Vision & Ethos

We strive to orchestrate a fully ‘joined up’ provision, where all children, regardless of their starting point, reach their full potential. We say we help “every child and their family achieve their best”, which reflects our highly inclusive, well-supported and personalised provision.

We teach children to respect, accept and value their classmates and adults in our richly diverse multicultural school community and in their lives outside School by being role models.

We want children to enjoy their time at School and we endeavour to create a comfortable and secure environment in which they feel cared for and valued by developing the children’s independence, confidence and ability to make decisions for themselves.

We say that we are a “School of Leaders” and aim to empower children to make choices, be heard and negotiate through life by giving talk4learning a high profile.

The teaching of reading and writing is at the heart of what we do; and with a rich-ICT curriculum, we work hard to equip children with essential skills for later life.

Children have only one chance in life. We pride ourselves on our vibrant, high-quality teaching and careful feedback – helping to give all children the best learning experience possible.

We aim to make our School Community a welcoming, friendly and safe environment. We believe that it is important that parents and teachers work alongside each other, with “parents as partners”, to help and support children to thrive.  We say that TVI places itself “at the Heart of the Community”.  We pride ourselves on our offer of bespoke family support and parenting advice.

Communication is key.  We value our open-door ethos and work hard to  instil trust and transparency within families.  Changing long-standing traditional dispositions to learning is a long-standing ambition of ours. Together, with your trust and support, we are making a real difference to our children’s lives and their futures.

We aim to:

• help everyone, regardless of baseline, achieve their best
• overcome anti-institutional perceptions
• challenge traditionally-held dispositions to learning
• eradicate the effects of poverty by creating a culture in which pupils and staff aspire to excel
• give children the best educational start in life, equipping them with the skills and attributes for later life, enabling them to aspire to access the full range of higher and further education establishments.

Our very vibrant and carefully tailored curriculum, is rich and broad, with a high emphasis on precise teaching, first-hand experiences, talk4learning, enrichment, and developing play and social skills.  There’s an enhanced SLCN provision and care has been taken to offer any additional support required within a  “parallel learning model”. This maintains the School’s commitment to inclusivity and a full curriculum for all, including ensuring equitability for the lowest attaining 20%.

This is achieved by:

• offering a deeply personalised and inclusive provision, rich in ICT & high-quality Literacy;
• encouraging children to thrive as leaders by empowering them, placing a high emphasis on talk4learning and independent & collaborative out-of-class learning across lessons;
• embedding a distinct signature pedagogy amongst inspirational teachers; which is flexible enough for empowered, reflective practitioners to debate the way they teach whilst meeting the needs of all children through a broad and deeply-enriching curriculum;
• carefully planning meaningful and enriching learning experiences, which allows children to develop, collaborate with others, consolidate and deepen their knowledge; demonstrating curiosity, imagination and concentration;
• fully equipping pupils with the essential knowledge and cultural capital that they need to succeed and thrive in later life; achieved through:
  • a balanced and fully rounded education, rich in memorable, practical, first-hand learning and experiences (#makingmemories);
  • seizing opportunities to be creative and take risks within a deep and very comprehensive, well-sequenced curriculum;
  • a carefully constructed provision which responsively addresses the gaps in pupils’ knowledge and skills found within the School’s local context;
• ensuring that all children, including the lowest 20%, receive an equitable amount of quality first teaching from their teacher;
• fostering an excitement for learning, love for challenge and a resilience to life’s “ups and downs”.

TVI is a Professional Learning Community and staff at different levels support Schools locally and beyond. This reputation is embedded within a portfolio of awards and articles. We’re particularly proud of our ability to grow new staff, particularly the less experienced, valuing their strengths and recognising their potential contribution to the greater School Community.