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Northwold is a large, mixed community school that provides an exciting, supportive and challenging environment that enables all children to reach their highest levels of achievement in all aspects of their school lives. Northwold Primary School is in the Hackney Local Education Authority and we are housed in a four-story late-Victorian listed building – which has been a school for over 104 years. Although the Headteacher manages the school from day to day, it is the governors, as a corporate body, who are legally responsible for the school. We are accountable to parents, the local community, and the local education authority for the performance of the school. The governors are all volunteers and we are not paid for our work. At Northwold a healthy lifestyle and well-being are core components for the values and ethos of the school. We recognize the importance of having a broad and balance PE curriculum and extra-curricular program in improving pupils’ attitude, attainment, and achievement at the highest level. The Sports Funding will enable us to continue and extend our provision for children to developing a healthy lifestyle. Northwold Primary School is a large school for pupils aged 3-11, located near Hackney. Our Academy is part of the AmayaTrust and caters to over 470 pupils. We are a vibrant and inclusive community, and our skilled and dedicated staff work hard to provide a wide range of educational experiences for the children in a safe and stimulating environment. Amaya Trust is the overall admissions authority for the Academy with decision-making delegated to the Academy’s Governing Body. Admission Appeal Code. An Independent Appeals Panel hears any appeals from parents whose child has not been allocated a place at Northwold Primary School, and who appeals by the procedure specified by the Local Authority. The Academy has an admission number of 60 pupils in all year groups and 50 full-time equivalent places will be available in our nursery. Places in the nursery school may be full-time or organized on a part-time basis (morning and afternoons). Details will be provided on the academy website and may vary from time to time. Sufficient notice of arrangements will be given before the annual application. The Academy will accordingly provide for the admission of 60 pupils each year if sufficient applications for entry are received. Where fewer than the published admission number(s) for the relevant year groups are received, the Academy Trust will offer places at the Academy to all those who have applied. To help you to understand the admission process better, we have produced several documents listed below. Please read the documents carefully. We hope you will find them helpful and informative. At Northwold Primary School we adopt the view that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. We believe that everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a role to play in safeguarding children. To fulfill this responsibility effectively, we consider at all times, what is in the best interests of the child. Northwold is committed to meeting the statutory requirements of the New National Curriculum and Revised Early Years and Foundation Stage Framework (2014). We have developed a broad, balance creative curriculum that stimulates and fosters children’s learning. The ethos of the school promotes a caring and positive learning environment that gives children the opportunity to be the best that they can be. The curriculum fosters the growth and development of the children in all areas of learning. Enrichment opportunities at Northwold are integral to the complete, holistic development of every child. All children have the right to develop new skills, confidence, and leadership working independently, or within a group to enhance their learning experience. Commitment to a team, skill, project, or performance aids each pupil’s sense of pride, self-worth, and achievement, whilst building a platform for academic accomplishment. A full program of clubs is on offer weekly, with opportunities in sports, arts, dance, languages, debating, and professional music lessons. We regularly host and partake in events, plays, musical recitals, and dance performances often working in partnership with charities to fundraise, as well as promote pupil development. Student leadership and enterprise opportunities are a vital component within our school ethos sharing initiative and innovation to further our local, national, and global community. Our School Council is a fundamental part of school life, meeting weekly to ensure that the whole school has a voice, sharing best practice, and offering advice to other pupils The Pupil Premium is a grant which is given to every school by the Government. It is an additional sum to the main school funding and it is to help address national inequalities between the achievements of children eligible for free school meals or children in care and others. The amount granted to each school is based on the number of pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals or who have been eligible in the last six years. Each school makes its own decisions on how the Pupil Premium is spent since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual students within their responsibility. Schools must publish online information on how they have used the spending. The Full Governing Body meets at least once a term. Northwold Primary also has two governor committees: The Resources Committee and the Curriculum Committee each with about half the total GB membership. These meet at least once a term. The Resources Committee deals with Finance, Personnel, and Building matters and allocated policies. The Curriculum Committee deals with the Curriculum, setting attainment targets and reviewing children’s progress.

