Our vision
To nurture curious minds and allow space for children to become confident people.
At Stedham Primary School, we equip children with the skills, resilience and curiosity to thrive today, while empowering every child with the confidence, knowledge and values they need to shape tomorrow. Through a nurturing environment we inspire lifelong learners who are ready to leave Stedham for the bigger world of secondary education.
Our ethos
Six values run through everything we do. Children learn what each one looks like in practice, and we celebrate them every day.
Challenge
- Having a desire to learn and improve
- Thinking and acting for yourself
- Doing things yourself
- Making your own choices
Commitment
- Enthusiasm
- Wanting to achieve and get better
- Being reflective
- Encouraging others
- Endurance
Creativity
- Being inventive
- Imagination
- Being prepared to be flexible
- Resourcefulness
- Adapting
- Being original
- Thinking around a problem or challenge
Courtesy
- Polite
- Manners
- Respect
- Care
Consideration
- Behaving in a sensible way
- Showing thought
- Being accountable for your actions
- Reliability
- Trust
- Truth
- Seeing things through
- Being honest to yourself and others
- Setting a good example
Collaboration
- Working together
- Teamwork
- Supportive criticism
- Helping one another
- Achieving goals together
These values sit alongside the British Values we promote across the curriculum.

