Ullswater Community College is proud to provide a high-quality education for the community that we serve, encouraging a culture of aspiration and ambition. This very close and diverse community – known as UCC – has the highest ambitions for all its students. Warm and honest relationships are at the heart of our work and are based upon genuine mutual respect.
We are a happy and caring school – happy students achieve more than unhappy ones. Our hard-working and talented staff are truly child-centred and work collaboratively to ensure that every student at UCC is equal and receives the highest quality of teaching and support.
Our key aim is to develop an aspirational culture and to encourage all of our students to challenge themselves, naturally in the academic curriculum but also in every other sphere of a truly extensive enrichment programme.
UCC is a place where every student feels equally valued and well known to their peers and staff. Learning in a lively and outward-looking community with a range of academic, cultural, sporting and social experiences, our students are ready and able to face the demands and challenges, the choices and changes of life in the twenty-first century.
Principles
Three fundamental values guide all our strategic planning, organisation and operation:
Ambitious
This is a clear priority and we are relentlessly ambitious and self-critical in the pursuit of outstanding outcomes and progress for all students. By recognising and celebrating achievements and enhancing students’ self-esteem whilst supporting them in demanding the highest academic standards and social development, we are committed to developing a positive and inclusive learning culture.
Caring
Every student has a right to receive the best possible teaching and support to ensure a truly high-quality learning environment exists throughout college. We are inclusive and responsive to students’ needs and proactive in identifying and providing pastoral, academic and transition support and intervention. At the heart of this approach is one to one work with senior, pastoral, support staff and older student mentors.
Equal
Each student is entitled to a comprehensive, broad and balanced curriculum that is relevant to his or her individual needs is fundamental in supporting an educational culture that is inclusive, diverse and authentic. Every student has a right to receive the best possible teaching and support to ensure a truly high-quality learning environment exists throughout college.
Mission statement
We are fiercely ambitious on behalf of all our students, providing an educational culture that is inclusive, diverse and authentic. We are relentlessly self-critical in the pursuit of this culture. We will secure good levels of academic progress at every level of ability by providing the highest possible quality of teaching and learning and the most appropriate curriculum. We are inclusive and responsive to students’ needs to ensure that all feel valued and supported in their learning. We are a happy, caring and equal school – happy students achieve more than unhappy ones. We will be an active partner within the communities we serve, sharing our resources and expertise. Within these communities, we will promote lifelong learning and lifelong employability by enabling all to develop the knowledge, skills, enterprise and values needed to meet the challenges that lie ahead.