Northway School is a special school in the London Borough of Barnet catering for over 110 students with a range of learning difficulties, particularly on the Autism spectrum. Northway is a small school, where all staff knows every student by name. All staff teams support each other to maximize learning outcomes for all students. Northway has a modern purpose-built facility and playgrounds equipped for physical exploration and interactive play. With our amazing students, knowledgeable, experienced, and dedicated staff and governing body, comprehensive therapeutic support programs, extensive modern resources, and a supportive community network, it is little wonder that Northway was deemed an outstanding school by Ofsted in its latest inspection. We are a positive and inclusive learning community in which all are valued and respected. We are passionate about developing self-confidence for all members of the school community. We work together, in a safe and stimulating environment to enable everyone to experience and celebrate success, develop independence, and prepare for the future. At Northway, we are passionate about helping our local community and the wider world. We develop the pupil's understanding of the world around them and how they are part of a community by actively engaging in projects to help others. Northway School annually takes part in the 'Me to We initiative. We aim to have a curriculum that, although based around the National Curriculum and the Foundation Stage Curriculum, effectively meets the individual learning needs of the diverse range of children who attend the school. We support the children in becoming as effective learners as possible thus ensuring they each achieve and attain their full personal potential. We aim to have a curriculum that furnishes the children with the skills and the strength to manage changes and transitions in their lives. We hold an annual food drive to collect items for our local homeless shelter, Homeless Action in Barnet. Classes collect food and household items, we bring them all together in a special assembly and then a class delivers them to the homeless shelter. We regularly take part in national fundraising days for different charities such as Children in Need, Sports Relief, and Macmillan Coffee Mornings. Our pupils have sold tea & coffee, dressed up as animals, come to school in pajamas, and taken part in triathlons to help to raise money to help those less fortunate. We have held a variety of fundraising days, from sponsored carwashes to cake sales, to raise money to help people in the developing world. From the money raised, we have bought goats for a village in Africa.

Welcome to Northway. We are proud of our school. It is a happy and successful school, with a team of talented, hard-working, and committed staff who are dedicated to doing the very best for your child. We are equally proud of the wonderful young people in our school who impress us daily with their talent, involvement, and commitment. The children are the key to the success of any school and we are delighted that our pupils are so well behaved, interested and motivated. They contribute greatly to school and bring it to life with their positive attitudes and enthusiasm. The children and their learning are at the heart of everything we do. They inspire our governors and staff to develop the vision for our school as set out here: "Northway School exists to provide its pupils with the best possible learning situation. It aspires to achieve this in a happy, caring, and safe atmosphere where we, the pupils, parents, and staff, are encouraged to see value in ourselves, in each other, and in the community and environment in which we live and work". We take great delight and pride in seeing and sharing in the growth and development of our pupils into Northway Learners- well-rounded individuals ready for the next steps in their learning journey. High expectations, challenges, and support delivered through a relevant and varied school curriculum supplemented by the many extra-curricular activities available are crucial to this. We are proud recipients of the National Healthy Schools Award, Active Mark awarded by Sports England, Basic Skills Quality Mark, the Sing Up and Eco-Schools awards. These national acknowledgments highlight the excellent impact the hard work and commitment of pupils, parents, staff has had on standards in these areas within our curriculum and extra-curriculum provision. The Northway Code continues to be central to life at Northway promoting a consistent approach towards behavior and our attitudes towards one another. It applies equally to all members of the school community before, after, and during the school day, at Breakfast and After School Clubs, activities, and school trips. Here at Northway, we believe in giving our children the opportunity to take part in different roles and clubs at school, to enable them to take up responsibilities for different aspects of the curriculum.

