Welcome to

Chapel Hill Primary School

Welcome to the website for Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery, which will open in September 2024. I hope that you enjoy your visit to our website. At part of the outstanding Lee Chapel family of schools we pledge to have the very highest expectations and aspirations for all our pupils. Chapel Hill will be a happy and exciting learning community that nurtures high attainment and success for all..

The pupils who will attend our new school will be Chapel Hill’s ambassadors.  They will demonstrate what it means to be a pupil at our school - a place where they are happy, encouraged, respected, nurtured and challenged.  They will help shape our school for all the children who come after them and truly pave the way as young leaders.

The children will be provided with an excellent environment in which we can deliver an aspirational education where pupils can thrive.  We have recruited teachers who are passionate about creating engaging and meaningful experiences and who will build the children’s love for learning in all subjects, including the performing arts, art, design and technology, humanities, physical education and computing.  Chapel Hill’s pupils will leave Year 6 ready for their next step in their educational journey, confident and compassionate members of society.  They will know about the importance of community and the values that underpin this; mutual respect, positive relationships and helping others.  They will be responsible global citizens, equipped with the knowledge and skills to be forces of positive change in the world.

Our Curriculum will be rich in the delivery of basic skills as well as the mastery and application of knowledge.  The learning environment will be stunning and reflect the high emphasis we place on sports and the creative and performing arts to enrich the learning experience.  We aim to reflect the diversity of the community we serve through a strong and powerful community cohesion with high parental involvement across the school.

Chapel Hill is part of the Lee Chapel Multi-Academy Trust.  The Trust is delighted and excited that the school joins the highly successful family of Basildon Primary Schools to provide Outstanding provision for the local community.

Chapel Hill Primary School’s motto, ‘Learning to Succeed’, encapsulates our vision; we are all on a continuous journey of learning, whilst trying to achieve success in everything that we do.  Chapel Hill will be a dynamic yet disciplined place to learn.  We aim for all our pupils to achieve excellent academic results which will enable them to succeed at Primary School and beyond.

Our curriculum is designed to be innovative and flexible, meeting the needs of individual pupils.  Throughout their time at Chapel Hill, pupils will be provided with an impressive range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities.  Our passion for learning, however, will extend well beyond academic life, working hard to develop the cultural, sporting, moral and social side of our pupils, with a school year packed with sports, concerts, productions, trips, charity work and clubs.

Ultimately, what will make Chapel Hill Primary School special will not be its impressive buildings or stunning facilities, but our commitment to always putting our pupils above anything else and to keep on improving.  Chapel Hill Primary School will be a unique place to grow, develop and succeed, for staff and pupils alike. 

We very much look forward to working with you as we embark on your child's learning journey together! 

 

Our Ethos and Values
Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery’s mission statement and school motto sum up the ethos and values that we collectively aspire to.  We are proud to define our motto as: 'Learning to Succeed'.

For us, learning is the key word.  We felt that the motto was a powerful one and allowed multiple interpretations: we are learning how to succeed; learning leads to success; that this is the most important single function of a school.

Learning to succeed is what Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery is about: a love of learning; the motivation to succeed.  Our aim is for children to fulfil their limitless potential – through perseverance and effort.

Excellence, in the words of Aristotle, is not an act but a habit.  We don’t select our pupils, but we do select our staff.  Each highly trained teacher is here to support, guide and inspire our children so that whatever their starting point when they arrive, they leave with the world at their feet – equipped and ready to continue their learning journey into the Secondary phase of their education.  We aim to provide the best opportunities – academic, cultural and sporting - and a sense of moral and social responsibility so that each child realises that humanity is their business and the common good their aim.

Our Mission Statement is designed to create and express our sense of moral purpose, touching on all the things which are important for us.  It is a genuine, sincere statement of belief.

We aim to maximise the full potential of each child and to nurture their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.  We want our children to be happy, healthy and successful, to enjoy learning together and to understand the meaning and importance of upholding principles and values.

