Ethos, AIMs, Values and VISION

Hillbrook Primary School is a learning community where everyone can be successful. Effort is celebrated as well as achievement. We promote a culture that encourages children to enjoy learning, have fun, be happy at school and to reach their full potential.

We are proud to teach an ambitious, carefully designed curriculum that embraces the arts, music and sports. We work hard to give each child opportunities to develop both academically, personally and socially.

We strive for our children to be confident, well-rounded and successful citizens and lovers of learning who can thrive and contribute to our world by being responsible, resilient and reflective members of society.

Long-range strategic objectives 2025–2028

Hillbrook Quality of Education – To deliver a progressive and ambitious curriculum where children deepen their knowledge and develop the skills and confidence to be successful lifelong learners and achieve their maximum potential.

Hillbrook Behaviour and Attitudes – To foster a culture where children are encouraged to build resilience, responsibility and reflectiveness, which empowers them to feel confident and capable of making positive choices and to learn from mistakes.

Hillbrook Personal Development – to raise aspirations and broaden horizons through providing memorable and meaningful experiences where all children are given the opportunity to achieve their full potential and become active citizens in an inclusive and diverse community.

Hillbrook Leadership and Management – to inspire a culture of personal growth where staff are happy and feel supported to engage in professional learning, embrace change and develop a shared responsibility to drive continuous improvement to ensure the best possible outcomes for all children.

VISION

Our vision for Hillbrook is underpinned by the following core values, our 3 Rs. 

• Be Resilient
• Be Responsible
• Be Reflective

We actively promote opportunities to enable our children to become responsible, reflective and resilient members of our school community and beyond. We do this by embedding and reinforcing the following aims in all aspects of school life. We believe that these will help our children to be successful at school and prepare them for life.

AIMS

• To provide a warm and welcoming environment which is clean, safe and secure and allows everyone to learn
• To develop a whole school community that values positive attitudes, relationships and mutual respect and where high standards of behaviour are demonstrated and expected
• To have the highest possible expectations of all children so that every child can achieve their maximum potential
• To be a fully inclusive school that celebrates and recognises the needs, diversity and abilities of our community, valuing everyone and ensuring that everyone is of equal importance
• To offer a rich, relevant and meaningful curriculum, full of memorable learning experiences that develop enquiring minds and foster a lifelong love of learning
• To promote and inspire a collaborative community spirit where parents and carers are supportive, engaged and involved in their child’s learning journey
• To foster and develop children’s emotional well–being, their resilience and their mental and physical health
• To enable each child to reach their maximum potential

VALUES

We have a value for each month which is celebrated and referred to where relevant and our assemblies for each month are based upon each value. This is on a 2-year cycle.

BRITISH VALUES

At Hillbrook Primary School, we promote British Values. These values are:

• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual Liberty
• Mutual Respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs

These British Values are taught and promoted in a variety of ways

See the British Values page for more details.