Our school values are an integral part of who we are as a people and as a community. They are the things that we believe are important. Values have a major influence on a person's behavior and attitude. Every day and every moment they serve as broad guidelines in all situations in guiding us in the choices we make and the actions we take.
Relationships: We nurture our connection with others.
Respect: We are understanding and are considerate of everyone’s rights.
Resilience: We are brave when faced with challenges.
Responsibility: We recognise our actions and make a positive difference.
As a school, we aim to nurture these values in our students by providing with a comprehensive education with diverse opportunities to develop skills to achieve their personal best. It is from all of us as staff, parents and a community that we can demonstrate the importance of values in our lives to the youngest in our community by upholding these values as exemplary role models.
As a school community, we embrace a partnership of lifelong learning to be able to contribute as citizens in the community and in the future complex and changing world.
Relationships: We nurture our connection with others.
Maramba Primary School is part of the community. We want to be central to it so that everyone will feel as much a part of us as we are of them.
We nurture our connection with others. Together we can do much more than we can individually and the strength of a school can be found in the connections and relationships we form as a community. We can share opinions; support each other; manage more complex tasks.
We strive to do this by:
Respect: We are understanding and considerate of everyone’s rights.
You can give and model respect by
Some of our values are about how we treat other people and what consideration we give them. Respect is not usually a one-off event or action. It is at the heart of all behaviour, the underlying principle. How we treat and consider other people, the environment and ourselves is an important life value.
You can give and show respect by:
Resilience: We are brave when faced with challenges.
Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to overcome the challenges they face.
You can show your resilience by:
While some of the core factors that make someone resilient are, a positive attitude, optimism, the ability to regulate emotions, and the ability to see failure as a form of helpful feedback, there are other key attributes of resilience.
These include:
Responsibility: We recognise our actions and make a positive difference.
Our school values logo is representative of responsibility being constant and ongoing. We have an individual and collective responsibility for:
The environment
Ourselves – choices and actions
Others – family, friends and community
As a school, we want to encourage everyone to keep developing and growing, expanding our minds and our horizons.
We can show our responsibility and commitment through: