Summary of Aims

The school aims to provide a pleasant working environment which values each individual and where, through the establishment and maintenance of good relationships and tension-free discipline, pupils can maximise their true potential.

These aims are fundamental to the decisions we make about our school. The following statements are intended to be a useful elaboration of the above summary statement.

• Harton Technology College aims to enable all pupils maximise their potential. The school therefore seeks to promote equality of opportunity for all its pupils regardless of class, culture, exceptional educational need, race or religion. The achievement of equality of opportunity requires that the school.
  • provides an appropriately challenging academic experience for pupils of all ages and ability.
  • provides access for all to a broad, balanced, coherent, relevant and differentiated, curriculum.
  • ensures that pupils are provided with a range of teaching and learning styles.
  • sets realistically high expectations of pupils of all abilities and backgrounds, and assists pupils to meet them.
  • develops, in all its community, respect for and understanding of different viewpoints and perspectives.
  • combats negative and demotivating stereotypes.
  • provides equal access to information on post-16 educational, employment and training opportunities, regardless of aptitude, ability, gender, ethnic or social background.
  • encourages staff to recognise the key role they have to play in positively enforcing and demonstrating these values, and thus influencing the confidence, aspirations and education of all young people at Harton.
• Pupils are likely to learn more effectively in a disciplined, pleasant and caring environment in which they feel comfortable, safe and secure.  The school through the contribution of all teaching and non-teaching staff, aims to provide such an environment.
• The school aims to develop an ethos which fosters good relationships based on mutual respect and tolerance. To this end, all members of the school community are expected to exercise concern for the welfare and feelings of others by demonstrating care, courtesy and consideration. Every opportunity should be taken with pupils to emphasise this aim which will be developed in the curriculum, in tutor time and in assemblies. The school also aims to foster opportunities for pupils to develop and demonstrate these values in practical ways by serving the community within and outside the school, and to recognise such service when it is achieved.
• The school must nurture good relationships with parents recognising that a positive partnership between home and school can have a beneficial influence on pupils’ work habits and attitudes to learning.
• The school aims to provide a pleasant working environment. In order to achieve this aim, the school.
  • recognises that the promotion of good behaviour is as important as the establishment of effective procedures for responding to behaviour which is unacceptable; staff should therefore place greater emphasis in lessons on rewarding achievement than on the issue of sanctions.
  • recognises and encourages the importance of self-discipline in pupils; pupils must be provided with opportunities to show initiative, take responsibility and exercise individual judgement; good habits of self-discipline will constructively influence.
    • work habits
    • attendance
    • punctuality
    • pupil appearance
    • social behaviour and
    • pupils’ interaction with the school environment