At Backwell Junior School children learn through the distinctive Christian ethos to live life to the full. The School’s vision statement is to ‘Aspire, Achieve and Celebrate’ and this permeates all we do as a school community. Children are supported to be the best people they can be and this is underpinned by our school principles - the Backwell B’s: ‘Be Kind’, ‘Be your Best’ and ‘Be Responsible’. We also have a termly value which is the focus of our daily worship assemblies.  These Christian values impact on all aspects of school life supporting children to thrive in all aspects of their development.

A culture of ‘learning without limits’, where all children are fully involved in shaping their own learning choices and where investigation, collaboration and challenge is core, is also fully embedded into everything that we do.

'I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full'

Our own school ethos and values are a reflection of this message and our culture of 'Learning Without Limits' enables us to offer our pupils the opportunity to live life and all of its opportunities to the full.

Our termly values focus on, and link very closely to, the teachings of Jesus and we ask our pupils to aspire to be the very best people that they can in everything that they do.

Learning Without Limits - Together We Aspire, Achieve and Celebrate

We encourage pupils to reflect on this through our Backwell Bs:

Be Kind

Be Responsible

Be Your Best

Pupil Chaplains

We are incredibly lucky to work closely with St Andrew's Church who help us to train and support our wonderful Backwell Junior School Pupl chaplains. These Year 5 and 6 pupils help to run worship sessions both in school and in church and are a highly visible and supportive part of our church school community.

Reflection areas in our classrooms

Each of our classrooms has a reflection area where the children can spend quiet time. They each have prayer box too which the children use to post their prayers into. 

Also, each class has a book of prayers they write at the start of each year and read daily to worship as a class.

Over the course of the year teachers add children's RE work to the areas, work from Church Days and our school values work.