OUR Vision and Values

A new Vision for Grangetown: 2026-2029

Between June and September 2026, we'll be creating a new, aspirational Vision, to guide the ongoing development of our school!

We will review, refresh and renew our 2022-2025 vision document, to reflect the current views of staff, governors, parents and childen, so that we can shape an exciting future for GPS!

At the moment – June 2026 our Vision document is largely as it was for 2022-2025 (and some elements have been removed., as part of the review process). Over the next months, however, our new plans will take shape.

The 2026-29 Vision will evolve from the previous 3 year Vision, building upon our already well-established aims and values.

Key Planned Milestones

• June 2026: SLT discussion, to look at how we'll organise the formulation of our new Vision document.
• June/July: consultation with parents and children
• September 2026: Staff Meeting to review the 2022-25 document
• Late-September 2026: Staff and Governors ‘twilight’ session, to formulate key elements of the new Vision document.
• By the end of September 2026: an updated Vision document will be in place, reflecting the agreed views of all at GPS.

Our aspirational vision for the school, created through consultation with staff, governors, pupils and families, is summed up as follows: ‘Enjoy – Respect – Achieve’. This is further set-out in our mission statement:

'At Grangetown we provide enjoyable, challenging and engaging learning experiences within a stimulating and vibrant environment. We promote a strong sense of self-worth combined with respect for others. Our exciting and well-structured curriculum, allied to high quality teaching, ensures that all children achieve their very best'.

Our Values

• Respect - we promote respect for self, for others and for property.
• Cooperation & Trust - we value teamwork and positive relationships.
• Consideration - we are caring, and we help each other whenever possible.
• Acceptance - all members of our school community are valued.
• Equality - we promote equal opportunities for all.
• Honesty - we promote open, honest, sensitive & constructive communication at all levels and at all times.
• Partnership - as well as building positive links within school, we look outwards to form relationships that will enhance learning (parents/carers, local community, national, international).

Our Aims

At Grangetown we aim to:

• Create a happy, safe, caring, nurturing and stimulating environment
• Promote an ethos based upon teamwork, within which all are valued
• Ensure that teaching and learning are of the highest possible quality
• Ensure that every child achieves their full potential
• Ensure that each child has equal access to a broad, balanced, meaningful curriculum, based on real-life, practical experiences, organised and taught in a manner which displays an understanding of how children learn most effectively
• Ensure that every child is literate and numerate, and that they also gain opportunities to take part and excel in the sciences, the arts, cultural activities, humanities, and in digital activities (computing, internet)
• To give children opportunities to participate in and excel in sport – including competitive sport - to learn skills, get fit, and learn about fairness and teamwork.
• Encourage every child to aim high, reach for the stars, and to ‘believe that they can achieve’
• Encourage children to be adventurous and inquisitive, to develop as independent learners, to persevere, and to develop a passion for learning
• Help every child develop the skills and attitudes they will need to fulfil their potential as independent, motivated learners, and as responsible citizens (in line with our SMSC & British Values approaches).
• Enable all children to become confident, secure, caring individuals who achieve personal success and develop a love of learning
• Make learning vivid, real, relevant, enjoyable and challenging
• Recognise and celebrate success in everyone
• Promote an ethos that encourages respect for oneself, for others and for property
• Ensure that staff are valued, well-motivated & working effectively as a team, and that they have access to high quality professional development
• Create a partnership with home based upon respect and trust; encourage parents to become involved in their child’s education
• Build strong links with the local Grangetown and Sunderland community and establish links with partners beyond the school (national & international); ensure these links strengthen our Curriculum
• Ensure that staff, children, parents and governors work together to actively promote and further develop our shared vision. 

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.          William Butler Yeats