Ethos

School Vision

• We will create an inspiring and welcoming school in which all members of our community feel respected and valued.
• We will help every student develop high self-esteem, independence skills and an enthusiastic attitude to life and learning.
• We will value and promote inclusive learning, and develop strategies to enable all our students to make a success of their lives.

School  Motto

‘Learning to Live Life to the Full’

School  Aims

• To ensure that inspirational teaching is at the heart of the school’s provision, and that students’ learning experience is creative, challenging, rewarding and fun. 
• To deliver a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum which will enable each student to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding appropriate to their individual capacity.
• To provide a healthy, stimulating but safe learning environment where clear boundaries for students are respectfully communicated and consistently reinforced.
• To encourage self-confidence and a positive attitude to learning, enabling all students to achieve the highest standards by the setting and achieving of challenging targets.
• To develop students’ communication skills, enabling them to interact, express their preferences and needs, participate in decision-making and become well-adjusted and confident citizens.
• To develop students’ relationship skills, encouraging shared moral values and sensitivity to others, and promoting self and peer advocacy.
• To ensure that all students have access to accredited courses according to their abilities and interests, and provide suitable vocational training, careers guidance and work experience to help students relate what is learned in school to the world of work.
• To ensure that all students feel part of the whole campus community and that staff promote inclusion between Riverside and Woodside High, following core principles of mutual understanding and respect, and the celebration of difference.
• To enhance students’ links with the wider community, actively supporting them in experiencing and engaging with the broadest possible range of activities and settings.
• To establish a staff culture of continuous learning, in which skilled, reflective practitioners are mutually respectful and supportive.
• To ensure that every culture and heritage at the school is valued, understood and embraced for its richness and diversity, that all equalities issues are effectively addressed, and that any prejudice is rigorously challenged.
• To promote an atmosphere of cooperation, with governors, staff, parents, students, friends and supporters working in partnership together.