Vision, Ethos, and Strategy

Vision: Bakewell Children Learning and Growing
Bakewell Children Learning and Growing
- Together, we do all we can to be the best that we can be.
Ethos: Kind, Inclusive, Courageous
Our ethos is that all children and adults, in all aspects of school
life, be kind, inclusive and courageous.

Strategy: Curriculum, Church, Community, Communication
Strengthening and deepening:
- our whole curriculum, formal and informal - all that is taught, how it is taught, how it is
learnt
- our relationship with the Methodist Church - locally, nationally, internationally
- our links with the wider Bakewell community - families, friends, networks, schools,
groups
- effective communication within school, with wider networks, and with local links
- Bakewell Methodist Academy Local Advisory Board 10th November 2025

A Perspective from the Gospels: Jesus, Children, and a Tree
Each child matters
“Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you, in heaven their
angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. What do you think? If a shepherd
has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine
on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly I
tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is
not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.”
(Matthew 18.10-14)
Each child welcomed in
An argument arose among them concerning which one of them was the greatest. But
Jesus, aware of their inner thoughts, took a little child and put it by his side and said to
them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes
me welcomes the one who sent me, for the least among all of you is the greatest.” (Luke
9.46-48)
Celebrating each child’s curiosity, hope and potential
People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them, and when the
disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and
said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that
the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of
God as a little child will never enter it. (Luke 18.15-17)
Flourishing together
Jesus said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use
for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all
the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all
shrubs and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its
shade.” (Mark 4.30-32)