Our Vision and Values

The Vale Federation is a group of special schools based in Aylesbury, catering to the needs of children from primary age through to post 16. This currently consists of Booker Park (Primary) Special School and Stocklake Park (Secondary) Special School.

The Vale Federation website gives you a flavour of our corporate identity and wonderful facilities that are available to both businesses and our local community.

We look for all our young people to be successful learners enabling them to achieve in a caring and supportive environment. Working together is at the heart of The Vale Federation and our relationship with parents, carers and all the many professionals is central to helping our young people succeed.

Our Vision

Through a multi-professional approach, we will create a high quality, inclusive, happy, and safe school environment where pupils with a range of learning difficulties are:

  • Inspired to engage in learning

  • Enabled to realise their greatest level of independence and emotional resilience

  • Supported to recognise and celebrate their achievements now and in the future

Our Values

Through a multi-professional approach, we will create a high quality, inclusive, happy, and safe school environment where pupils with a range of learning difficulties are:

Excellence

We aim for our pupils to give their best in everything that they do. We recognise all their small steps of progress and their achievements. Whatever the child’s starting point, we have high expectations of them. All children can make progress with their academic skills, their physical skills, their communication skills, and their personal development.

Staff have high expectations of themselves and fulfil their role to a standard of excellence.

Trust

We aim for our pupils to learn in a school environment that is safe and secure, and to develop trusting relationships with others. Over time, we want our pupils to develop a sense of responsibility. We aim for children to develop an awareness of who they can trust in the wider community. Staff always act in a trustworthy manner. They are honest and reliable at all times.

Courage

We aim for our pupils to show courage in the challenges that they will face in life. It takes courage to have the confidence to have a go, to be willing to make mistakes, and to bounce back after a mistake.

Staff model Determination:

We aim for our pupils to always persevere, even when something may be difficult, to keep going and not give up, and to develop a positive “can do” attitude. Staff are unfailingly determined to support pupils in achieving their very best.

Kindness:

We aim for our pupils to show kindness to others. We value being polite, friendly, and welcoming to others.

Staff always act in a manner that demonstrates kindness towards children and towards each other. Staff are positive role models for children.

Friendship:

We aim for our pupils to develop communication and social interaction skills in order to develop positive friendships with others, and to take pleasure in shared experiences. Staff demonstrate friendship by being caring, supportive, having fun, and sharing ideas.

Respect:

We aim for our pupils to learn and develop in a school environment that promotes tolerance and respect for individual differences, abilities, needs, and beliefs. We aim for our pupils to develop into individuals who respect themselves and respect others by treating them with consideration and care, and recognising that not everybody is the same. Staff are positive role models at all times and demonstrate their respect for others through their behaviour.

Equity:

We aim for our pupils to experience a school environment in which fairness is promoted. Equity is achieved by understanding that individuals need different levels and types of support to achieve their goals.

Staff are committed to ensuring that each individual has their needs well met.

Our Aims

  • To provide a safe, healthy, and stimulating environment in which children may develop with confidence

  • Help children develop meaningful and effective forms of communication

  • Encourage confidence and desire to initiate and participate in social interaction

  • To enable each child to have full access to the Curriculum, regardless of sex, race, or ability and to deliver it in a way that is differentiated to suit the needs of each individual child

  • To help children investigate, understand, and appreciate the world in which they live

  • To help each child to become a happy, caring young person who can contribute to the community in a positive way

  • To enable each child to experience success, to feel positive about themselves, and others and to be valued and accepted as individuals

Key Information

Our teaching and non-teaching staff work to provide the best that they possibly can, to support all our children and young people’s unique learning needs. Our Governors link the school with the community and play a key role in the effectiveness of the school. The governing board’s job is to look at all aspects of the school’s performance and ensure it is achieving its full potential, as well as working with the Principal and Senior Leadership Team to provide strategic leadership and accountability. Please click below to meet our wonderful team and Governors, as well as find out more about our policies and procedures.

Policies

The Governing Board