Our Mission

“We will inspire and empower all in our learning community to fulfil their individual potential and ambitions so that all are able to be active and successful citizens in our global society”

Our school is a community where every young person is challenged to reach their full potential and experience success, regardless of their background or ability. We believe that all stakeholders—students, staff, families, and the wider community of which we are a part—share the responsibility of contributing to the growth and achievement of our students. Recognising that every young person is unique, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values individuality, celebrates all achievements, and empowers our students to thrive academically, socially, and personally.

Poynton High School Values:

· Inclusivity and Individuality
We recognize that all young people are unique, and we value and respect the individuality and potential of each student.

·  Ambition for All
We are committed to providing every student, regardless of their background or prior attainment, with the opportunity to face challenges, achieve success and reach their full potential. 

·  Strong Relationships and Shared Responsibility
Success is a collective effort, and we believe that all stakeholders—students, staff, families, and the community—play an important role in the development and success of our young people through valuing and respecting each individual.

·  Celebration of Success
We celebrate all forms of achievement, recognizing both academic and personal growth as integral to student success.

·  Empowerment and Growth
We aim to empower students to thrive not only academically but also socially and personally, fostering lifelong learning and confidence and preparing students to be active and successful citizens..

Our values can be summed up in three words, INSPIRE ACHIEVE CELEBRATE and is applied to every aspect of our work.  We aim to inspire our young people in all of our work so that they may achieve their full potential and at the heart of this lies a truly celebratory culture; we aim to inspire you, so that you can achieve, and we celebrate every achievement for every student.

 

Strategic Intent

Our mission is underpinned by our six themes of strategic intent.  These themes give us our medium to long term direction and underpin all of our School Improvement Planning and Operational Actions:

1. Community
2. Leadership
3. Curriculum
4. Learning
5. Welfare
6. Environment

Strategic Intent Theme 1: Community

We will serve, through proactive engagement, all members of our community and we will establish ourselves at the heart of our community’s learning needs.

Strategic Intent Theme 2: Leadership

We will achieve, through a rigorous pursuit of excellence, strong, innovative, effective and highly ambitious leadership for all members of our learning community; fostering a spirit of collaboration and partnership.  We recognise that this is only achieved through the development of a highly trained, highly motivated workforce.

Strategic Intent Theme 3: Curriculum

We will deliver a curriculum that meets the needs of all students all of the time through opportunities that are exciting, stimulating and empowering.  We will establish ourselves as a teaching Centre of Excellence. 

Strategic Intent Theme 4: Learning

We will achieve a strong culture of learning in all aspects of our work; embedding a thirst for lifelong learning throughout our community within a framework of inspiration, achievement and celebration.

Strategic Intent Theme 5: Welfare

We will produce confident learners who are creative, resilient, independent and highly ambitious members of our community who demonstrate respect and fairness within a safe, caring and cooperative culture.

Strategic Intent Theme 6: Environment

We will engender excellence in learning and personal development with high quality and effective resources, where all are empowered within an inspirational, safe and flexible environment.

Operational Themes

In order to achieve our longer term vision and its underpinning strategic intent, we recognise the following as short term operational theme priorities:

School Improvement Planning

Our Operational Themes are achieved through our School Improvement Plan.