Our Vision and PROUD Values

The Lakeside vision exists to provide a clear and simple statement capturing what it is our school aspires to achieve.  It is our ‘why’ - the reason staff get out of bed every morning to work with Lakeside pupils; the reason parents and carers bring their children through the gates each morning.  It is designed to ensure every single child makes progress and enjoys success.  The vision statement was crafted throughout the 2023-24  academic year with input from governors, leaders, staff and the parent/carer community.

Underpinning our vision sit an incredibly strong and embedded set of school values.  These are the foundation upon which every child can build a successful school day, school week, school year and even school career.  Values provide pupils with a sense of what is right and what is wrong and they can absolutely help shape a person’s mindset and behaviours over a lifetime.

Our values underpin all elements of life in our school. Children are celebrated for demonstrating our values and, over time, they become intrinsic motivators for all children to achieve their very best.  All stakeholders—including staff—are expected to uphold our values and model them on a daily basis.

The values themselves are centred on the word PROUD.  For us to be the most successful school we can be, we want to support everyone connected with the Lakeside community to be proud of themselves, proud of the school and proud of the community they are part of. 

The children at Lakeside talk daily about the importance of their values—they encourage each other to demonstrate them and even hold one another to account for them.  We strongly believe that by embedding these core values in the pupils of Lakeside, we are helping create children who are not just ready to learn in the here and now, but young people who will go on to become successful, well-rounded adults.