The motto of Lakelands School, Sports and Language College is ‘Excellence Through Achievement’. It is this spirit that we wish to engender in our students.
The Lakelands School, Sports and Language College believe that ‘Every Child Matters’
Here at Lakelands we aim to:

• Create a stimulating, exciting and lively learning environment that encourages initiative and self-confidence in all its members

• Offers a relevant, broad and balanced range of learning activities, which provides a wide variety of challenging experiences that are carefully matched to the needs of individuals

• Be responsive to the needs of its pupils, parents, teachers, governors, and its local community

• Create a happy, supportive atmosphere in which there is firm commitment to policy of equal opportunities and we want every child to fulfil their potential, regardless of their background or circumstance

• Be an efficiently run, well ordered, happy and successful school which students enjoy attending and which is well regarded in the community.

These key aims form the basis of our school’s objectives and success criteria. They also form the basis of the aims for each subject department.

They accord with the Department of Education and Skill’s aims for the education services regarding improving outcomes for children and young people- “ Every Child Matters” (2003)