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Ethos & Values

At Kings Ash Academy, we are committed to creating a vibrant and inclusive learning environment where every child is empowered to be:

  • Knowing – curious, informed, and reflective. 

  • Aspiring – ambitious, hopeful, and driven. 

  • Achieving – successful, proud, and fulfilled. 

We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to: 

  • Be able to learn
  • Be safe
  • Be happy
  • Be respected
  • Be listened to

To achieve these aims, we nurture resilient and confident individuals who can relate to others and express their thoughts with humility and understanding. 

Our Curriculum & Values in Action

Our curriculum is linked to the needs of our children and is designed to provide challenging, purposeful, innovative, real, collaborative and aspirational learning experiences for our children.  It aims to connect them to the wider world through working with community partners.

Through these and a commitment to the principles of assessment for learning, we aim for all our children to meet their full potential.

Our school values are brought to life through our four learning mascots, each representing a key character trait we encourage in every child: 

  •  Babu the Deer – Respect 

 Treating others with kindness, fairness, and dignity. 

  •  Casey the Rabbit – Collaboration 

 Working together, sharing ideas, and supporting one another. 

  •  Charlotte the Squirrel – Creativity 

 Thinking imaginatively, solving problems, and exploring new possibilities. 

  •  Solo the Hedgehog – Independence 

 Taking responsibility, making choices, and believing in oneself. 

 

Kings Ash Academy Learning Values:

Creativity:

A creative learner: 

  • asks questions
  • resilient
  • takes risks
  • connects ideas

Collaboration:

A collaborative learner:  

  • joins in
  • tries ideas
  • works well in a group 
  • helps others

Independence:

An independent learner:

  • well organised
  • confident to have a go
  • willing to make mistakes
  • focussed

Respect:

A respectful learner:

  • kind and polite
  • listens to others
  • makes the right choices
  • tolerant of others