St. Giles Church of England Primary School

Thank you for visiting our website. Whether you are visiting as a prospective pupil, parent, teacher or Governor, we hope to provide an insight into what’s on offer for our children here in the community of Killamarsh.

St Giles is a vibrant, thriving school with high academic standards, where a strong emphasis is placed on the individual child, within a Christian ethos of love and mutual respect. We are part of the Derby Diocesan Academy Trust (DDAT), having converted on 1st September 2017. We are constantly seeking to improve further, and have achieved higher standards in the last two years at KS2, and three-year rising trends at EYFS, Y1 phonics and KS1 Sats results. Since January 2019, we have achieved the Primary Science Quality Mark, Healthy Schools Community Award, RE Quality Mark Silver Award and Eco Schools Bronze Award (with the help of our pupil-led Eco Squad).  

Everybody Matters at St Giles. We have a  highly inclusive outlook, and place a fundamental importance on safeguarding and protecting our children from harm at all levels and in all forms. We encourage our children to make the most of the many opportunities we give them, so that they are highly motivated to learn and are prepared for the next exciting stages of their lives.

The partnership that the school develops with parents makes a profound contribution to the successful development and achievement enjoyed by our children. Parents have a vital part to play in what the school seeks to do and can help children come to school prepared, equipped and ready to play a full part in the caring, family atmosphere here.

We have high expectations in work, play and social behaviour so that each and every child will benefit from an inspirational experience at the start of their school lives, and where they can feel happy, secure, valued and loved.

Come and visit us – we look forward to seeing you in school!

Matt Loader

Headteacher

School Ethos and Values (Vision and Mission)

Everybody Matters

Vision Statement

Through God’s love, all will feel safe, flourish, be cherished, nurtured and succeed in this happy, inspirational Christian school.

Mission Statement

  We aim to achieve this by:

 Looking after you:

• Keeping you safe, and being highly inclusive.
• Helping you choose right from wrong, like Jesus taught us.
• Rooting our values in Christian teaching, enabling everybody to be kind and caring within God’s creation.
• Guiding all to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• Helping you to feel good about yourself, especially for those who find this hard.
• Teaching you to be safe online, so you can learn from the internet and have fun.

Helping you to achieve well in your work:

• Fostering a love of reading and making sure that you can all read well.
• Making work exciting and challenging, so you aim high in every subject and have success – including in art, music, sport and dance, experiencing life in all its fullness.
• Giving extra help to anyone who needs it.
• Letting you be creative and encouraging curiosity, awe and wonder at God’s creation.
• Working with your parents so that we can all help you together.
• Helping you work in teams to solve problems, discuss and find answers to things, even if you don’t always agree.