Globe Primary School

Globe School is an outstanding school with wonderful, fun loving, inquisitive and happy children who behave well and always try their best. Our staff are great too! They are hardworking, committed and have caring, positive and professional relationships with our children and parents. Our parents are a delight to work with, always keen to support our children.

We want Globe to be a community of happy, confident, motivated children who love learning. We want our children to be successful citizens who believe in and value themselves and each other. We want our children to believe in and stand up for equality in all aspects of life. Therefore, we are continually striving to ensure that we nurture, challenge and enable each and every one to be the very best they can be in all areas of school life.

Globe Primary School was built in 1874 and has a long established tradition of providing education for the Bethnal Green community. Our school is a community primary school in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and serves a varied and diverse community from many cultural backgrounds. Boys and girls attend our school from the age of three, when they start nursery, to the age of eleven after which they transfer to a secondary school.

Our school has an additionally resourced provision for children with special educational needs. There are thirty places for children who need additional support in their speech, language and communication development. These places are allocated by the Local Authority.

The school environment consists of a large three story refurbished Victorian building within a walled playground. We have a continuing programme of improvement to keep the premises attractive, safe, comfortable and stimulating for everyone.

We also have an extremely well equipped Computer Room which houses 33 touch screen computers in which classes are taught weekly computing lessons. In addition to this we have class sets of laptops, learn pads and iPads which are brought into classrooms for use. We try to stay on top of the latest computing developments. The children are loving using our iPods at the moment.

For short we call it the ‘Language Provision’ and is a specialist provision within our mainstream primary school. It is for children who have a statement of special educational needs for difficulties specifically related to understanding and/or using spoken language. Children attend full-time and get extra help, including speech and language therapy.

We have high expectations of all our children and encourage them to have high expectations of themselves. We want them to be confident in their ability to make progress and happy to have-a-go without worrying about making mistakes or ‘getting things wrong’.

We are an inclusive school and as a staff, we work hard to provide high quality teaching for all and to help children to make progress in all that they do. We encourage them to keep up their efforts, to recognise and celebrate their successes and to stay optimistic when things don’t go according to plan, knowing that there is someone at hand to encourage and support them.

We know that this is especially important for children with special educational needs and disabilities and we will strive to find ways to overcome anything that gets in the way of their learning, so that they experience a sense of success and share this with their families.

Our provision takes into account every aspect of a child’s development. The Curriculum gives the children the opportunity to achieve the highest possible standards of numeracy and literacy. To enable children to develop socially, morally, physically, emotionally and spiritually we provide stimulating learning environments in which children are encouraged to learn through their own experiences and apply their knowledge independently. Within this framework of a broad and balanced curriculum the individual needs of each child are met through well planned and varied learning activities, including visits and specialist tuition.