Meadlands Primary School

Meadlands Primary School has been successfully educating children since 1952. Our children are expected to work hard and achieve their very best. They are taught by talented staff who are caring and friendly, and who have high expectations of children and themselves.

Our children are the key to the success of our school. We aim to ensure they are motivated by learning and offered the best opportunities that we can provide. We hope that they will be respectful and well behaved individuals, who develop high self-esteem and independence.

We value academic and personal success, and provide a range of additional support to ensure equality of opportunity. The development of literacy, numeracy and good work habits are given high priority at Meadlands. However, we are also committed to providing a rich, diverse curriculum: music and the arts set alongside our comprehensive extra-curricular programme are key elements of this.

Meadlands has a crucial part to play within the Ham and North Kingston community; we want to ensure that our children understand the part that they can play as citizens within it. Ofsted also commented on our “very strong links with parents” – crucial to the partnership that home and school must have to support each child's development.

We are a one form entry primary school set in the heart of the Ham community. We admit 30 children per year into our Reception class. As a community primary school we follow the London Borough of Richmond admissions policy and procedures. We also have a delightful Nursery, which admits children in either morning or afternoon fully funded places and also part funded full time places. Occasionally, Richmond Admissions can request that we go above our normal class size of 30.

We dream big and we never rest on our laurels or stop developing, improving and innovating our curriculum to ensure we are delivering the new skills and knowledge that our children will need in the future. We know our children extremely well. At Meadlands learning is personalised and develops the children’s strengths and interests, we break down barriers and difficulties that the children might come across along the way.

Our children make outstanding progress in their lessons. They are proud of themselves and of each other. The children, parents, staff, leaders and governors all strive for continuous improvement. Everyone is encouraged. Everyone is invited to contribute.Our school is a harmonious place to be, where dreaming is nurtured because our children know that with hard work and kindness, every dream is possible.

At Meadlands, the Full Governing Body comprises of 13 governors, including parents, teachers, volunteers from the local authority and the community. We are an energetic and ambitious group that work together to provide independent oversight of the management and operation of the school, with the aim of improving the quality of education provided and raising standards.

At Meadlands we work with other schools and providers in Achieving for Children and beyond.We have strong links with The Horse Rangers Association who are based in Hampton. A group of 10 children visit the Horse Rangers three times a year. This is a project linked to our ELSA work.The children learn the important values of the Horse Rangers Association, the importance of respect and kindness when looking after animals. They learn how to feed, muck out, groom the horses and the day culminates in an hour ride in Bushy Park.

At Meadlands we are committed to providing a unique curriculum filled with experiences that enthuse, engage and challenge our children. We have a rich programme of school trips to different places of interest and activities as well as visitors to our school. Our standards in English, Maths, Science and Computing are extremely high alongside this we value the Arts, Sport, Outdoor Learning, Citizenship and SMSC.Being a small school, we know the children well; we seek out and nurture their talents and interests.Pupils are encouraged to be active members of our school by taking on significant roles such as becoming members of the Junior Leadership Team, Class Ambassadors or Peer Mediator.We take time and care to build every individuals self-esteem and confidence through personalised ELSA Support, Forest Schools and we are an official LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) examinations centre- with our pupils achieving 100% in LAMDA introductory exams with distinctions.

During assemblies the children have the chance to learn about different religious traditions and celebrations, they deepen their understanding of healthy living, mark British cultural traditions and celebrate everything which is great about Meadlands! We also hold yearly class assemblies, Christmas performances, Easter, Harvest and Mothering Sunday assemblies. We welcome visitors into the school to lead assemblies. Recently our guest speakers have been from Ham Youth Centre presenting the importance of E-Safety, the local police force, representatives from RUILS disability awareness and Merlin the dog from the Pets As Therapy group.