Hague Primary School

Hague School is a small, friendly primary school in London’s East End. We have 220 boys and girls aged 3 to 11 with one class for each age group from Nursery to Year 6. Our size enables us to treat each pupil as an individual, of whom we have the highest expectations. Pupils regularly tell us they enjoy learning and coming to school.

Hague is a successful one-form entry primary school, with a Deaf Provision for up to 16 pupils from 3-11 years. It serves a multicultural community in Bethnal Green, the heart of London’s East End. Pupils are at the heart of everything we do. We want everyone to enjoy learning, so every effort is made to ensure that the curriculum is relevant to our pupils and inspires them. Visitors to Hague often tell us how happy, hard-working and well behaved pupils are. We are very proud of them. They all make good and outstanding rates of progress as a result of great teaching and support for learning. We challenge pupils to achieve their best, develop, knowledge, skills and attitudes which will help them to become successful learners and develop long and lasting friendships.

At Hague School the mission is to ‘enjoy learning and achieve great things for yourself and for others’. Every day at Hague School, staff and governors are working to ensure that by the time pupils leave Hague they will:

• Have learned how to make friends and get along well with people.
• Have developed a range of skills to communicate their needs and ideas effectively.
• Feel proud of their achievements and found their artistic, scientific, musical or sporting talents.
• Know how to have a go, try new things, problem solve, reason and learn from mistakes.
• Understand that they have ‘rights and responsibilities’ to learn, to be safe and to take responsibility for their words and actions.
• Have done things for others locally and globally which make a small but real difference which they can feel proud of.

Through commitment to our vision, aims and values staff and governors aim to support and challenge our pupils to achieve their potential. Adults have a responsibility to ensure pupils maximise their future life chances and those of others through Hague’s commitment to; rights respecting behaviour, an inspirational curriculum which secures and develops literacy and numeracy skills, teamed with promoting pupils’ understanding of the school values; responsibility, communication, collaboration, creativity and achievement. We want children, families and staff to feel valued, safe and able to make choices that will contribute to a healthy lifestyle.

By supporting the vision and school improvement plan, everyone works towards becoming even better leaders, managers, teachers, learners so that Hague secures and celebrates improvements for all.

The core purpose, vision and aims are reviewed annually at Whole School Conference by staff and Governors. Pupils review the aims and values in lessons and assemblies. Hague School staff and Governors aim to work in partnership with parents, the local authority, educational support agencies and relevant others to achieve these aims.

If a child has a special need or disability they will be treated no less favourably than other children. We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure that pupils are not placed at a substantial disadvantage. Our Accessibility Plan describes the arrangements we have already made to accommodate those with additional needs and identifies further proposals planned to improve the physical access to the school and to written information. All classrooms are particularly well adapted to the needs of deaf and partially hearing children.

If your child has additional learning needs or a disability it is helpful to fully inform the school of the exact nature so that we can plan to effectively meet the needs of the child allowing them to access the curriculum and life of the school. Our aim is for all children to have access to all aspects of school life as far as reasonable and practicable.

Hague has a stimulating and interesting topic based curriculum which focuses on developing creative lessons based on pupil inquiry about their learning. We value, ‘experiential learning’ which promotes learning from first hand, practical experiences. We believe this supports the learning of all children and is complimented through off-site educational visits, handling artefacts and inviting ‘specialists’ in to school. Creativity is a way of meeting the learning objectives through imaginative, purposeful and original tasks using the arts and ICT to research and communicate learning. We aim for the work to be progressive throughout the school, and be challenging to all.