The governors and staff have embraced a new way of working, a way that ranks social inclusion as highly as the dynamic and challenging curriculum that we deliver.

Tile Hill Stake Holders Group

•  Sure Start
•  West Midland Police
•  R.S.V.P.
•  Leisure Services
•  Health promotion Services
•  Business in the Community
•  Health Development Unit.
•  Warwick Arts Centre
•  Midlands Sports Centre
•  Fire Service
•  Primary Care Trust
•  Childcare Development Team
•  Area Co-ordination
•  Arts Exchange
•  Library Service
•  Residents Association
•  Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
•  St Oswald's Church
•  Limbrick Wood Church
•  Community Education
•  SHADOW
•  Adult Education
•  Severn Trent Water

The School's Mission Statement

We feel there is no privilege or responsibility greater than guiding the learning of children. At Limbrick Wood we will provide a caring, secure and challenging environment, where children and staff can develop fully sharing their expertise and growing in confidence. In our school community we will foster academic, spiritual and physical growth.

The school environment will offer positive support to all, it acknowledges the strengths, abilities and skills of the individual and encourages them to share these and enhance the life of the school community. We will provide a structured environment, which will encourage self-discipline, recognition of authority, self esteem, respect for others and the world about us. We recognise the place of our school in the community, the place of our children within that community and value the support it can give us.

Areas for Future Development 

Wraparound

Limbrick Wood currently operates a breakfast club and an after school club. We would seek to develop further how we respond to different needs by looking at new ways of working.

The school day in essence has remained unchanged for the past hundred years. However, the society in which we live is evolving and changing and schools must adapt in order to respond to the current aspirations of families. At Limbrick Wood we would work with the community to determine the current demand ways to meet it, including; remaining open for greater parts of the day and during holidays.

Closer Links with Sure Start.

The school has an excellent record of working together with Sure Start. There have been several joint initiatives that have been extremely successful, these include; mother and toddler sessions, parent support sessions as well as the work done with the nursery. We would wish to build upon this in the future and create even greater ties. Our foundation stage teachers could offer expertise with Early Years curriculum issues as well as offering their support for teaching and learning issues. As Sure Start evolves into a Children's Centre it is essential that we share a common approach to supporting our community and work together.

Learning Opportunities

Lifelong Learning

We recognise that for our children to succeed it is vital that parents are involved and supportive of their children's learning. Some of our parents feel that they have missed learning opportunities when they were at school and would welcome the chance to revisit their own learning. Currently, Limbrick Wood is involved with several agencies that provide adult classes. The school has developed a Community Classroom within the building specifically for this purpose and we run many classes for parents. However, it is very difficult to effectively involve our community as there are years of mistrust and prejudice to overcome. We have found that the most effective approach is where parents either see a direct link to their children or where the class is resourced is such a way that they can see direct gain for themselves. For instance when we ran ‘Footsteps into books', the sessions were resourced with book tokens for children, this was one of our most successful classes.

We would like to develop further the lifelong learning opportunities that we provide by looking at ways that we can directly support our community needs. This may mean that we have to remain open during the evenings and during the holidays in order that we can meet this need. There would also be a need for classes to be resourced in such a way that they are free at the point of entry and demonstrate quite clearly how they will benefit students both in the short and long term.

Extended Opening Times

The availability of the school as a resource for our community is currently limited to the times that we open for our pupils. We would seek to extend these periods in order that there are opportunities for community meetings, drop in sessions and that social events can take place. This would be in addition to extra learning opportunities that would be taking place.

The school currently enjoys a positive view from the local community; we would seek to build upon this by offering it as a true community resource that they could value and use.

Developed Play Areas

Limbrick Wood site offers a large, safe environment in which children can access a range of sporting activities. Currently this is restricted to pupils of the school. However, the school would like to open its grounds for more general use at evenings, weekends and holidays.

The school has been involved with other agencies in running holiday clubs on the school site. We would like to develop our provision to enable learning, sporting and social activities to take place.

Health Professionals  

A team of health professionals, allocated to school at specific times, to provide a 'drop - in,' facility alongside a more structured appointments system which builds working relationships with families to provide ongoing support. A sort of one-stop shop.

School Nurse

Our current requirements are poorly met due to the high level of need in school. A school-based nurse would be well placed to take a proactive approach in areas such as personal hygiene, head lice and soiling. The nurse could support children and their families in this way.

Health Visitor

Working alongside our experienced Foundation team, this would be a powerful partnership to encourage families to access the expertise available to ensure that young children thrive and develop as they should.

Speech Therapist

Too many of our children are unable to communicate effectively on entry to Nursery. This can be a problem throughout their school life. They need regular, focused support to develop language skills. A speech therapist allocated to school for a certain number of hours each week would provide valuable support for children and their families.

The presence of health professionals in school on a regular basis would encourage older children to feel more at ease and less threatened by these services. There could be curriculum input which would improve the life chances of our children by early intervention on issues such as healthy eating, sex education and teenage pregnancy - all key issues in this area.

Social Services

The team at Coundon regularly use our premises for meetings, reviews and child therapy. We would like to build upon this strong foundation and provide a base for a Family Support worker to be proactive within the community. We feel that regular sessions on issues such as parenting skills, behaviour management and the importance of routines and boundaries would be of great use to parents and children. There could also be advice sessions for the wider community at specific times.

Relate 'Time for You' Service

Our children live in a community where everyday experience includes; domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, criminal activity and family breakdown. School staff spend much of their time supporting children emotionally but are obviously not equipped to counsel children. A counsellor, in school for a day a week, could take a proactive approach, both helping children who need one to one sessions and taking groups for confidence building activities and anger management etc. There could be regular afternoon sessions for the wider community, aimed, for example, at building the confidence and independence needed to enable adults to rejoin the workforce.

Nurture and Social Inclusion

Our nurturing philosophy, with its core in the excellent practice in our nurture room, is extremely successful in building confidence and social skills in children to enable them to function more successfully in the wider world. We would like to extend this provision to adults, again building confidence and life skills which promote independence and choice.