Our mission is
to provide learning experiences
whereby all pupils will maximise their potential in a
happy, caring and supportive environment.
The vision and values of the school are based on the fundamentals of the United Nations Rights of the Child at our centre and and are shared through our:
Curriculum to:
Ensure that the additional support needs of our pupils are met through the provision of an appropriately challenging curriculum, provide a wide and varied curriculum that is well planned and delivered in an interesting and stimulating way. Pupil support is at a level that means pupils have a voice, maximum independence and access to their learning experiences.
Article 29: The Right to the Objectives of Education (to develop abilities, talents and personality).
Support for Pupils to:
Create a safe and caring environment where each pupil’s learning, social and emotional needs are addressed.
Article 19: Right to Protection from violence, abuse, and neglect.
Article 27: Right to an adequate Standard of Living (to meet their physical, social and development needs).
Inclusion to:
Provide opportunities for relevant integration/social inclusion for the whole school.
Article 23: Right to live a full and decent life with dignity, independence and play an active role in the Community regardless of disabilities.
Article 31: Right to Leisure, Play and Culture.
Learning Environment to:
Provide a well resourced learning and teaching environment.
Article 28: The Right to Education (and therefore appropriate resources to support access to the curriculum).
Article 41: Right to higher National Standards where these exist.
Partnership to:
Enable staff, parents and other professionals to work in a spirit of inclusion, partnership and collaboration.
Article 3: The best interests of the child in all decisions and actions which affect them.
Professional Development to:
Provide opportunities for staff to further develop their expertise in the field of additional support needs, while acknowledging North Lanarkshire Council’s Policy on Equal Opportunities in the process.
Article 4: Responsibility of Government to implement (all aspects of) the Convention through their structures therefore protect and promote all rights for children including anti-discrimination, welfare and educational rights.
Celebrating Success to:
Foster an ethos which acknowledges achievement and celebrates success for all pupils and staff.
Article 13: Freedom of expression and access to information within the law. Mavisbank School acknowledges all its learning community through sharing achievements and successes with respect.
Article 15: Freedom of association where acknowledgement and recognition within a group such as Mavisbank School, enables and encourages identity to and within the group.
Raising Achievement for All forms the overarching strategy for the service. Subtitled ‘Experiences to Last a Lifetime’, this strategy aims to harness the combined forces of Education and Families and all relevant Services to provide a rich set of learning opportunities and experiences for young people and adults which begin in the classroom, nursery or learning centre and extend out into the community and the wider world beyond. In seeking to offer ‘Experiences to Last a Lifetime’, we will also look to draw upon ‘a lifetime of experiences’ already there in the communities which make up North Lanarkshire.