We believe that independent learners become successful members of society. We offer a warm welcome to you. We have high aspirations for all of our pupils and aim to instill a love of learning, which they can carry with them through their lives. We take great pride in our diverse community, valuing every child as an individual. We strive to ensure that all of our children achieve their full potential in learning and life skills, to become valuable contributors to their community and global society. At Northview, we aim to nurture children to become independent learners with positive attitudes that help them to succeed and inspire others. This encourages self-respect and respect for others promoting success and a desire to achieve excellence. Our 'Inspire' values are Inspiration – in our school we encourage children to be an inspiration to each other and to learn in partnership Nurturing – we aim to provide a happy, safe, caring, and stimulating environment that nurtures excellence in learning Success – we encourage all children to achieve the highest standards in all that they do Positivity – we aim to encourage all children to believe in their ability to succeed and achieve their goals Independence – We believe that all children should become independent, critical thinkers with the ability to express their views Respect – through respecting themselves and other people we achieve respect as valued members of the community Excellence – we use our daily learning to shape the path that we take tomorrow to achieve excellence We believe that Northview Primary School owes its existence to the learners in it. We are here to help all our learners to achieve their fullest possible potential for their self-development. Every attempt is made to base our practices and procedures on the fundamental belief that all learners have the same rights irrespective of their current educational attainment, racial origin, creed, gender, physical ability, or cultural background. The school aims to develop and implement educational practices, which regard learners as active participants and not as passive recipients. We also regard the active learning and teaching approaches as an important means of producing critically thinking, self-respecting, self-disciplined, literate, numerate, and well-balanced young people who will be able to have access to a range of opportunities in the years to follow. We aim to continually seek ways and means of developing close and positive working relationships with parents and the communities around us. We aim to ensure that we communicate effectively to all our learners that we value them. We believe that only by doing so, will our learners become adults who respect and value other human beings around them. We aim to promote a learning environment in which learners are motivated and have the self-confidence to raise questions and evaluate their work and attainments. This atmosphere will ensure that the learners show their highest levels of achievement through a positive response to the tasks set. We aim to ensure that every learner leaving our school is confident, happy and healthy, and able to take full advantage of the educational opportunities offered to them. As required by law, all our pupils are taught the National Curriculum for Literacy and Mathematics. Work is differentiated to provide stimulus and challenge and to ensure that all can access the Curriculum. We believe that children learn to make mathematical connections through an investigative approach and this is a feature of the teaching of Mathematics at Northview Primary School. We believe in a creative approach towards Literacy and that by encouraging children to form and extend ideas and opinions, we can give them the confidence to express themselves in their Writing. We aim to develop of love of reading by providing a wide-ranging and stimulating Curriculum. Phonics is a method of teaching children to learn to read and spell words. At Northview, children learn to read phonetically and by word recognition. Children learn the sounds of the individual letters (and sometimes clusters of letters) in the English language and blend them to make the word sound. Phonics teaching begins in the Nursery and continues until the end of Year 2 unless the needs of the child are such that further phonics teaching is required.

