Values & Ethos
This term’s focus value is RESPECT – which is also one of the overall Priory Primary central values – and together with the Useful & Kind model of Self, Others and World, encompasses self respect, respect towards our peers / families / community and respect for our environment. So much rich learning. As adults we should also challenge ourselves to model the value of respect in all we say and do. Let us not rely on our status as ‘elders’ to demand respect of our children. Respect, whatever our age or status, is earned, and as our statement below reminds us, mutual.
Priory Primary School provides and promotes a learning environment that is values-based. This means that our values are embedded in the way we teach and learn, in our curriculum, in our policies (such as behaviour, equality, anti-bullying) and in our daily interactions with each other. If you join or visit our school you will experience our welcoming and inclusive ethos, and see the values of hard work, honesty, mutual respect and care for each other.
The school community reviews and agrees a number of named values to focus on throughout the year, and this becomes a focus in class, in assembly and in celebration. It encourages pupils to explore the meaning of the value and their personal response as they seek to make choices and take action in their school life.
In 2025, the school community, parents, governors, pupils and teachers, looked once again at a number of important values for school to promote to the pupils, and thought about what was important for us in our world at the moment. This is what we have decided:
Love – Respect – Honesty – Self Worth – Responsibility – Courage
“If we only had rules and no values… then
School Councillor
people might follow the rules but not
really mean it. Their heart is not in it.
Values show that we do things and we
mean it, deep down.”
