Sunnyhill Primary School

A very warm welcome to Sunnyhill Primary School! We are a two-form entry school with a nursery offering both full- and part-time places. We serve the heart of Streatham, offering an inclusive and broad education to all of our children. Sunnyhill is known for its strong community ethos and enjoys a very stable and experienced staff team, who know the locality and celebrate its diversity every day. We have extensive school grounds and links with community groups such as the Sunnyhill Nature Garden which we use to enhance learning.

We have a strong, coherent curriculum, which provides challenge and support to all groups of pupils. Each term, we follow a different theme which ties the curriculum subjects together; these themes are enriched with educational visits, visitors into school and a celebratory event involving parents/carers each term.

The school team have developed together creative ways of working and planning- by trying out new ideas we have had a positive effect on assessment and children’s learning. This creativity is backed up with a real sense of rigour. We have clear expectations of one another , we look for opportunites to work collaboratively as much as possible, developing child centred policies and clear procedures, closely monitoring lessons, planning and assessments, focusing on making sure that we know how best to support our pupils to make progress every year. We know we are moving in the right direction- we now have confident pupils who are happy at school and staff who have good morale and enjoy coming to work. Sunnyhill is a happy place to learn.

We have established core values that underpin everything we do, contributing to a greater sense of team work whilst remaining child centred. These core values were agreed as a school community. They highlight collectively important concepts that need to be worked at and focused on by all pupils, staff, parents and governors.

We are well on the way to meeting our goals and are clear about the way we need to move forward. We know that we have the capacity to improve and look forward to the bright future ahead- we know that in many instances we already demonstrate that our provision is outstanding- one of our aims is to be oustanding across the board within the next few years and are committed to work as hard as we can to achieve this.

We aim to develop our school so that it has consistency at its heart, that it is a creative and exciting place for our children and for the community, that we have high expectations of each other and that we hold each other to account.

• We are committed to educating in a holistic way, focusing on the social, moral, creative and artistic as well as the academic.
• We aim to give children opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills they will need for later in life.
• We strive to have high expectations of each other and of all our children encouraging them to always do their best.
• We are working hard to build a school community with positive relationships based upon clear values, respect and support.
• We are proud of the cultural diversity that makes up our community, seeing it as a strength, which we celebrate at every opportunity.
• We are helping children see the importance of taking responsibility for themselves, their actions and their learning.

We are ambitious for our children and for our school.Quality, Creativity, Consistency and collaboration is what we work towards – they are at the heart of everything we do.At Sunnyhill we aim to make learning appropriate, creative and fun- we plan creative learning journeys for our children, based on what we know they need to learn, what is relevant for them, the National Curriculum and their own ideas and interests. The process of planning a creative, quality rich learning experience is consistent throughout the school.

Our curriculum map, the National curriculum, and the skills ladders are used as signposts along the creative learning journey- we use them in a cross curricular way (so for instance, letter writing might be taught through a project all about The Romans). We look for connections wherever possible between subjects, projects and ideas to help children remember as much as possible.

Throughout their learning we look for opportunities for the pupils to review their own learning as well as reviewing what they have learnt themselves – these are like pit stops along the Creative Learning Journey to assess the progress the children have made against their starting points.