Forden Church in Wales School
Happy Children with Healthy Minds
Ysgol Eglwys yng Ngymru Ffordun
Welcome to our school
Our Mission is to provide an education, at the highest level, which will enable all children to fulfil their individual potential. We will do this within a caring and happy setting, in which children are respected and can develop feelings of respect and responsibility towards others, and the environment. We will seek to develop, within the children, an ethos sensitive to the needs of others, grounded in the Christian tradition of the school’s foundation. We will nurture links between school, home, parish and the wider community, and ensure that the school is regarded with the utmost pride.
Our vision places an emphasis on nurturing the whole child. To this end we have identified the qualities that we endeavour to develop. Everything we do at school is directed towards this aim.
Working with the Forden community
We are continually developing our links with the immediate and wider community. The children are welcomed to the Church for special occasions throughout the year. The Vicar visits us regularly. The Community of Forden is invited to coffee mornings and to school functions. Forden Bowling Club coach the older children. Parents come in regularly to work in the school gardens with the children.
We feel that we have a responsibility as citizens to the world outside of school and so believe in the importance of heightening the children’s awareness of the world and supporting needy causes. The children are involved in making these decisions.
Our approach to learning
We believe that the years your child will spend with us are of vital importance in establishing their outlook on life, the way they see themselves as members of the global community, and their attitude towards learning. Within the frameworks of the national curriculum and foundation phase we aim to engender in the children an enquiring mind and a love of learning and to equip them with a range of skills that will benefit them as ‘lifelong learners’. Whilst specific knowledge is of obvious importance in certain subjects (such as maths), we believe that understanding how and why we learn is often of greater importance than ‘what’ we learn.
Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Competence (ICT) skills are taught in subject specific lessons and then practised through Themes. These themes operate on a two yearly cycle. A range of teaching methods are used in the classroom with children working individually, in pairs, small groups or as a class depending on the nature of the task and what skills are being practised.