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Welcome to Abacus Primary School
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We are a community focused Primary School located in Wickford (Essex), accommodating 420 pupils, aged 4-11 years. We have been rated as a 'Good' school by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted).
We hope you enjoy looking at our website, and sharing in our daily learning journeys.
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Our Mission Statement & Aims
Aspire Believe Achieve Create United Success
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To be welcoming, friendly and caring, so that pupils feel secure, safe, happy and purposefully employed.
To provide a stimulating and varied curriculum.
To achieve high standards and expectations.
To provide access to an ICT rich environment.
To ensure children develop confidence, independence, self motivation,
concentration and high self esteem thus achieving their potential.
To inspire all who contribute to the life of the school to be successful.
Parents to be treated as partners in education, to be courteously received, listened to, fully informed and asked to use a similar code of conduct as that employed by the school.
To involve the community to participate in the life of the school.
To value one another in an ever changing world.
Abacus Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
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We're hoping that training will be available again soon so that we can get new Anti Bullying Ambassadors recruited and trained.
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Our Anti Bullying Ambassadors are from Years 5 and 6 and they are a really important part of the way we try and ensure everyone in our school feels included, supported and celebrated. They meet weekly with Mrs Mugford, our Learning Mentor, who supports them in running activities with children across the school to raise awareness about bullying and how we should manage our feelings and think about the feelings of others.
The Anti Bullying Ambassadors are trained by the Diana Award, the only charity set up in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales and her belief that young people have the power to change the world. As part of the Diana Programme the ambassadors focus on four key areas: community, respect, wellbeing and online safety. In April we secured the Wellbeing badge for our efforts and the team at the Diana Award commented:
“We’ve reviewed your evidence [for the Wellbeing badge] and we were overwhelmed with how much thought and effort you’ve put into the Wellbeing focused anti-bullying activities. It seems like all of the activities have had a great impact on the wellbeing of students in your school and we really like that you use such creative ideas like music, exercise and play.
The video was an amazing way for us to see the work in practice and to hear the different voices in the school. Thank you so much for making / sharing that with us - we loved it!!
We are now working towards the Respect badge and hope to secure that by February half term. Class assemblies, lunchtime activities and games, whole school assemblies and iMovie creations are some of the Anti Bullying Ambassadors’ favourite ways of engaging with the children at school to make sure everyone knows there is always someone ready to be their friend and to listen to them.