Featherstone Primary and Nursery School

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A warm welcome to Featherstone Primary School – an inclusive, multi-cultural school with over 700 pupils. The school has three forms of entry and a 100-place Nursery. Attached to our Nursery is a specialist speech and language base for children who have specific speech, language, and communication needs. Our dedicated and talented team of staff works hard to ensure that the children learn, make good progress, and are happy and safe. Pupils are well-behaved and enjoy coming to school.
Situated in Southall and housed in a modern building, we have excellent facilities including large well-equipped classrooms, a library, ICT suites, and an extensive outdoor area including a large playing field and newly-installed playground equipment. When all the current grounds improvement work has been completed, the Nursery and Reception outdoor areas will be even more exciting and engaging areas for our youngest pupils to learn and play.
All members of our community are valued and the school is well-supported by both our parents and our governors. We are a listening school and welcome the views and contributions of all members of our community. Working together, we will help the school go from strength to strength.
These are our aims for pupils when they leave our school and move into adulthood:
Pupils at Featherstone Primary and Nursery School will be able to communicate and respond to others with confidence and good manners. They will be literate, numerate, and knowledgeable. Pupils will be curious, able to think with increasing independence, and able to express themselves through the creative arts and appreciate the creativity of others. Pupils will appreciate the beauty of the world around them and be able to care for our environment. They will have respect for their heritage and faith and understand and respect the culture and faith of others. Pupils will understand the reasoning behind rules and understand how to resolve problems. They will be able to collaborate positively with others, develop leadership skills and contribute to the community. Pupils will know how to manage their safety, health, and well-being and how to promote this in others with empathy and understanding. Pupils will know how to learn, be motivated to learn, and know when and how to ask for help. They will be ambitious for their future, industrious and tenacious.
The school offers the full Early Years Foundation Curriculum and National Curriculum subjects and sets high standards for the pupils to achieve. Support is given to children who speak English as an additional language and to those who have special educational needs. In addition to class teachers, there is a team of teachers and teaching assistants working to support pupils.
Teaching approaches vary according to the age of the pupils. An integrated topic approach is used with the children in Foundation Stage, while the curriculum of the Upper Key Stage 2 is more frequently divided into subjects as part of the preparation for secondary education. Pupils in year 3 and year 4 are in a transition phase where both approaches are commonly used. Work throughout the school is differentiated to take account of the ability levels of the children. From Year 4 onwards children are grouped according to ability (setting) for some of their work.
Children learn to use ICT (computers) in specific ICT lessons and use ICT skills in other curriculum areas. We plan activities and outings to encourage children to be excited about learning and about the topic they are learning. Children may go to visit a place of interest or a visitor may come to the school to develop pupils’ knowledge about aspects of the curriculum. These visitors may be a theatre group, a visiting author, or a sports specialist.

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