On behalf of Nacton Church of England, I extend a warm welcome to you and your children. We hope you enjoy looking at our website and invite you to visit our friendly and thriving school. This is the best way to get the true feel of the school.
We have high aspirations and expectations for all of our pupils, while fostering their social and emotional needs. We value all of our pupils, along with their unique gifts and characters. We aim to provide a broad range of exciting opportunities to inspire and challenge our pupils, though our curriculum and also through a range of enrichment opportunities.
We know children are happiest and learn most effectively when there is a close partnership between home and school, so we work towards building this relationship with our school families.
We are part of the St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Multi Academy Trust. We believe that our core Christian values underpin our day to day teaching and learning, as we continually strive for improvement and progress. As a Church of England school, our ethos of tolerance and mutual respect for all people, regardless of faith or belief, is embedded in all we do.
Mrs Gemma Taylor
Headteacher
Being a learner at Nacton
At Nacton, we focus first and foremost on building and modelling excellent relationships with each other and the children in our care. We treat everyone with ‘unconditional positive regard’. We make it our business to be bothered about and have shared responsibility for each individual, and to go the extra mile to help them thrive. We model compassion through our words and actions when interacting with each other and with children, and we recognise that all human behaviour is communication.
We treat trials and challenges as opportunities for learning and growth. There is only learning. We allow time for children to focus on the process rather than just the end result. We teach them that learning is hard, that it brings setbacks where doubt creeps in and we tell ourselves we are not good enough. We can be led to believe that learning is smooth path to the end goal, when in fact, from learning to walk, to learning to drive a car, there are setbacks and challenges along the way which we have to overcome to master new skills.
We explicitly model the attitudes and dispositions needed to be a successful learner long term and ensure our classroom habits and implicit messages we give children are consistent with providing an environment conductive to developing them.
We believe every child can succeed regardless of background or SEND and give each child access to challenging tasks. We are empathetic when they struggle rather than make them feel ashamed of failure, so that we have the strength to face the set backs, respond to feedback in the pursuit of excellence and work in an agile way towards an end result.