At Northside School we believe that Every Child Matters. We provide a safe and healthy environment where pupils enjoy and achieve and make a positive contribution to the life of the school. Northside School aims to develop well-educated, happy, and well-rounded children who have developed a love of learning, independence, initiative, and understanding of others. We provide a supportive and caring environment where every child matters and where all cultures are respected and valued. We thrive in a multi-cultural community where working and co-operating with others is encouraged. At Northside, we value the diversity of all children and adults in the school and recognize the individuality of interests, abilities, motivation, and learning needs. The development of inclusion at our school is seen as the responsibility of everyone, not just a few, and is not viewed as being only to do with high educational needs. We aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum that is relevant to the age and experience of the children and by the National Curriculum strategies. We use teaching methods that motivate children to be actively engaged in their learning and that promote self-esteem and independence. We encourage parents to take a full and active part in their child's development. Many opportunities exist for participating in school life and sharing information about your child's progress. We believe in a philosophy that maintains high standards of behavior from the whole school community through positive expectations and a caring ethos. At Northside we believe every child is unique and special and pride ourselves in the development of fully rounded, confident learners. Children access the SEAL (Social Emotional Aspects of Literacy) curriculum. Also, nurture groups and buddying activities are available. We have a learning mentor who will liaise with parents and schools to ensure that their children are given as much pastoral care as possible. All classes will have PHSE/circle time sessions, there is very successful peer mentoring support for the younger children provided by the KS2 children. We also provide Art therapy from qualified therapists. The children are encouraged to speak to staff about anything that is troubling them, and they can use worry boxes to deal with matters anonymously. Northside school is in a refurbished Victorian building with landscaped playgrounds. A major re-modeling of the school building took place in 2000. This included a Foundation Stage (Nursery and Reception) with landscaped play area, a new dining hall, landscaped KS1 playground, and an ICT suite In 2004, an outside block was refurbished to create an Arts block with a fully equipped music and art room. There are interactive whiteboards in all classrooms from Nursery to Year 6, as well as a board in the ICT suite and a movable interactive board for group work. In addition to the ICT room, we have 6 netbooks in every class and 64 pads for use in class.

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to Northop Hall CP School where you will find a hard-working environment where children enjoy learning and strive to do their best. Our staff is talented and dedicated people who work extremely hard to ensure all children reach their full potential and leave Northop Hall as rounded individuals. Parents and Governors work in partnership with us to provide a lively, stimulating, and caring environment. Together we teach children new skills and develop their knowledge, using the latest technology and in fun ways. We have very high expectations of all our pupils, both in their work and behavior. A happy environment where children are inspired and challenged enabling them to develop into independent and responsible lifelong learners. By offering a broad, balance, skills-based learning experience our child-centered approach provides the purpose and inspires each individual to learn and work towards their potential. By giving responsibility to our children in various circumstances throughout the school, including the school council and eco committee, we develop the skills of decision making, building a culture of respect both for self and others, and promote a healthy lifestyle. By providing challenging activities and wider opportunities to develop thinking skills, we help each individual to develop thinking skills, we help each individual to develop an open mindset, leading to both high academic standards and personal achievement in the wider world. By taking a cooperative approach to a wide range of activities, both in the classroom and in wider aspects of school life, we provide opportunities for children to develop their self-motivation and esteem, build teamwork skills and become problem solvers who can apply their skills in a variety of situations. Maintaining high levels of attendance is a priority in our school and our target is to be above 95% to give everyone the best chance to achieve. Maintaining and even bettering this percentage is our goal and we will continue to closely monitor our situation. To do this, we need your help and your children in school.

Here at Northolt High School, we believe that every student can be successful and reach their full potential. We are proud of our team of dedicated and talented staff who provide an inspiring, structured, and supportive learning environment. The high-quality education we offer our students means that they make excellent progress during their time with us and secure the best outcomes possible. If you would like your child to be educated in a caring environment focused on achievement, then come to Northolt High School. We are a close-knit community, friendly and welcoming and we offer excellent care, guidance, and support alongside high standards of behavior and academic achievement. We are a mixed school in the heart of Northolt. Our students, from diverse backgrounds, form positive relationships characterized by mutual respect across the school. Our curriculum provides numerous opportunities for students to explore their beliefs and to develop values that enable them to become valuable members of the school and wider communities. Older students are given opportunities to act as role models to younger students and this includes mentoring and leadership through a supported Reading Programme. We want our students to be confident, articulate, and socially skilled as well as to have a strong sense of their place in society. Students are supported by a range of staff who are nurturing and skilled in meeting their needs this is why our students make such excellent academic progress during their time with us. Our school motto, Excellence as a Habit, summarises our vision for all. Northolt High School is a vibrant school community. The staff and Governors are committed to providing a high-quality education that ensures that every student can fulfill their potential development academically, spiritually, socially, morally, and culturally. We believe