Elmhurst Primary School

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We are a large outstanding primary school in Newham. We care passionately about our children’s education and go the extra mile to help every child reach their full potential. This is reflected in our high SATs exam results.
Our staff is highly committed to teaching stimulating and engaging lessons, concentrating on making sure that children acquire all basic skills, as well as stretching every child with our rich curriculum.
We take groups of children every year to Rome or Amsterdam on art residential visits. Our children perform Shakespeare’s plays in local theatres. We train all our children in debating skills and have great success in regular regional competitions. We pride ourselves in our specialist sport and music provision. Our school environment is very smart with a large number of challenging climbing structures.
We teach our children good manners and encourage them to contribute to society by taking part in charity fundraising.
We provide a variety of after-school classes and clubs. We also have free one-to-one tutoring after school or on Saturday mornings for any child that needs it, to make sure that no child slips through the net.
At Elmhurst, we believe that everyone should be treated equally and accepted openly. Staff and Governors work towards ensuring that all aspects of school life are "fair" and "safe" for children, staff, parents/carers, and the wider community.
At Elmhurst, we have drawn upon the passion and expertise of our staff. Our wider curriculum is rich, diverse, and challenging. 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.
At Elmhurst, we think it very important that our pupils develop a strong set of values and principles, and that they question and understand what it means to grow up in British society. Through a rich and challenging humanities curriculum, and through a focus on key events in British history - such as the creation of the Magna Carta which is celebrating its eight-hundredth anniversary this year - we invite pupils to reflect upon their role in a diverse, multicultural and multi-faith society.
We inculcate a deeply embedded appreciation of the values of fairness and democracy through our humanities curriculum as well as through our use of a 'mandated' model of a school council, in which children seeking to be elected as class representatives participate in hustings and voting processes.
Our geography curriculum casts light on global citizenship and the rule of law, including the role of democratic advocacy for change.
Our school is enriched by the faith of our school community, and we teach an inclusive and all-embracing Religious Education curriculum that teaches pupils about the beliefs and practices of all major religious groups, and indeed the shared values that religion can promote in synchrony with core British values.
As a school that serves a richly diverse community, we take our responsibility to promote community cohesion, generate respect for difference and individual rights seriously. Our challenging curriculum enables pupils to recognize the valuable role that they play as emerging citizens in British society.

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