Mayflower Primary School

Mayflower School is named after The Mayflower Ship, famous for taking early pioneers to America. That pioneering spirit is an inspiration for us at Mayflower School as we strive for excellence in learning. We want all our pupils to be successful and we are constantly searching for new and innovative ways to make learning exciting, so that everyone at Mayflower enjoys the sense of adventure learning brings and discovers how learning changes lives.

Our guiding principles are

• Keep children at the centre of all we do.
• Have high expectations of ourselves and all our learners.
• Recognise the contribution that everyone can make to children’s learning.
• Encourage everyone to be a problem solver with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Build self confidence by supporting risk taking.
• Provide challenging active learning that gives choice and independence.
• Ensure our school is an inclusive, stimulating environment that reflects and celebrates our creative learning.
• Make use of our location so that pupils experience and feel part of London.
• Enable our pupils to understand they are citizens of a wider global community.

We know how important it is to work in partnership with parents. Working together we can ensure your child has excellent learning behaviour and manners. We have a reputation for being a very friendly school. By joining us you will also be part of creating that friendly atmosphere at our school. Parents and carers can arrange to meet with Teachers and Teaching Assistants at any time throughout the year. We have more formal meetings for parents at different points during the school year.

We have 355 pupils on roll. Our school is well staffed with talented and committed staff.Each class has a full-time Teaching Assistant. At Mayflower we take seriously our responsibility to prepare children for life as active participants in modern British society. British Values are actively shared and promoted amongst children across the school and opinions and behaviours contrary to these values are consistently challenged. In particular PATHS, P4C and RE lessons provide children with opportunities to deepen and develop their understanding of British Values. As part of our Mayflower Citizens project, children are enabled to engage with and learn about people from different backgrounds and contribute to their local and wider communities.

Children are encouraged to make positive choices in their learning and behaviour in a safe and supportive environment. Through PATHS lessons we develop self knowledge, self esteem and self confidence, learning about understanding and regulating our feelings and behaviours.Our behaviour policy supports children to accept responsibility for their own actions. Children are supported to make a positive contribution to our local and global communities through trips and links with other schools. As part of our Mayflower Citizens project, each class will take part in a volunteering project to contribute to our local area. Whole school themed weeks, assemblies and charity events raise awareness of the difference we can make in the world, supporting national and local charities.

Our school’s vision runs through our curriculum. We strive for excellence in learning and want all our pupils to be successful learners. We are constantly searching for new and innovated ways to make learning more exciting. We want everyone at Mayflower to enjoy the sense of adventure learning brings and to discover how learning changes lives.

We have high expectations of ourselves and all our learners. We encourage pupils and staff to be problem solvers with a ‘can do’ attitude. We make use of our city so that pupils experience and feel part of London. We enable our pupils to understand they are citizens of a wider global community. We make sure our school is an inclusive, stimulating environment that reflects and celebrates our creative learning.

Our curriculum is Literacy rich and designed to give our pupils local and global knowledge within a board and balanced curriculum. Our topics are based around excellent books, storytelling and visits. This helps put children’s learning in context and also brings learning alive. We want pupils to be talking about their learning and asking questions which shape the learning in their class. We want pupils to persevere, and reflect on learning, to go back and improve their work.

We offer a wide range of learning opportunities beyond the school day which change each half term. We have before school, lunchtime and after school clubs which include art, music, drama, dance, sports, booster classes, computer, reading and modern foreign languages. Pupils choose the area of learning which appeals to them and learn something new for half term. These experiences give pupils new interests and help them to lead healthier lives. Current clubs include: touch typing for KS1 and 2, drumming, wrestling, Bengali and Spanish, Art, ballet, football, table tennis and science.