Elmbridge Infant School

We will endeavour to do our very best for the children in their first years at school and to make this time as happy and productive as possible.

PSHCE

Children learn about themselves as developing individuals and as members of their community. By building on their own experiences and on the early learning goals for personal, social and emotional development, our children learn the basic rules and skills for keeping themselves healthy and safe and for behaving well.

Our Golden Rules

We are gentle

We don't hurt others

We are kind and helpful

We don't hurt anybody's feelings

We listen

We don't interrupt

We are honest

We don't cover up the truth

We work hard

We don't waste our own or others' time

We look after property

We don't waste or damage things

Responsibilities

Children have opportunities to show that they can take some responsibility for themselves and their environment. The tasks appointed by class teachers to children include:

Returning the registers to the office
Organising the morning's milk
Collecting the class fruit
Being the teacher's 'Helper'.

Part of a Community

Children begin to learn about their own and other people's feelings and become aware of the views, needs and rights of other people. As members of a class and school community, they learn social skills such as how we share, take turns, play, help others, resolve simple arguments and resist bullying. They begin to take an active part in the life of their school and its neighbourhood, learning citizenship skills. Sex and Relationship Education

If questions are asked by children we will endeavour to give answers appropriate to the age of the child and with due regard to moral considerations and the quality of family life.

A quote from Ofsted.

'Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good. Their understanding of right and wrong and of their own feelings and emotions are evident in class discussions and in their poetry writing. Pupils’ respect for different beliefs and ideas is seen in the good relationships between the various ethnic groups.

Pupils’ cultural development also benefits from links with a school in the Gambia and a whole school African week.'

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