Ethos and Values

We want children at Granville Plus to feel confident and valued, safe and secure (emotionally as well as physically). We believe children have a right to be heard and to have opinions. We want to foster children’s autonomy. We encourage them to make decisions, and we involve them in dealing with the outcomes of their actions. 

We aim to be good role models in our attitudes and behaviour. 

We aim to learn from parents’ knowledge of their children, and we seek to involve parents in their children’s learning. 

We want each child to develop to his or her fullest potential across the whole range of possibilities. We have high expectations of children’s achievement. We also aim to develop children’s dispositions towards learning. Children learn in an integrated way, and we aim to support this, in both child-initiated and adult- initiated experiences. 

We accept the Play Safety Forum principle that "children both need and want to take risks in order to explore limits, venture into new experiences, and develop their capacities, from a very young age and from their earliest play experiences", and believe this equally applies to children with disabilities. We therefore aim to provide controlled opportunities for children to encounter and learn to manage risk, thus equipping them to deal with similar hazards in the wider world.

We uphold British Values, which we believe underpin human rights.

"The best way to prepare children for adult life is to give them what they need as children”. Tina Bruce