Our Church School

At Sherrier Church of England School, we aim to create a positive learning environment where everyone is valued, supported, and encouraged to achieve within our Christian ethos. Our curriculum nurtures creativity, compassion, and community spirit. We develop creative individuals who problem-solve and think from different perspectives through The Arts and philosophical thinking. We foster compassionate individuals who care for themselves, others, and the world, taking positive action to help. We cultivate community-spirited individuals who understand their local area and contribute to their communities. By instilling these values, we prepare our children to lead lives filled with purpose and passion.

Be Creative

• We enjoy working together to teach our children to create new and exciting solutions to make our world a better place. We believe we can make a difference no matter how large or small.

• Our School is a place where we can experiment and take risks in order that we might better ourselves, our learning and the world we live in.

• Children at Sherrier are taught to think creatively and we encourage looking at things from different viewpoints.

This flows from our Christian character. The Bible begins with a Creator God. He brings order to the world and fills it with life. He makes human beings to be like Him, “in His image”, and gives them the task of developing this world He has made, reflecting His creativity. This includes many things people do: exploring the world, developing technology, building community, expressing beauty and truth in the arts and caring for the environment. In all these things and more we seek to nurture the creativity of the children in our school.

Be Community Spirited

By attending our School, we welcome you as part of the Sherrier Family, a school community that cares for each other and celebrates our differences, achievements and contributions.

• We support each other through challenges and difficulties in acts of friendship, kindness and compassion.

• Our aim is that all children and families have a sense of belonging and feel they are treated fairly and with respect.

• Sherrier plays a central role in the local community and is continuing to build links and partnerships with local churches, businesses and charitable organisations.

• We aim to allow children to see themselves in the wider world community and hope they will make positive changes in global issues.

 This flows from our Christian character. The Bible is clear that humans do not flourish on their own, isolated from others. God does not create people to be alone but in community. The Bible also tells how that original united human community was broken and also of God’s plan to mend what was ruined. When He does, He does not just pluck individuals out of the mess, instead He creates a new human community. The Christian picture of abundant life is deeply rooted in community.

We both pursue a strong school community and root ourselves deeply in our local community with its interlocking parts. We support one another, champion one another’s achievements and care for one another’s well-being. We seek to foster a vision of what it means to be human that is not limited to individual academic achievement. It also includes participation in and contribution to a wider community, enabling the children to grow into being part of our local community.

Be Compassionate

This centres around care for ourselves, care for others and care for the world. However, we would like children to understand how to take action to support others in any way they can. 

• Care for ourselves: This is connected not only to health and hygiene but to care for our own mental health and wellbeing. In an ever-changing technological world, we will focus on teaching children to stay safe online as well as how they can keep themselves road and water-safe and have an awareness of their own personal safety.

• Care for others: We are proud of the relationships that develop between the children and staff at Sherrier. We always go the ‘extra mile’ for our families and provide personalised pastoral care for children and adults alike. Our families are always generous when giving to chosen charities and children are always keen to help others in many other ways.

• Care for the World: An integral part of the curriculum is to support children to be articulate and effective problem-solvers. We are raising awareness of current global issues and what action we must take to care for the world and the people in it.

 This flows from our Christian character. The Bible tells of what has gone wrong with the good world God has made. But it also tells how in His great compassion He planned to put things right. Despite the way people turned away from Him, He did not give up. His love drove Him to act to reconcile people to Himself and to heal a broken world. So great is His compassion that He went to the furthest possible lengths imaginable: God the Son becomes human to die for us, so we might be forgiven and this world made whole.

We hope to reflect this kind of heart of compassion in the life of our school. It is a compassion that cares for the suffering and that draws in the outsider. It is a generous compassion that goes the extra mile for others. It is a compassion that even reaches out to those who have done wrong, seeking reconciliation and restoration.

Our School Aims

We believe in: 

• Developing outstanding character and attitudes to learning in preparation for future challenges in a changing world.

• Promoting physical and mental health in a happy caring environment that is supportive and encouraging.

• Making a difference to the world we live in through encouraging our pupils to be innovative and enterprising to help find solutions to local and global issues.

• Developing social skills and an appreciation of each person’s unique strengths, respecting and embracing different cultures, races and religions.

• Fostering a deep sense of care and nurture for the world we live in and the people around us.

• Creating a broad range of inspiring experiences that allows children to develop skills and find their place in the world.

• Working in partnership with our School community and beyond to build brighter futures.

• High expectations alongside a culture of self-awareness, reflection and self-improvement.

Christian Values

RE Policy

Sherrier Collective Worship Policy

Collective Worship is a statutory requirement for all schools in England and Wales. However, at Sherrier C of E Primary School, Collective Worship is so much more than this.  It is a time for our school community to come together, learn together, reflect together, a time for children, staff and visitors to be still, engage and if they feel called to, respond.  It is the heartbeat of our school and it plays a fundamental role in shaping pupils’ character, thinking and actions. 

Worship reflects the variety of traditions found in the Church of England as well as other Christian traditions, and recognises and follows the Church of England’s liturgical year. The daily act of worship is central to our ethos and is supported by all staff and governors, it is inclusive, invitational and inspiring.

