Ethos and history of the school.

Prior Weston has a unique mix of child-centred education and clear and defined structures. This influences every aspect of school life from the regular trips and visits programme, project weeks, maths and science weeks, termly themes and topics, school council, playground council, the family groupings in the classroom, the Happening, the School Play (with a part for each child), the class assemblies, the amazing visitors who have come to the school over the years from the insect man to all the great authors. The school is a visual feast with the results of the children’s work displayed in all the corridors and classrooms. At the annual open day prospective families are shown around by the children who proudly show off their school with an ownership that comes from being involved in decisions about their learning. There are other things that you might like to talk about here.

Mary as Headteacher learned the names of every child who has ever been through the school (and can still remember most of them). Well now she is retiring, we want to know more about you and your experience of all these aspects of school life and many more not mentioned. What they meant to you. If you are or have been a teacher at the school can you explain what these aspects of the school ethos have meant for your teaching? What have you been most proud of…