East Acton Primary School

We are a small and vibrant primary school in West London. Our close knit family community of staff, parents and governors aims to ensure that all children are safe, achieve well and are happy and healthy. We provide a broad and balanced curriculum which inspires a love of learning and targets individual needs.

At East Acton Primary School we want every child to achieve their highest potential. We believe all children should acquire the skills to become independent, life-long learners. Within a safe and happy environment, we encourage children to become confident, reflective and resilient individuals who aim high, persevere and achieve well. With the support of parents, carers and the local community, we encourage children to be positive citizens who show respect and take pride in all they do.

Our "values tree" is re-visited with staff and students each Friday in our weekly Golden Assemblies. One child from each class is selected for the way in which they have consistently demonstrated one of our core values as shown on the branches of our "values tree". They then add a Golden Leaf to the appropriate branch on the tree showing their name and what they have done to demonstrate our school's vision and values.

The National Curriculum covers KS1 and KS2 and builds on the work of the Foundation Stage Framework.

• There are 10 subjects in the national curriculum, English, Maths and Science are core subjects.
• ICT is used to support all areas of the curriculum.
• History, Geography, Design Technology, Art, Music and P.E (Physical Education) are the foundation subjects.
• R.E (Religious Education) covers the study of the worlds major religions.
• Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship are also included.
• French is taught from Year 3 onwards.

Children in the Early Years follow the Foundation Stage Curriculum. This is based on seven key areas of learning:

• Communication and language development involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves; and to speak and listen in a range of situations.
• Physical development involves providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity, and to make healthy choices in relation to food.
• Personal, social and emotional development involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour in groups; and to have confidence in their own abilities.
• Literacy development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write.Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems, and other written materials) to ignite their interest.
• Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.
• Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.
• Expressive arts and design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.

Children in KS1 and KS2 follow the National Curriculum. We plan half termly topics and look for cross-curricular links where possible. English and mathematics are taught each day. Children in Year 1 and those in Year 2 who do not yet know their letter sounds follow a phonics scheme, Read, Write, Inc. French is taught weekly as a modern foreign language at KS2 and children are taught to swim in Year 5, visiting Acton swimming baths. Years 4 and 5 are currently having whole class ukulele tuition.

We have many extra curricular activities which vary from term to term but currently include jewellery, football, ballet, drama, photography and baking. All year groups from nursery upwards have the chance to attend an after school club. Termly topic overviews are displayed outside classrooms and on the class pages of this website. They are changed each term.