Selby High School Aims & Objectives
Our goal is success for everyone through encouragement, teamwork, friendship, respect and an enjoyment of learning in an environment where we all understand that by working together we achieve more.
Our School Aims are:
to provide inspirational learning through exceptional and stimulating teaching;
to provide a personalised curriculum that meets the individual needs of all students;
to encourage our students to take responsibility for their own learning; achieve their full potential and enjoy their learning;
to pursue excellence and celebrate achievement;
to allow students to discover that they are capable of more than even they themselves thought possible and success can be for everyone;
to help students to develop the whole person (linked to the five outcomes of ‘Every Child Matters’) – intellectually, physically, economically, culturally, socially, spiritually, morally and be part of a healthy community within which they feel secure, happy and valued;
to encourage our students to understand equality and have a respect for all religions, cultures and ways of life;
to actively promote community learning and the notion that learning is life-long, together with developing close links with the local community;
to build a capacity to develop appropriate skills for the future;
to prepare our students for adult life and employment in a rapidly changing technological world; developing a first-hand understanding that by working together we achieve more;
to encourage risk taking in our quest to improve learning and teaching;
to develop and maintain a close partnership with Parents/Carers, ensuring their support for, and confidence in the school;
Our vision is of a school that:
is truly student-centred
places learning and teaching at its heart;
has the highest expectations of its students;
celebrates the unique talents of all its students;
listens to students’ views
ensures its students are safe and secure and has an atmosphere of mutual support and respect;
looks to the future without forgetting to enjoy the experience of today.
Our School’s Values:
We value: honesty; hard work; success; supportiveness; self-evaluation to generate improvements; inclusiveness; good examination results; self belief; self-discipline; taking responsibility; innovation; respect for everyone; and a belief in the limitless potential of students;
We want to work in a school where:
individuals show respect to others, are sensitive to the feelings of others and are aware how their actions will affect themselves and others; that is well led and responds to the needs of its stakeholders.
We are a learning school where we attempt to:
encourage all members of our community to continue to learn.
constantly strive to improve the learning experience for our students, and to provide inspirational teaching.
help our students to secure high levels of personal achievement, and foster their self-belief.
encourage all students to embrace and contribute to a healthy school community.
We are a school which believes:
in taking risks in order to improve learning and teaching;
that constructive feedback to students on how to improve is crucial to them making good progress;
that students learn best when they feel safe and are enjoying themselves;
that students need to undertake how they learn in order to be highly effective learners who can take responsibility for their own learning;
that a hard-working, rigorous approach to study leads to success;
that success nourishes our students – they can because they think theycan.
These Aims and Objectives are presently being evaluated and reviewed. The statements above should be regarded as a draft. If you wish to make a comment or contribution that you feel will improve the formulation of these Aims and Objective please contact the school.
Vision
Selby High School has a strong link with the past. We must respect this history, but embrace and build for the future.
Our Aim is that Selby High School will become a centre of excellence for the Arts
The changes in the Senior Leadership Team has brought about considerable change creating a dynamic Arts curriculum sustaining the developments in teaching and learning and the. Curriculum change has seen a 'pathways' curriculum develop to cater for the broad 'comprehensive' ability intake at Selby High School. We are continuing to develop courses that match students' needs and create personalised learning opportunities for young people. The school timetable is matched against other providers to allow minimum disruption to learning whilst increasing flexibility, creating diversity and opportunity. Parent/Carer, student and partner surveys now show high levels of satisfaction with the changes that have been introduced since 2003.
The Local Community
The school is central to many projects already running within the community. We are the home base for the Selby Music Centre and Selby Wind Band - a full orchestra/ensemble which runs every Saturday involving young musicians from the community, from other secondary schools, from the college and local primary schools. We already take the Arts to our Primary schools with excellent results through the use of team teaching and project work. The school has already gained the Artsmark award. We are the only school in North Yorkshire to offer peripatetic style instrument tuition by our own Music teachers to enhance the service provided by North Yorkshire.
Our Summer University runs a 5-day Arts based programme funded by the LEA to offer Drama, Art and Dance to students from across the district. Our reputation within the Arts is such that the Arts Council of Britain enrolled the school to pilot the new Young Persons Arts Award scheme for Yorkshire prior to its proposed national release. ‘Stagecoach Theatre Arts’ is joined forces with the school from January 2007 to provide dancing, singing and performance classes after school.
The School Hall is the biggest in the town with 283 seats. We have demonstrated commitment to Performing Arts by the investment in sophisticated seating, sound and lighting systems and ‘Cinema @ School’ will soon be open to provide the people of Selby with a cinema on their doorstep. Partnership with other schools and user groups means our school hall is already key venue for annual large scale productions. We are committed to developing a centre of excellence in the Arts. Selby High School will be an ambassador for the Arts in North Yorkshire.
Vision
We are committed to developing critical thinking skills and approaches to the Arts which will allow for creativity, problem solving and innovative whole school improvement through the Arts. We recognise the power of the Arts to develop imaginative and expressive learning whereby students of all abilities will achieve success. We will raise attainment and the quality of teaching and learning for all students in their chosen Arts subjects and use this as a catalyst for whole school improvement, together with using the arts to improve learning in other curriculum areas.
The use of accelerated learning strategies will increase the range of learning styles and pilot new ways of teaching and learning. The school has set key objectives and the outcomes will mean that the Arts both within the school and the community will be transformed. In the first two years after receiving specialist status all students in KS3 will be undertaking a dance option and all students will take an Arts Core Option within KS4. The school will have created an enrichment programme to merit the award of the Gold Artsmark. Involvement and performance in the Arts will transcend the school. We will have created a primary classroom on site. A/S & A2, plus other Post-16 qualifications, will be offered in Music, Drama and Art Three session contracts will have been introduced for staff to enable the school to develop even more flexible and creative approaches to timetabling and staffing courses beyond the confines of a traditional school day
Selby High School supports the Campaign for the Wearing of Seatbelts in memory of Neil Houliston, a former student, who died in a car accident whilst not wearing a seat belt, on Christmas Day 2005.