We will promote Successful Learners and our Vision is ‘to create an exceptional childhood experience in a supportive atmosphere, guided by our school values of Ambition, Commitment, Kindness, Honesty and Respect’

We will:

• Create a nurturing, happy, safe and caring environment.
• Value each child for their individual talents and interests.
• Help our children to learn about what it means to be respectful and to appreciate diversity and difference.
• Teach an exciting, ambitious and rich curriculum that allows your child to develop physically, emotionally and academically and enables them to achieve individual success.
• Provide an excellent team of highly skilled staff and governors who are committed to a shared sense of purpose..
• Build mutually supportive partnerships with our parents, carers and the local community.
• Actively promote British Values, embedding these principles within our teaching.
• Encourage children, as ambassadors of Chapel Hill, to wear their uniform with pride.
• Equip your child with core academic knowledge, skills and cultural capital needed to be prepared for life.  Prepare our pupils for the challenges and opportunities available to them.

 

Our Values:  Ambition, Commitment, Kindness, Honesty and Respect

At Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery, we expect every child to learn to succeed and be a successful learner.  We set the foundations for this to happen through delivering an outstanding education to each and every child on a daily basis with exceptional teaching and learning.  We are committed to creating an exceptional childhood experience in a supportive atmosphere, guided by our school values of Ambition, Commitment, Kindness, Honesty and Respect.  Empowering each child to unlock their innate talents and abilities across all facets of life, our comprehensive approach embraces academic, creative, and sporting accomplishments while fostering self-confidence and happiness in every child.  We aim to prepare them for a bright future, offering an excellent foundation for lifelong learning and success and instilling these essential values that will serve them well throughout their lives.

Ambition is powerful because it motivates pupils to achieve great things.

In the process of striving to achieve goal, pupils can learn, grow, and help others.  We want all our pupils to be ambitious to achieve their potential and ambitious to be the best they can be at everything they do.  We want them to understand that achieving well is something to be pleased about, that they should be proud of their achievements, and they should also celebrate the achievements of others.  We want them to be ambitious for Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery and everyone in it; to be proud of their school and proud to be a member of it.

Commitment turns dreams into reality.

Commitment is a pupil’s pledge to devote time and energy to achieve their goals.  We want all our pupils to demonstrate their commitment to achieving their goals through perseverance and resilience, to keep trying and to learn to ‘bounce back’ from errors and disappointments.  We want them to know that making mistakes is an essential part of learning.

No act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Kindness means thinking of someone else before yourself, putting someone else’s feelings first and acting in a manner which helps someone feel happy and valued. Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.  We want our pupils to treat everyone the best that you can.  No matter who they are or how you feel about them, you treat them with fairness and respect.  We might think of nice things to do and say all day but when we act, that is kindness.  We believe that when you are kind to each other you fill your ‘bucket’ and the ‘bucket’ of the person you are being kind to.  This creates a ripple effect and kindness spreads from one person to another across our school.

Respect for ourselves guides our values; respect for others guides our manners.

We want all our pupils to be respectful of themselves, of each other, of staff, of the school and of Chapel Hill’s community.  At Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery, pupils will be taught to respect and value everyone and everything and celebrate our differences. There will be no prejudice, no unpleasant comments and no bullying so everyone can feel safe and happy.  Pupils should all try their hardest all the time to be the best they can be, because they respect themselves and no disruption to learning because they respect their peers.  Pupils will respect their school and look after property and respect their community by being superb ambassadors for their school at all times.

Honesty is telling the truth.  Integrity is part of honesty; it means doing what is right, being fair, keeping your word, keeping your promises and being true to yourself and your values.

At Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery, we will teach the value of honesty and for pupils to demonstrate integrity in everything they do.  Pupils will show integrity in their behaviour, evidencing our schools ‘Golden Rules’ wherever they are in school, even if no-one is looking.

Chapel Hill’s Golden Rules

Work Hard
Don’t waste yours or others time

Be Honest
Don’t cover up the truth

Be Kind
Don’t hurt feelings

Be Gentle
Don’t hurt anyone

Look After Property
Don't Damage Property

As a school we are committed to providing a relevant, meaningful and enjoyable curriculum which is accessible to all and complimented by enriching extra-curricular opportunities.  We aim to ensure all pupils have high expectations of themselves and are supported to be able to meet, and even exceed, those ambitions.  We expect them to be aspirational, hard-working, resilient, respectful of others, and to develop the skills they need to for the adult world of work.