Carpenters Primary School

As a school, we want this experience to be enjoyable for your child but also for you as parents/carers. We aim to give them a curriculum that is broad, balanced, creative and fun. We want them to enjoy coming to school and achieve well throughout their time at Carpenters, both academically and personally. It is important that we work in partnership to ensure that your child has the best opportunity at all times. We hope that you don’t, but should you have any concerns, at any time, please see myself, a member of my Senior Leadership Team or any member of staff, who will listen to your concern and endeavour to deal with it quickly and effectively. As our strap line says “Together We Succeed”.

At Carpenters Primary School we aim to

• Meet the individual needs of every child within the school.
• Help each child to develop to their full potential and ensure they have equal access to the curriculum.
• Support children not only in terms of academic achievement but also in their social, moral, spiritual and physical development.
• Provide a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum which is differentiated to meet a variety of needs and learning styles.
• Promote equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, class or ability.
• Work in partnership with children, parents and carers, link schools, support services and the wider community to support personal development, resilience and life-long learning.
• Create a warm and friendly environment in which everyone feels safe, secure, valued, happy and able to achieve.
• Celebrate our children’s achievements with others in a positive and supportive manner.
• Nurture our children on their journey through life so they can grow into safe, caring, democratic, responsible and tolerant adults who make a positive difference to British society and to the world.
• Encourage our children to be creative, unique, open-minded and independent individuals, respectful of themselves and of others in our school, our local community and the wider world.

We provide a broad and balanced curriculum, which develops the ability of the individual child according to their age and ability. The school has implemented the New National Curriculum and has a Curriculum Map to ensure that all children cover the requirements during their time with us.

Teachers use a wide variety of teaching methods and adapt their teaching according to the subject, age and ability of the children. We place a great emphasis on giving children hands-on experiences in learning, as we believe that it is only by actually doing something that true understanding of a specific area and its relevance to real-life can be gained. A huge emphasis is placed on ensuring all children are able to Read, Write and understand a variety of mathematical and scientific concepts. We also focus on the foundation subjects such as; history, geography, art and music etc, as part of a ‘topic’ curriculum which changes each half term to ensure children learn and develop the skills, knowledge and understanding required by the end of each academic year.

We believe that it is the fundamental right of all children to have access to the best education possible. The school follows the Local Authority guidelines for inclusive education and all teachers are teachers of special educational needs. The class teacher, along with the SENCo (Special Educational Needs Coordinator) and teaching assistant will ensure that each child’s individual needs are catered for and met. It is very important that all parents/carers are involved throughout each stage and are kept informed of how well their child is doing and how you can support them at home.

Educational visits connected with curriculum work are organised to provide firsthand experiences for our children. A visit is planned at least once every term to support their learning. On some occasions, there are opportunities for parents/carers to accompany their child’s class on a visit.