that all our students can be successful irrespective of their background or starting point in life. We want our students to develop strength of character, to be articulate and confident, and secure the best academic outcomes possible. Our school vision reflects how we go about our work - we are "committed to excellence" in all that we do. The school community aspires to be excellent in all key areas including academic outcomes the attitude of students towards their learning student behavior and the quality of support offered to students who may need it. Our curriculum offer includes the essential subjects of English, Mathematics, and Science as well as others including Art, Modern Foreign Languages, Drama, and the Humanities. The values which unite our school community are: Courage Pride Respect We want our students to be optimistic about their lives and to be able to develop positive, healthy relationships. We are a safe and caring community. Our success is based, in part, on the emphasis that we place on knowing each child as an individual and on developing good quality relationships. We welcome families into the school and inform them about all aspects of school life as well as what they can do, in partnership with key staff in the school, to ensure the best outcomes for their child. We value the diversity of the school community that has grown up in recent years and are proud that at least 54 different languages are spoken in the school. We are an inclusive school community and aim to make Northolt High School the school of the first choice within our local community. We are looking forward to an imminent remodeling of the site. Our vision is to create a complex of buildings that are fit to meet the educational needs of our students in the 21st Century and also support the growth of commitment to ongoing learning and recreation to be found within the community. It is our vision that Northolt High School should be an outstanding school at the center of a true learning community.

All schools are different. Each school has its character, ethos, and ways of doing things. This is what makes schools unique and able to offer different things to meet the needs of different families and learners. At Northenden, we believe that a real strength of our school is our ethos and the care, guidance, and support that we offer to our children and families. Our school is a friendly place and we expect a high level of co-operation and consideration from all involved in the lives of the children. We believe that we are a successful school but are always looking ahead to be even better. The ETHOS of a school describes its character and the important values and behaviors which underpin our work and are shown through everyday life at the school. At Northenden, we have three overarching ethos statements which illustrate the important things we value in our school. We believe that RESPECT for each other is very important. It is at the heart of how we treat each other, talk to each other, respond to each other and have regard for each other’s feelings, abilities, backgrounds, family, and other differences, cultures, and needs. At our school, we aim that pupils, staff, parents, governors, and visitors treat each other with respect at all times and that the relationships between these stakeholders in our school are always of the highest quality. A child or young person has a Special Educational Need if they have a learning difficulty or a disability that calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her. A child might have Special Educational Needs, including a learning difficulty, if he or she has significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age or has a disability that prevents or hinders him or her from making use of the facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools. Special Educational Provision is an educational provision that is additional to or different from that made generally for other children of the same age by mainstream schools. There are four broad areas of need identified in the SEN Code of Practice. However, the purpose of identification is to work out what action the school needs to take, not to fit a pupil into a category. In practice, individual children often have needs that cut across all four areas and their needs may change over time. For instance, speech, language, and communication needs can also be a feature of several other areas of SEN, and children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may have needs across all areas, including particularly sensory requirements. The Governing Body’s role is to provide support and act as a ‘critical friend’ to the school and the Headteacher in moving the school forward and ensuring its success. The Governing Body of a school is accountable for its performance, its finances, and the safety and well-being of pupils and staff. All of the above is done by governors voluntarily, some of whom may not have a background in or work in education. Governors bring a wide range of experience to the school, including business and finance, parenting experience, further and higher education, and administrative expertise. Above all, they bring energy, commitment, enthusiasm, and ideas to share with senior staff in shaping the future of the school. The roles and responsibilities of governing bodies are clear in law and there is a clear distinction between the responsibilities and powers of the Headteacher and those of the governors. The Governing Body should take an overview of school development, and support and challenge the Headteacher and other senior staff. The Headteacher is responsible too for forwarding planning but has paid responsibility for this and the overall running of the school. The school is one of the longest-established schools in Manchester and certainly one of the oldest remaining of the Edwardian era. The construction of the school began in 1908 and was completed for opening in 1910. The school has undergone many facelifts and has been well-maintained, over the years but without losing most of its original design and the charm that it had when it first opened over 100 years ago. You can see evidence of the history of the building in its external features. Safeguarding is the ‘umbrella’ term we use to mean everything we do to keep children safe and free from harm. The school has a strong commitment to keeping children safe as well as a range of statutory duties it must carry out in doing so. The SAFETY of the children in our care is of the highest importance to everyone at Northenden Community School. Schools are no longer required to issue and ask parents to sign home-school agreements. However, we believe that a partnership, some understanding, and some expectations must exist between the school, parents, and the children (the partnership triangle) for positive relationships and understandings to exist for the benefit of the children, parents, and the school, including its staff.

