Ethos & Values

At Little Lever School, everything we do is driven by a simple but powerful core purpose:

Our Core Purpose

To help every young person achieve things they never thought they could.

We believe that every child has extraordinary potential. Our role is to nurture that potential, challenge students to aim high, and provide the support, encouragement and opportunities they need to thrive—academically, personally and socially.

When students wear the Little Lever blazer they take up the responsibility to ‘leave the blazer in a better place’. This means they represent all the students and staff that currently attend and have previously attended Little Lever, all the future generations that will attend Little Lever and everyone in their community. It’s a great responsibility to have!

Our Core Values

We have core values that students and staff recognise as the most important values to help them achieve things they never thought they could. Our expectations of behaviour are driven by these three values:

1. Be Kind

  • We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times to all people. 
  • We don’t take advantage of others and helping a member of our team is helping ourselves.
  • We play by the rules so everyone can benefit.

2. Work Hard

  • We never give up.
  • We remain positive so that we have the strength to persevere with even the hardest of work.
  • We do what it takes for as long as it takes.

3. Take Responsibility

  • We are honest. 
  • We accept we are in control of our actions 
  • We do what we say we will do and do not make excuses. 
  • We have the courage to do the right thing.

A Culture of High Expectations

We believe in our students’ ability to achieve things they never thought they could. Our staff set clear, consistent expectations and provide the guidance and support needed for students to meet them. We challenge students to aim high, think big and believe in themselves.

Habits & Routines

At Little Lever School, all of our habits are designed in a way that allows all children to effectively use them so they can help themselves and help others achieve things they never thought they could. We build simple routines around all of our habits so all children including those children with special educational needs can follow our habits. Reasonable adjustments are made to ensure all students are able to follow our habits.

Our learning habits are:

  • We follow Perfect Climate in our classrooms.
  • We are quiet and sensible when we are outside of the classroom (Corridor Climate).
  • We Track the Teacher with our eyes and listen when they speak.
  • When an adult raises their hand and counts down 3...2...1 we are silent on 1.
  • We always follow a reasonable request first time.
  • We have our equipment at all times (Pencil case, Pen, Pencil, ruler, purple pen, mini-whiteboard pen, mini whiteboard, timetable).
  • We wear the correct uniform in the right way.
  • We are ‘on time’ (punctual).