The Batt School Vision

Love Everyone, Love the Adventure of Learning

The Batt is an inclusive and nurturing school, guided by Christ’s teaching on love through the parable of the Good Samaritan. We enable everyone in our community to flourish by encouraging supportive friendships, respect for self and others and perseverance in all things. This develops a life-long love of learning and commitment to service.

 ‘Love your neighbour, as you love yourself’ Luke 10:27 

Our Vision Explained

Our Vision for The Batt grows from Christ's teaching ‘Love your neighbour, as you love yourself’ (Luke 10:27) and the parable of The Good Samaritan. It reflects our inclusive ethos and commitment to ensuring that all in our school community can flourish though a life dedicated to love, learning and service.

Our vision also celebrates our connection with the Batt family who founded The Batt Trust, which gave the land for our school to be built in 1928. This local family, with generations of doctors and surgeons, devoted themselves to the service of others and their family memorial in St Mary's Church recalls the story of The Good Samaritan.

The Batt Family Memorial, St Mary's Church, Witney

The Batt School Christian Values

Our values enable us to live our vision and are at the heart of all that we do. We hope that visitors will see our values reflected in school and that we all take them with us beyond the school gates.

At the Batt School, our core Christian values are:

Love 
We are guided by Christ's teaching on love. Love underpins everything we do and is evident in our relationships with each other and our actions to support our community and our world.

 ‘Love your neighbour, as you love yourself’ Luke 10:27 

Respect

We are an inclusive school, valuing respect for ourselves and others and valuing diversity and inclusion.

‘So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.’ Matthew 7:12

Friendship 

We enable everyone in our community to flourish by encouraging supportive friendships that help us to grow and value each individual.

 'Encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.' 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Perseverence 

We encourage all to have self belief in order to keep on going and to speak out for what we believe is right, reflecting upon God's persevering love. 

'Those who trust the LORD will find new strength. They will be strong like eagles soaring upward on wings; they will walk and run without getting tired.' Isaiah 40:29-31