A message from Mrs Leanne Wortley, Head Teacher

Dear parents, I would like to welcome you to Naples and especially to our school. We are very proud of our achievements and everyone at the school will work very hard to ensure your child is happy and makes good progress. Italy is a beautiful country and Naples has much to offer, with many historical and geographical sites to visit. Our curriculum builds on these opportunities and provides the children with a wide and varied range of experiences.

We believe you play an essential role in your child’s education. There are numerous opportunities to support your child in school, from helping with homework, volunteering for school visits, helping in school or sharing any special skills you may have. We welcome parents as partners and believe your partnership with us is key to your child’s learning.

Our school is friendly and open and we welcome the opportunity to discuss our work, any concerns or questions. Our website outlines our work and will help to answer some of the questions you may have.

We wish you a successful and enjoyable stay in Naples.

Our Vision, Values and Aims

• The development of a child’s lively enquiring mind, imaginatively, creatively and honestly.
• To develop the ability to question and discuss matters rationally.
• The acquisition and development of attitudes and skills which encourage learning that is meaningful, enjoyable and relevant, using a broad range of appropriate work and structured play, throughout both key stages, enabling each child to develop to their full potential.
• A planned progression of work throughout the school, building on each child’s individual experience and skill level.
• A sense of responsibility, confidence and independence towards work and behaviour, fostering a child’s feelings of pride and achievement.
• Constructive relationships between home, school and the community based on trust, communication, shared values and understanding.
• Equal opportunities and the positive elimination of gender stereotyping, with understanding and respect of self and others and for different races, religions and cultures, especially the host nation.
• The development of the appropriate skills, knowledge and understanding to have the confidence, creativity and capability to use ICT throughout their lives. We will enable our children/staff to learn about ICT, develop an increasing range of ICT skills and learn how to use them in a range of subjects. We will enable them to become thoughtful and independent users of ICT.
• Experiences which enable pupils to understand that every individual has an important contribution to make to the well being of the local and wider community.
• Good working relationships between all members of staff where each individual feels valued.

Across the school, we have six different learning behaviours that we focus on so that we can become the best learners that we can be (one learning behaviour for each half term). Each of our learning behaviours is represented by an animal to help us to remember them all. Together, we have created a list of what each learning behaviour looks like and we regularly talk about this in class and in our assemblies.