Torridon Junior School

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Torridon Juniors is very much a community school. We are inclusive and popular and our children tell us that they are happy, valued, and feel safe. At Torridon, we know that a close partnership with parents and carers is vital if children are to learn and grow as individuals. We, therefore, strive to do all we can to keep parents and carers informed and involved in school life.

Our skills-based curriculum enables the children to develop positive attitudes and values that encourage self-motivation and an enthuses approach to learning. Creativity, sport, and the arts all play a key role in making school an enjoyable place to be.

Torridon Junior School will provide a caring and creative learning environment in which all the children make outstanding progress both emotionally and academically. All members of the school community will feel valued and will strive to ensure that all pupils achieve their full potential. Children at Torridon will learn the skills and attitudes that enable them to lead successful and happy lives as confident life-long learners who make a positive contribution to society. Within our school, we also have five core values that permeate everything that we do.

• R – Respect
• E – Excellence
• A – Ambition
• C – Commitment
• H – Honesty

These values are an integral part of the school and have helped to create the wonderful school that we have today. We continue to build on our successes and have set challenging targets again this year to improve further the quality of our children’s experiences and the opportunities available to them.

Torridon Junior School is a popular three-form entry school situated in Catford, which is part of the London borough of Lewisham. Working alongside the families and our neighboring Infant School, we strive to achieve the best for the children in our vibrant community. Our children, aged between 7 and 11 years of age, bring a wonderful amount of diversity to our school and we positively celebrate this.

We are proud of the many achievements of our school – the provision for the personal development of children and the wide range of activities we offer. We encourage parents and carers to play an active role in their child’s education and we work as partners in the children’s learning journeys.

Since September 2013 our roll has increased to 390 as we accepted our first bulge class into the school currently we have a bulge class in Year 3, taking the cohort to 120 children. In 2013 we also welcomed the first intake of pupils into our ASD Resource Base ‘Torridon Lighthouse’.This facility is shared (in part) with the Infant School and provides several children with a unit, within the school, that offers help and support for children with an EHCP where the main need is Autism. Our staff has extensive knowledge and training on autism and inclusion.

The vision of our ‘Lighthouse’ is that all the children feel included and accepted, which will empower them to participate and make progress alongside their peers. We encourage our students to be as big a part of the mainstream school as possible and want the provision to be an emotionally secure place for our students at times where they may find aspects of mainstream school demanding.

The school has recently undergone some significant changes in staffing and leadership but the newly appointed leadership team, alongside the governors, are committed to achieving the best outcomes for the children of Torridon Junior School working together to improve standards. We are in the process of updating our website and ask that you contact us if you are unable to locate some information. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

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