Values and Aims

Rathdown Junior School is committed to enabling all pupils to experience creative and challenging learning opportunities in order that they might reach their full potential.

Junior School Values:

  • Provide a life-long enjoyment of learning.
  • View each pupil as an individual.
  • Recognise the unique differences amongst individuals.

Junior School Aims:

  • Create an environment that is conducive to learning and fosters the development of the pupil’s potential.
  • Promote an atmosphere of mutual respect, of confidence and trust, based on Christian principles, within which each pupil can feel happy and secure.
  • Deliver a broad-based curriculum that includes a wide and varied range of extra-curricula activities.
  • Provide a varied and effective approach to teaching and learning across the curriculum.
  • Incorporate technology into all lessons to enhance the development of knowledge, skills and understanding in all areas of the curriculum.
  • Allow all pupils to become confident users of ICT to aid and enrich their learning.