Collective Worship at Sherrier strengthens and supports the distinctive Christian character of our school and reaffirms our Christian values of friendship, forgiveness, courage, thankfulness, justice, 

Our Collective Worship is held daily in school with Years 1 – 6 in attendance, whilst Foundation Stage hold their own Collective Worship. Collective Worship is a time to feel part of the Sherrier community and allows all children and adults to feel welcomed, regardless of personal beliefs. Here our Collective Worship is mapped out for the year, with different class teachers allocated the delivery of Collective Worship across the school year. This ensures that all staff have the opportunity for spiritual reflection and allows children to realise that all adults have a connect to RE, not just the RE lead. 

Please find here how Sherrier’s Collective Worship looks like.

Our school community takes part in collective worship on a daily basis, as follows

• Monday – Picture News – A Global Citizenship theme

• Tuesday – Singing assembly + in class Collective Worship extending the learning from Picture News

• Wednesday – Christian Values / Festival links

• Thursday – iSing Pop

• Friday – Celebration – recognition of Christian Values/3C’s in action

Sherrier Spirituality Policy

Spirituality at Sherrier C of E Primary School means recognising a belief that there is something bigger than ourselves that cannot be held or touched. We believe that each of us has a soul that needs to be nurtured: it involves focusing on our thoughts, beliefs and values as individuals, as a school and within the wider community. This belief helps to guide us in our decision-making and instils respect for all other people and the world around us.

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development is crucial for individual pupils and important for society as a whole. It is the heart of what education is all about – helping pupils grow and develop as people and effective participants in modern Britain- ‘Teach children how to live and they will remember it all their lives’. Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development is cross curricular and promotes the aims and principles of the policies for, Religious Education, Collective Worship, PSHE, Relationships and Sex Education, and Equal Opportunities.

These policies all underpin the Curriculum model, putting the child at the centre of all we do.

It is an expectation that all staff, in all subjects, can and should contribute to the Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development of pupils through the curriculum and through the use of appropriate teaching and learning strategies e.g. discussion, reflection, pupil participation and also through their own conduct.

The importance of relationships between all school staff, parents and governors is vital. 

Children have the opportunity to reflect spiritually each week (Ow, Wow and Now moments) and share this in our ‘Spirituality Book’. Dedicating this time allows children to exist in the moment and really unpick their week and the moments that have stuck with them. They are able to have further reflection time if they choose to visit the ‘Reflection Section’ in school where there are simple tasks they can reflect upon. Adults can also include their own moments in the spirituality book or visit the Reflection Section. The upgraded staff room has created a calm place for all staff and this has enhanced our ‘Now’ moments, giving time to all staff to take a break for themselves during the school day.

Throughout their time at Sherrier, our children visit a variety of places of worship in multi-cultural Leicester and the surrounding areas, which are in contrast to the demographics of Lutterworth.

Through these opportunities, pupils learn to understand, respect and celebrate difference and diversity. This promotes, equality, respect and non-discrimination, as well as principles of diversity, unity and freedom of religion. All pupils will all have the opportunity to visit the following places of worship during their time at Sherrier;​

– St Mary’s Church. Lutterworth

-Lutterworth Methodist Church, Lutterworth

At Sherrier C of E Primary School we have a strong emphasis on encouraging our pupils to become courageous advocates, not just locally, but nationally and globally.

​In many areas of our curriculum we educate our pupils to understand that it is important to help others when we can, irrespective of who people are or where they come from. This is taught through the teachings of the bible and learning about other courageous advocates including modern day advocates such as  Sir David Attenborough, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg and Marcus Rashford. Through our Christian vision and values and through carefully planned opportunities within our curriculum, we ensure that the children have opportunities to discuss significant issues, to challenge injustice and inequality, and to engage in activities that can bring about change. This learning is supplemented with visitors from our local, partner charities. Our work with  partner charities also allows children   to look beyond themselves, ask big questions, think globally about life, and develop an understanding of disadvantage, deprivation, and the exploitation of the natural world.

Our school community and curriculum actively embraces a responsibility for the world in which we live and together we consider the wonder and fragility of our environment, the actions we take, and the impact these actions may have on the well-being of everyone.  

We believe that it is important for our children to appreciate their role as part of a local, national and global community; to take responsibility and understand their impact and influence in the world. We support a range of charities locally, nationally and globally. At Sherrier, the children often lead the acts of courageous advocacy but the staff also give them opportunities to engage in this on a larger scale, and support them to organise and share the reasons for what they are doing. We hope these experiences enrich and enhances our children’s foundations (roots) and inspires them into lifelong service, courageous advocacy and ‘they will remember it all their lives’.

Some examples of our children showing Courageous Advocacy: 

Our school community and curriculum actively embraces a responsibility for the world in which we live and together we consider the wonder and fragility of our environment, the actions we take, and the impact these actions may have on the well-being of everyone. 

 We believe that it is important for our children to appreciate their role as part of a local, national and global community; to take responsibility and understand their impact and influence in the world. We support a range of charities locally, nationally and globally. At Sherrier, the children often lead the acts of courageous advocacy but the staff also give them opportunities to engage in this on a larger scale, and support them to organise and share the reasons for what they are doing. We hope these experiences enrich and enhances our children’s foundations (roots) and inspires them into lifelong service, courageous advocacy and ‘they will remember it all their lives’.

Some examples of our children showing Courageous Advocacy: 

SIAMS Report Sherrier Church Of England Primary School