WELCOME
On behalf of the staff, pupils, parents and governors, I would like to welcome you to our website at Primrose Hill Primary School.
Primrose Hill prides itself in providing a happy, safe, secure and supportive learning environment where good order and discipline are preserved to enable your child to achieve academic and personal excellence.
Confidence within a school comes from knowing and understanding what is happening within it. This website provides information you may require initially but it is only through personal contact with myself and the staff that mutual trust and understanding can develop, which should be the basis of our shared responsibility.
CLASSES
Presently, there are 195 children on roll organised into 7 classes. However numbers are growing , partly as a result of extensive housing development within the area but also due to the excellent reputation that the school has for giving all children a chance to achieve their potential. The school’s admission number in the infants is 30
ADMISSIONS
For more details on School Admissions and to apply online, please visit the County Council's Online Admissions Portal
OUR ENVIRONMENT
Classrooms are well furnished, all with adjoining resource areas providing access to extensive ICT facilities including interactive whiteboards within each classroom and additional accommodation for group and creative work. There is an excellent library with a computerised database and thumbprint identification which houses a comprehensive collection of books, videos and audio visual tapes. The large hall is used throughout the day for collective worship, PE, drama and music lessons as well as for dining.
The school is fortunate in having extensive grounds including playing fields, a nature garden, a tyre play park, a traversing wall, an outdoor classroom for learning, a football pitch and hard surface playground and car parks. An on-going programme of developments is planned to further enhance the outdoor learning environment.
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FOCUS FOR 2012-2013
This year, following careful self-evaluation, we shall endeavor to improve with targets of :-
- In Mathematics, we aim to improve standards with particular reference to mental arithmetic strategies and approaches to investigative maths
- Ensure that the quality of teaching is consistently good or better, enabling pupils to build continuously on their skills, year by year, as they move through the school.
- To raise the profile of the subject area - Art - improving teachers' specific skills in order to provide children with better guidance and outcomes.
PUPIL PREMIUM FUNDING
The Pupil Premium is funding in addition to the school's budget. Schools are free to decide how to allocate this funding to best support the raising of attainment for the most vulnerable pupils. In 2011/12 the school received £8170 in Pupil Premium allocations. In 2012/13 this will be £14,400
In 2011/12 the pupil premium was used in a variety of ways. These included:
• Additional TA support to deliver personalised intervention programmes
• A Learning Mentor for 1-1 tuition to deliver intervention programmes.
• Enabling pupils to participate in school residential holidays and educational trips
Impact in 2011/12 include:
• The impact of this support has been demonstrated in all groups of children throughout the school making good or better progress. The gap between attainment/progress of most vulnerable pupils/identified pupils and their peers has reduced
• High attendance has been sustained but also seen small improvement.
The school plans to continue with these strategies during 2012/13
PERFORMANCE
Information as to where you may access our school's performance is published on www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/index.html
We commend the Love Reading for Schools Scheme
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