St Dunstan's Cheam CofE Primary School

We are a very successful and forward-looking school, seeking all the time to improve and progress. We are very proud to be a Church of England school and we value our strong links with both the Southwark Diocese and our parish church, St Dunstan’s Cheam. We aim to provide a happy, inclusive, secure and stimulating learning environment where Christian values are embraced by all, no matter what their faith background. Working together, we will nurture individuality, provide challenge, develop self-esteem and promote respect for each other, enabling the children to grow into confident, responsible and compassionate young people with high aspirations for the future.

Our School fosters a Christian ethos and provides a high quality of care and education for every member of the school community. Christian values are promoted through the whole curriculum. We aim to motivate everyone to engage fully in the broad range of educational opportunities provided to develop their potential.

We encourage all our children to achieve high standards and to grow as happy, confident, compassionate, independent young people who show respect for others, have a desire to learn and who are eager to make positive and caring contributions to the wider community, its people and environment.

The DfE have reinforced the need "to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs."

The Church has always taken a lead in education and in 1826 it founded, in Malden Road, a school to educate the children of the Parish of Cheam Village and Cuddington. In 1863, St Dunstan's Church started an infants' school in a cottage on the edge of Nonsuch Park, on the present Nonsuch High School site. In 1869 the infants moved to the Parochial Rooms in The Broadway. After a couple of years, while the boys transferred to a junior school, the older girls were retained with the infants, and the school became known as the Cheam and Cuddington Girls’ and Infants’ School. The Malden Road School became known as Cheam Junior Boys' School.

The girls and infants stayed in the Parochial Rooms until 1907 when they moved to a new building in Jubilee Road. In 1943 boys were allowed to stay on from the age of seven years to make it a mixed five to eleven primary school. The name St Dunstan's School was adopted in the 1950s.

The school was amalgamated with Cheam Junior Boys in 1989 and renamed St Dunstan's, Cheam, School. Construction of the new larger two-form entry building was started on the last day of October 1991. The foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of Southwark in the following February and the building was completed in November 1992. The building was occupied in January 1993.

St Dunstan's Church and friends of the school raised money for the stained glass window that has been installed in the Entrance Hall. The window shows Christ as Wisdom with Dunstan at His feet and is based on a mid 10th century drawing believed to be from the hand of Dunstan when he was Abbot of Glastonbury.

St Dunstan’s, Cheam, Church of England Primary School has a very strong Christian ethos which is at the heart of everything that we do and provides a high quality of care and education for every member of our school community. Christian values are promoted through the whole curriculum and we aim to motivate everyone to engage fully in the broad range of educational opportunities provided to develop their potential. We welcome applications from all members of the community. Many parents apply to this school because of its strong Christian ethos and we ask all parents to support our ethos and respect its importance to our school community.