St John's is a happy, hardworking and successful school community where Together We Grow Stronger. Our aim is to create a positive learning environment where the children are at the heart of everything we do, with a strong Christian ethos and the highest expectations of behaviour and attainment. We offer a 'village school' atmosphere, with all the benefits of the town's facilities.

Our Christian values of LOVE, HOPE and TRUST lie at the heart of our school life as we nurture the potential of every child. We create a sense of togetherness whilst providing children with individual attention and we work in partnership with you, the child's family, to ensure that every child thrives.

Our school has a warm, friendly, family-feel that we all value. We know our children extremely well and treat them with respect. Children do very well here and are appropriately supported and challenged, through high quality teaching, so that they can make good progress.

Please don’t just take my word for it! I am always proud to show guests around our wonderful school. Please contact the office if you would like to come and see us.

Mr Dan Hortop | Headteacher

Mission

Our mission is to create an inspirational learning environment underpinned by the Christian Faith so that everyone can become the best they can be be as happy as they can be and be as ready for their future as they can be, as together we:

Strive for success, learning to love our challenges

Trust and keep each other safe

Joyfully build memories out of moments

Offer opportunities for all to blossom as unique and special

Help and understand each other

Nurture and develop skills, courage and creativity

Stand united in hope to transform all that we can

Values

Together we grow stronger – in our hopes, hearts and minds: with LOVE, HOPE and TRUST

St John’s shared definition of Spirituality

St John’s School defines spirituality as growing stronger together by looking within and beyond ourselves to embrace and transform all our futures.

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The Acorn Education Trust was formed in August 2014 to create a local solution to a national strategy. Through close collaboration and a shared vision we believe each school will achieve great things while retaining their individual identity. Underpinning this close collaboration is a strong belief in our core purpose.

School improvement is the key to school effectiveness and is at the heart of the process of raising standards. It allows us to deliver an education for all children/students that is of the highest quality. The Acorn Education Trust is driven by its core purpose of improving outcomes and life chances for students and believes that an effective School Improvement Strategy is the key to unlocking the potential in its leaders, staff and children/students. An effective Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) uses the School Improvement Strategy to help ensure accountability, drive strategic thinking and deploy resources in order to improve outcomes for its children/students. Our leadership and management of each school is based on three principles:

Every school is an improving school

Leadership at every level is critical

The unique identity of each school must be preserved

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