Sandringham Primary School

Sandringham Primary School is an exciting school to be a part of and whenever you visit us, you'll find us busy with something compelling.

It's really important to us that our children not only do well in their reading, their writing and their maths but are successful across the curriculum and beyond. Working alongside our dedicated classroom staff we have a team of specialist teachers who provide a breadth and depth to our curriculum that gives all of our children a rich and varied experience of school with opportunities to excel, particularly in performing arts and sport.

As well as the exceptionally wide range of opportunities we offer our children, we are also passionate about making our children better learners; using technology to enhance learning; giving our children the confidence and skills to present themselves; and helping them to understand their rights and responsibilities.

At Sandringham we are proud to be a large, multicultural primary school in Britain's capital city, London. We actively promote and acknowledge British values throughout the whole of our curriculum and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. We want our children to be reflective, tolerant, active and successful British citizens.

As a school we also understand that we have the responsibility to challenge threats to our British Values as a result of the promotion of extremist views and radicalisation and will deal with any such issues as per our safeguarding policy.

At Sandringham, we teach using a skills-based, cross curricular approach. Cross curricular means we make links between different subject areas e.g. History, Art, Geography and English by teaching them together under a theme such as ‘Explorers’ or 'Africa'. Each term or half term, sees a new topic introduced within each year group. Our topics are designed to reflect the needs and interests of our pupils, and the community in which we live. Topics are developed alongside the children who play an active role in deciding what they would like to learn. Our pupil’s opinions matter to us. Each term, the pupils are interviewed about their curriculum and their comments and ideas are used to inform future planning.

We strive to ensure our topics are vibrant, engaging and relevant. Each topic ends with an event or project which gives a real life context to the children’s learning. This event or project is an opportunity for the children to use and apply the skills and knowledge they have gained throughout the topic. Sometimes this real-life context is a performance, assembly or exhibition organised for parents, alternatively it may be a community/charity project or collaborative creation e.g. a film, website or work of art – the sky is the limit!

At Sandringham Primary School, we are committed to achieving the highest possible standards of teaching and learning. Our dedicated staff share a clear vision and ethos for learning which put skills, mindset and attributes at the core.

We believe in a whole education and developing children’s skills and attributes in addition to their knowledge. We dedicate time to helping the children explore how to learn effectively and be successful in life, through developing our 8 school attributes.

Learning at Sandringham is exciting, vibrant and challenging. We encourage children to have a growth mindset believing that everyone has the capacity to become smarter through hard work. We encourage children to challenge themselves, take risks and persevere in the face of difficulties. By developing these characteristics children achieve high academic standards whilst also becoming well rounded and successful individuals who are equipped for the future.

We believe that school should be a place of fun, discovery, curiosity and imagination. Our teaching invites children to ask questions, experiment and explore. We encourage children to be independent learners, thinkers and innovators.

Children at Sandringham are continually reflecting on their own learning to help them adapt and improve, we know that this is far more powerful than teachers telling them what to do and how to do it. At Sandringham, children even participate in writing their own reports and marking their own work, although Teachers also provide feedback and guidance of course!

The school is committed to the continuous development of staff to ensure that we learn, grow and improve alongside the children. As a result, we are always exploring the latest research and developments in education to inform our professional practice.