Ethos and Values
.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&scale=LIMIT_MAXSIZE "img_6518(2)")
.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&scale=LIMIT_MAXSIZE "img_4296(1)")
.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&scale=LIMIT_MAXSIZE "burleystmatthias(15)")
Our Mission Statement
Burley St Matthias C of E Primary School is a learning, living, loving community, founded on Christian principles, to welcome and serve children and families of all faiths, beliefs and backgrounds:
Learning: We are all committed to developing whole-life-learners who are eager to rise to all challenges and brave enough to take risks – overcoming obstacles through effort, encouragement and friendship, pursuing excellence in all things and thoroughly enjoying the journey.
Living: We will provide an environment and experiences which inspire our children to embrace life, to connect and contribute to the awesome world in which we live, to care for one another and to have fun being children.
Loving: Our school family believes in nurturing all our children in atmosphere of love, respect and trust. All are well known and valued in their uniqueness and supported to grow in confidence and self esteem, secure in the knowledge that
Everyone is Special
Our 9 Special Words
Our children came up with 9 special words they wanted to describe our school. See if you can spot them in some of our ethos and mission statements:
Learning, Special, Caring, Awesome, Challenge, Believe, Friendly, Respect, Fun.
Our 9 words can also been found throughout the bible - have a look here.
Our School Prayer
This is our school
Let peace live here
Help us to:
Love and cherish one another;
Enjoy the challenges of learning;
And respect your awesome world;
Because you made us one big family
Where Everyone is Special
Amen
School Houses
When you start our school you will be placed in a house: Earth, Air, Fire or Water. Work hard for your house to earn housepoints and see if your house can be this year's winner of the house trophy. There's a Sport's Day House cup to win too and housepoints for the houses with the best attendance.
Our houses are named because of this passage from Genesis 1:
In the beginning, when God created the universe, the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness and the power of God was moving over the water. Then God commanded, “Let there be light” – and light appeared. God was pleased with what he saw. Then he separated the light from the darkness, and he named the light “Day” and the darkness “Night”. Evening passed and morning came – that was the first day.
Then God commanded, “Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places” – and it was done, So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it. He named the dome “Sky.” Evening passed and morning came – that was the second day.
Then God commanded, “Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear” – and it was done. He named the land “Earth,” and the water which had come together he named “Sea.” And God was pleased with what he saw. Then he commanded “Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit” – and it was done. So the earth was produced with what he saw. Evening passed and morning came – that was the third day.
Then God commanded, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin; they will shine in the sky to give light to the earth to the earth” – and it was done. So God made the two larger lights, the sun to rule over the day and the moon to rule over the night; he also made the starts. He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God was pleased with what he saw. Evening passed and morning came – that was the fourth day.