intellectual needs of all by providing a broad, balanced, relevant and appropriate curriculum - The Learner Entitlement - encompassing all areas of experience. Students should acquire knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes to cope with life in the rapidly changing world of work and leisure. 

To help children develop lively, enquiring minds in order to stimulate their curiosity and imagination so that they will be willing and able to acquire knowledge and skills outside school hours and throughout their lives.

To bring the school and the wider community together in partnership.