Welcome to Northcote Primary School. We are a busy but friendly school, with lots going on. Our Mission to enable pupils to maximize their potential, both intellectually and socially, by creating a stimulating, secure and caring environment in which a broad and balanced education is provided. School Aims: To help pupils to develop lively, enquiring minds, the ability to question and argue rationally, and to apply themselves to tasks and physical skills. To help pupils to acquire knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world. To help pupils to use language and numbers effectively. To instill respect for religious and moral values, and tolerance of other races, religions, and ways of life. To help pupils to understand the world in which they live, and the inter-dependence of individuals, groups, and nations. To help pupils to appreciate human achievements and aspirations. To allow each child the opportunity to achieve his/her potential in happy, caring surroundings. To create a school community in which children, parents, teachers work together for the common good. Reading is at the forefront of our curriculum and at the heart of everything we do at Northcote. From Early Years Foundation Stage to Year 6, we provide our children with daily opportunities to develop their word recognition, comprehension skills, and, above all, their love for reading through our high-quality Phonics, Guided Reading, Home Reading, and English provision. We encourage our pupils to develop their knowledge of a broad variety of genres using high-quality texts as well as developing their own through the use of story mapping, 'role on the wall', and performance. From Phonics to Guided Reading, we adopt multiple strategies to develop our pupil's reading ability and love for literature. We use Letters and Sounds to teach Phonics at Northcote Primary School. We supplement it with the Jolly Phonics scheme. We can learn from the minute we wake up, to the minute we fall asleep. Learning does not just happen in a classroom. We want you to learn all the time, through reading, talking, questioning, researching, investigating, listening. At Northcote Primary School we are committed to inclusion and equal opportunities. We work closely with parents and other agencies to ensure that all children can successfully access the curriculum.

Northcote Lodge is, we believe, unique. Although our ethos is the same as that found in the best country prep schools, our location, in the heart of London, means that we are very different. For parents who are looking for this kind of traditional education for their boys, but who are understandably reluctant to send them off to boarding school at a young age, we believe that Northcote Lodge provides all the benefits of a country prep school whilst allowing boys to remain at home as part of their families. The main function of a prep school is to prepare children for their next school – something that Northcote Lodge does outstandingly well. An important part of my role is to get around the senior schools, and I am struck by how often housemasters tell me how pleased they are to have Northcote boys in their houses, and how well prepared they are. We are unashamedly traditional: manners and respect for others are at the core of everything we do. Academic rigor is important too, but we must not lose sight of the fact that the best public schools are looking for boys who have something to offer outside the classroom. That applies to employers as well nowadays, they are looking at much more than just examination grades. So, we’re equally proud of what the boys achieve outside the classroom as within it. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” – and we don’t want dull boys around here! Our boys play lots of sport (we are lucky to have access to the playing fields just across the road on Wandsworth Common) and we do rather well in matches, often against much bigger schools. Music, Art, and Drama are embedded in the curriculum, and for those boys who are so inclined, there are also plenty of extra-curricular opportunities in these areas. We are a small school, of around 230 boys, with no plans to be any bigger. That’s important. Because it means that all the staff knows every boy by name. Our Common Entrance results speak for themselves: every year our boys get into the best public schools across the country. Being at school should be fun! At Northcote Lodge, it is our firm belief that when a boy is happy he is much more likely to learn than when he is not. Our school day is an extended one – 8.00 am until 6.00 pm for the older boys – which