East Hunsbury Primary School Prospectus 2021/2022 Penvale Road East Hunsbury Northampton NN4 0QW Telephone: 01604 677970 e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.easthunsburyprimary.org.uk Headteacher : Mrs R M Arundel One School. One Community. Learning and Growing Together. A welcome from the Head teacher… We are delighted that you are thinking of choosing us as your child’s school. East Hunsbury Primary (EHPS) is a family-orientated school that is not only inclusive and welcoming for all of our families but we are a school with the highest of standards and expectations. We put children at the heart of everything we do and every decision we make because we know just how much a child - your child - can achieve and understand that it is our job to ensure that they do. At EHPS, we are committed to inclusion, excellence and enjoyment and believe all children can learn through laugher and by being exposed to an exciting, diverse range of opportunities. Our curriculum, organisation, decision marking and ethos are all founded on our 6 core beliefs which are: INCLUSION - Our school should be an inclusive community where pupils are offered opportunities to grow together, learn together, laugh together and celebrate together. Through accepting, understanding and attending to differences and diversity, all pupils should feel welcome, enabled, appropriately challenged and supported. COMMUNITY - Our school should be a stimulating and welcoming community in which all children and adults feel valued, able to contribute and where relationships are based on mutual respect. ACTIVE LEARNERS - Children should be active participants in the learning process and be provided with experiences that maximise their involvement, autonomy and independence. LOVE OF LEARNING - We should equip our children with the skills they need to be happy and successful in life, nurturing in them a true and lifelong love of learning. WHOLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT - We are responsible for the development of the whole child. We recognise differing needs and endeavour to meet these needs, maximising the opportunities for children to explore their physical, social, emotional and intellectual potential. EMBRACE DIVERSTY - We should be a community that respects and celebrates diversity. Why choose us? Well your child already matters to us. Their happiness, their friends, their education and their future, matters. We would be honoured for your family to join ours and for us to be a part of your child’s educational adventure and walk this part of their life journey with you. This prospectus is designed to give you a flavour into life at East Hunsbury Primary school but please book a tour (if you haven’t already) and come and see us in person or visit our website www.easthunsburyprimary.org.uk or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/EastHunsburyPrimarySchool/ , where you can find even more information. Finally, we operate an open-door policy, so if you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be more than happy to answer them. With the warmest regards, Mrs Rita Arundel Who are we? We are a family orientated, community-driven, two-form entry Primary school, with an amazing 47-place Specialist Unit, that is nestled within the heart of East Hunsbury. Since 2017, East Hunsbury Primary School has been part of NPAT, which stands for Northampton Primary Academy Trust. NPAT has 12 schools in total as part of their MAT (Multi Academy Trust) and has responsibility for over 3500 children across Northamptonshire. NPAT is driven by a vision of innovation, high aspiration and achievement and a commitment to sports and the arts. Their motto is: Achieving Extraordinary Things, which is something, as a school, we believe wholeheartedly in. Being a part of NPAT is very exciting as it opens up a world of opportunity and collaboration for our children and staff. We regularly take part in sporting and arts events as well as having expert training with the sole aim of improving children’s learning experiences. East Hunsbury is a school that values outdoor learning, has an ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum and understands the importance of the arts and sports. We know that when children are happy, learning becomes easier that is why children’s social, emotional and mental health is very important to us. Consequently, we have a highly effective wellbeing and nurture team made up of expert professionals including a Family Support Worker, Behaviour Support Lead, Special Educational Needs Coordinator and members of the Senior Leadership Team. We are here to help the whole family. Did you know: East Hunsbury Primary School is involved in many international projects such as: o Teaching Emotional Literacy – Spain, Croatia, Romania and Italy. o Special Needs Education – Iceland. o Teaching Science Outside the Classroom – Spain, Croatia, Sweden and the University of Northampton. We have an outdoor science classroom We teach Forest Schools, have our own wildlife centre and a trim trail. We have been awarded prestigious awards such as: o Inclusion Quality Mark Flagship Award o Eco Award o Healthy Schools Award o Gold Artsmark Award o International School Award Every year, we take part in the National Gallery Take One Picture competition. Every year, we work with the Royal Shakespeare company to put on a school production. We regularly have visits from artists, authors and members of the community to enrich our learning experiences. All children get the opportunity to learn an instrument as part of our Northamptonshire’s First Access to Music Project. We offer a range of instrumental lessons from violin through to keyboard. We have music, PE and dance specialists that come in every week to work with our children. Our educational outcomes are very high! Our School Day In our mainstream classes, gates open at 08:30am and lessons start at 9.00am. Teachers set morning work and settling activities for the children as they arrive. Classes finish between 3:20pm and 3:30pm. Children in our Specialist Unit currently start between 8.35am and 8.55am and finish between 3.20pm and 3.40pm (depending on age). We will always make sure you know the start and end times for your child before they start with us. What if I need before and after school child-care? We know that having high-quality before and after school care is very important to many of our families. As such, we are aligned with an outstanding wrap-around care provider, Kids Club, and more information about this service can be found here: https://www.easthunsburyprimary.org.uk/index.php/for- parents/ehps-kids-club We also have a few childminders who collect and drop off at East Hunsbury, please ask the office if you need any further information about this. What happens at lunch? All children have an hour’s lunch break. Children in the reception and Key Stage 1 are entitled to free school meals (which means that they can have a hot dinner if you choose that for them free of charge) and children in Key Stage 2 can choose to pay for a hot dinner if they would like. All children can bring a healthy packed lunch if you wish. We have our own kitchen at East Hunsbury and lunches are currently prepared and cooked by Dolce Schools Catering. We are a nut free school. Lunchtimes are supported by our amazing Playleaders, who are children who help organise activities. Peacemakers, whose aim is to avoid, resolve and negotiate friendship difficulties in the playground and also Rhino and Pacesetter Sports Coaches who organise lots of sporting fun! What is the behaviour like at EHPS? Children at EHPS behave well and we expect our children to always be: ready, respectful and safe. When you visit we hope that you will see them walking smartly around school and upholding impeccable manners. We also have 3 Golden Rules which have been created with our pupils and are linked to our school logo: My school - We take care of our school and our things. Keep our cloakroom tidy & Safe Look after our classroom and our equipment Use all school areas sensibly My friends - We are kind, considerate and listen to each other. Take turns and listen to each other Use kind hands, feet and words Walk sensibly & hold doors open for other people My future - We try our best in everything we do. Ask for help when you find something difficult Listen to all adults in school and follow instructions Believe that YOU CAN DO IT – and KEEP TRYING! Teachers at EHPS are firm, friendly and fair and make sure that behaviour never stops anyone from learning. Our curriculum We are proud to have a knowledge-rich, skill developing, exciting curriculum. It is a curriculum for all and we intend our children to be secondary ready when the time comes. For reading, we use Sounds-Write to teach our phonics and Talk for Reading to teach children to comprehend. For writing, we use an approach called Talk for Writing and in handwriting we use kinetic letters. Maths is taught following the Maths Mastery approach Our wider curriculum (History, Art, Science, Geography and RE) has been written by a team of highly skilled practitioners across NPAT. For PE we use REAL PE which is a scheme based on children learning fundamental movement patterns which they can transfer to a range of sports. In PSHCE we use a fantastic scheme called Jigsaw but we also complement this with our very own SMILE curriculum which was developed by our teachers who took part in an international project based in Bologna. SMILE teaches children all about Emotional Literacy. In Key Stage 2 children will learn French.