Welcome to the Clerkenwell Parochial CE Primary School website! Sadly, on the 23rd of July 2021 Clerkenwell Parochial School closed its doors to primary children for the last time after 321 years of serving and educating young people in the area.
Going back from when the school first opened its doors in 1699 to our final days in July 2021, the school has seen, and lived through, extraordinary times. Sadly, with falling pupil numbers and more and more families moving out of the area, the school finally had to close.
This having passed, we remain strong in the hope that every Clerkenwell child goes on with faith, fond memories and to live life in all its fullness.
At CPS, our pupils enjoy a rich and carefully planned curriculum. We use a two-year cycle of engaging themes to structure the topics and units, which follow the National Curriculum in all subjects. In addition to the core curriculum, which ensures that pupils acquire essential skills in literacy and maths, we actively seek opportunities for pupils to learn from an extended curriculum, enriching and broadening their experience and helping them to become well-rounded, pupils who are knowledgeable and confident in a wide range of subjects and endeavours.
Located in the heart of Amwell Village, the children benefited from our amazing location by being able to enjoy a rich curriculum supported by all that our locality and central London had to offer. This, together with the excellent support of a highly talented and caring staff helped to make learning fun and relevant.
We were a very happy and inclusive school, with the Christian ethos at the very heart of all we did. In keeping with our school vision and context everyone was welcome and everyone was important and cherished. By browsing our site you will hopefully get an idea of how we supported our pupils to become lively, creative, independent, learners and thoughtful, caring young people.
We have always been proud of our children as you will see from our newsletters and gallery and our joy was in watching them thrive which they did with energy, enthusiasm and grace.
Our curriculum encourages a life-long love of learning. We believe that children learn best when they love what they learn, and so we plan exciting lessons that very often are cross-curricular in nature so that learning from one part of the curriculum supports learning from another part - children then see how different knowledge and skills relate to each other, and with greater understanding, comes greatly increased enjoyment.
Our curriculum will ensure that pupils make the most of their time at CPS in every possible sense - we are proud that the diocese has recognised our 'outstanding' support for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development in addition to the support we provide for the acquisition of more academic skills and knowledge.
We are proud of our curriculum and of the awards that we have received in the last few years in recognition of its success:
As well as a topic-based curriculum based on termly topics , we plan a variety of one-off special themed weeks that give pupils the chance to immerse themselves in the focus for the week. We also have a number of very popular annual events that always capture the imagination of the whole school community.
We have introduced both Philosophy for Children (P4C) and Growth Mindset thinking at CPS as we believe that is important that children can both express themselves articulately and confidently, and also understand how they learn best. These teaching methodologies are used in subjects across our curriculum and have proved very popular with the children.
We value the experiences that pupils can gain outside of the classroom and so all of our year groups go on half-termly educational visits - these broaden horizons and get everyone excited about their topics, often leading to a lot of enthusiastic and high quality writing about their experiences on the pupils' return.
Clerkenwell Parochial Church of England School has a long, proud and, in many ways, unique history. Established in 1699, it was one of the very first charity schools, at at time when there were only 19 such schools in London and Westminster, and when of course there were no state schools as there are now. The school was then in the parish of St James, and was originally founded by the parish church, was at one stage Parish Clerk at St James.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Queen Elizabeth II visited the school to help it celebrate its 300th birthday. In 2015, the school is now 316 years old and still going strong.
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