Our vision, ‘Grow, Care, Serve, Share’ permeates every aspect of school life and frames the way we live and work. Our school has an exceptionally strong sense of inclusion and is a place where everyone is welcome – Christian families and families from all faiths and none. Our Christian vision and associated values of kindness, respect, forgiveness, perseverance and love create deep and mutually beneficial relationships between children, staff, parents and the community. We are unwavering in our ambition to see every child included in the life of the school, enabled to flourish and succeed.

Our vision underpins our behaviour policy such that adults and children are able to thrive in an environment which not only provides emotional and physical safety but also the nature, support and guidance we need to be the best we can be.

Our Christian vision is underpinned by biblical teaching consisting of four quotes from the Gospels:

Grow: “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.” (John 15:5)

Care: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34)

Serve: “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.” (John 13:14)

Share: “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.” (Mark 16:15)

Our vision is shared with St. Swithun’s, our local church, and this shared vision underlines the strength of our relationship

Bathford Church School is a caring, nurturing, happy school where we strive for every child to receive a life-enhancing, outstanding education. Our vision of ‘Grow, Care, Serve, Share’ frames our curriculum. We aim to help our children to grow by equipping them with the knowledge, skills and values they need both to make sense of the world and to become caring, responsible global citizens.

Three key global learning themes underpin our curriculum: Identity and Diversity, Social Justice and Equity and Sustainable Development. Each of these themes is broken down into knowledge, skills and values and across each year a number of high-quality core texts are used to bring the themes to life for our children. In the autumn term the whole school theme is Identity and Diversity, in the Spring term it is Social Justice and Equity and in the Summer it is Sustainable Development.

Our evolving 2020-21 curriculum is based around these themes and delivered through exciting termly, cross curricular topics which cover the National Curriculum but are enhanced by children’s own interests, our school vision and local and global events. For further information on current topics, please see the ‘Our Curriculum’ page.

Our aim is to develop children who are creative and artistic, tolerant and light hearted, friendly and trustworthy, forgiving and enthusiastic, wise and compassionate. To develop children who show empathy, endurance, teamwork and humility. Children who can be peaceful, who have a sense of justice and who are respectful, thankful and hopeful about the future. Children who are kind, talented, independent, honest, alert, resilient, thoughtful, confident, helpful, responsible, happy, hard-working and polite. Children who will persevere, who are loyal, punctual, ambitious and who value ‘koinonia’, that feeling of fellowship and togetherness with others.