Our Aims
We are committed to transforming the life chances of our students and their families, thus benefiting the wider community.
Our mission is to ensure we help every young person we work with achieve their full potential, both academically and personally.
We want our students to engage with, and stay in, education; motivating and inspiring them to become confident individuals, successful learners and thoughtful citizens.
Our role is to ensure students have the emotional stability and richness to grow; and where needed, once ready, a supportive therapeutic experience with an accessible curriculum and pathway to success in the future – be that academic or vocational.
Our Ethos
At Fieldstone School we aim to provide a small class-based learning environment where every student is seen, heard and truly matters. We believe that positive relationships are the foundation of successful learning. By working closely with families, local authorities and external professionals, we create a consistent support network around each pupil to help them thrive both in and beyond school.
Our curriculum enables students to actively engage in authentic, real world and personally meaningful learning; with professionals working together to ensure a trauma informed holistic approach – supporting all to be the best that they can be. Learning at Fieldstone is designed to help pupils understand themselves, develop practical life skills and prepare for adulthood. Through enrichment, careers education, community experiences and wider personal development opportunities, pupils gain the knowledge, skills and confidence needed for life beyond school.
This enables:
To help our students achieve our learning aims we reinforce our school learning principles annually.
These are:
To realise this, we focus on our key dispositions.
Our Learning Dispositions
The values and skills we want our pupils to develop are captured within our learning dispositions. These dispositions help pupils understand what successful learning looks like and support them to become confident, resilient and independent individuals.
Our youngest classes will always start by concentrating on:
Each key disposition is symbolised by a woodland animal, to help our youngest children to understand the abstract concept with a story about each animal’s observed natural character.
As students progress, they move on to focus on being:
As we have six key dispositions; focusing on one per half-term.