Building bright futures Life at Christ Church Primary School

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Contents

Welcome to our school 4 Teaching for lifelong learning 6 Our award-winning facilities 8 Our teachers 12 Children 14 Inclusion 16 Parents 18 After school adventures 20 Get in touch 22

Life at Christ Church Primary School | 3 Building bright futures Welcome to our school

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Christ Church Primary School. We are the village school on Brick Lane with an award winning adventure playground, an ethos of creative learning through play and a focus on achievement for all, regardless of starting point, with an emphasis on music, art and creativity.

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e have strong links with our community Win and Brick Lane and further afield and pride ourselves on being a friendly, caring and inclusive environment where children are happy to be at school. Our children are fully supported by dedicated staff who encourage them to have a positive attitude towards learning while challenging them to reach their full potential.

I warmly invite you to come along to one of our open mornings or phone the office and I would be delighted to show you around personally.

Julian Morant Headteacher

Life at Christ Church Primary School | 5 Building bright futures Teaching For lifelong learning

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At Christ Church Primary School we offer a stimulating curriculum and experiences that lead to life long learning. This allows children to really explore their interests to enrich and enhance their time here. We have high expectations for all our children and take individual children’s progress in learning in the broadest sense very seriously.

100% of parents would recommend this school to others.

Ofsted Parent View 2017

• Challenge and extend the more able – in partnership with Imperial College STEM students volunteer to teach maths at our school • Support the less able • Integrate IT into children’s learning • Forest school for all year groups with our own fully trained teacher • Enabling Enterprise scheme • Art projects at Broadgate in association with British Land • Music and choir in association with St. Paul’s Cathedral • Strong links with city companies facilitate day trips, work experience and enrichment • We visit the Planetarium, Science and Natural History Museums • Annually we host a Living Nativity carol service at in association with and the choir from Allen & Overy

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Our award-winning facilities

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Our brand new Early Years building designed by SCABAL Architects is home to the Nursery and Reception classes. Outdoors we have a dedicated ball park for football, cricket and tennis and our educational adventure-style playground incorporates tree trunks, a slide, monkey bars and climbing and won Most Adventurous Play Offer in a School in the London Play Awards 2015.

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Our adventure playground

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12 | Life at Christ Church Primary School Building bright futures Our teachers Dedicated to our children

As teachers in a school situated in the heart of Spitalfields we are afforded fantastic opportunities culturally, artistically and academically and we make full use of these throughout the range of our curriculum. We plan and use the resources of the city around us to maximum effect for the whole range of the curriculum areas. Children are regularly out exploring their environment in small groups and whole classes.

igh standards are vital for our children’s learning. We teach them to ask questions, Hbe proactive and evaluate their own learning. This helps foster their self-esteem and help them build positive relationships with others.

Through our shared vision and teamwork our staff are dedicated to:

• Creating a caring, warm and disciplined environment

• High expectations and achievement for all

• Regular assessments and professional support

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At Christ Church Primary School each class is made up of individuals who all see and experience the world around them in different ways.

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ll our children have different life experiences and aptitudes; they all Ahave their own strengths, gifts and talents. This is why our classrooms are vibrant, stimulating places to learn. We work hard to make them very safe places where children feel confident to make mistakes and understand that making mistakes leads to learning.

Children are encouraged to take pride in their work and the work of others. We help them to develop self-respect and respect the ideas, attitudes, values and feelings of others.

We offer teaching and learning experiences for everyone:

• Violin lessons, swimming, forest school, nature, gardening, residential school journeys and educational and fun day trips

• After school clubs: art, cricket, dance, hockey, homework, maths, table-tennis, choir, chess, film

• Themed weeks: art, maths, science, reading I really like coming to Christ • Visiting workshops in animation, Church School – everyone art, dance, drama, poetry, music is so kind and caring. • Award winning playground Year 6 pupil • School council

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We are a church school that celebrates all faiths in an area whose heritage has witnessed acceptance of a diverse community.

Andy Rider, Rector Christ Church

• Ensuring that all children have access to a broad, balanced, differentiated and relevant curriculum

• Encouraging our children to treat each other with respect

• Using school council, circle time, golden rules, role models, workshops on issues associated with discrimination, good work assemblies and special projects

• Early identification of pupils with Special Educational Needs, second language needs and the most able. This enables us to assess their needs, track their progress and put into place extra provision to enable them to succeed

The children look so happy when they go into school every morning in their colourful uniforms. It’s a joy to see!

A local resident of Brick Lane

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Many who attend our village school liken it to joining an extended family. Our parents and carers are an integral part of the school’s success and we have a very lively and active award-winning PTFA which all are warmly welcomed to join. We organise cookery classes, coffee mornings, free exercise and English language classes. Our parents run a social enterprise food stall at . We hold Christmas fairs and traditional summer fetes – celebrating our diverse community with strawberries and samosas.

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A strong and positive Every morning my child relationship between school gets up and wants to go to and home supports children’s learning and progress. school. She misses school during the holidays. We believe that children learn best from real experiences. Parent of a Year 1 child

Parents of all faiths celebrate their shared friendships that begin in the school and continue outside.

SIAMS inspection report June 2015

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At the end of the school day our children are collected from their classrooms. For those who wish to take advantage of them, we offer a wide variety of after school adventures and after school care.

Going to Christ Church taught me the importance of respect, tolerance and hard work.

Tanvir Rafe, reading Medicine at Balliol College, Oxford

Life at Christ Church Primary School | 21 Building bright futures Get in touch

Everyone at Christ Church Primary School is dedicated to helping each child and every member of the school community to reach their full potential.

Please come and see us, Connect with us online we look forward to meeting you

Christ Church Primary School, 47a Brick Lane, London E1 6PU Twitter Instagram Facebook 020 7247 0792

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