means that, until the very final stages, all homework is done at school. So, when he gets home, a boy’s work is done and he can relax and be part of his family. At Northcote, Lodge teaching is very much immersive and inquiry-led. Critical thinking and the development of life skills are highly valued. Rigorous academic standards ensure consistent success in the public school entrance and scholarship examinations. Internal assessment is an ongoing process with all the boys from the moment they start with us, with progress and achievement being continually monitored. We hold formal exam weeks for all year groups twice each year, with Form 5 taking further exams to help the teachers gain a full understanding of how best to help them for their upcoming Common Entrance and to guide them on areas that need improving. Parents receive a detailed end-of-term report each term. In Michaelmas and Trinity terms these are subject reports, focusing primarily on attitude, application, and achievement. In Hilary term reports are written by the tutors (Shell-Form teacher) in the form of a letter that focuses on other important aspects of school life, including personal development, friendships, and progress generally. Each half term we also send home assessment grades to help inform parents of the boys' attainment and effort in each subject. These enable the staff and parents to monitor the boys' classwork. We also run curriculum evenings at the start of each year where we provide parents with information about what the children will be learning each term and how we intend to teach it. There are also parents' evenings for each year group for parents to meet their son's subject teachers as well as tutor evenings (twice a year) when parents meet their son's tutor and discuss pastoral issues. The boys are encouraged to set themselves a specific task, either physical or mental which should contain a strong element of self-improvement, as well as perhaps serving a purpose in the wider community. Past challenges have been as diverse as a structured recycling program to publishing the Northcote Lodge Cricket Guide for mums. A wide variety of after-school clubs is available, run by both the school's staff and outside instructors, and boys sign up for them at the start of each term. Clubs vary from term to term and have included such diverse activities as golf, woodwork, cookery, chess, debating, drama, computing, basketball, pottery, and model-making.

Northbury Primary School is larger than most primary schools with a capacity of 918 pupils. The large Victorian building has been extended to provide additional classrooms, administrative areas, a dining hall, and a car park. The infant and junior schools merged to form Northbury Primary School on 01/01/14. Northbury Primary is a school where children will be able to fulfill their potential in all areas of learning. We put great emphasis on the all-around development of children, not just on their academic achievement. We include activities that promote positive attitudes and behavior, alongside their spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development. To achieve this, we have a highly dedicated staff committed to seeing our pupils enjoy education to the fullest. At Northbury Primary School, we aim to provide a caring and sharing environment, which is conducive to effective teaching and learning. We seek to develop self-confidence, respect, and tolerance towards others. We seek to promote a happy, welcoming atmosphere where each child feels valued and is enthusiastic to learn to his/her potential. Northbury Primary School is located in Abbey Ward, an area of deprivation (0.49 deprivation indicator - twice the national average) close to Barking Town Centre. Abbey Ward has a high percentage of overcrowded households (34% - more than twice the national average) and an ethnic minority population of 59.3% (national average 23.5%).35% (25% nationally) of our pupils are counted as free school meals and this reflects the deprived home circumstances of the families attending our school. 10% of pupils are on the SEN register. 85% of the pupils' first language is not English (20% nationally), with 96% of the pupils belonging to minority ethnic groups (32% nationally). Our main ethnic groups are Black African (27%), Asian Pakistani (21%), Asian Bangladeshi (13%), and White Other (10%). 4% is White British. Our main first languages are English (15%), Urdu (16%), Swahili (11%), and Bengali (9%). In total, there are over 40 languages spoken by the pupils. The main religious groups are Muslims (60%) and Christians (30%). The school holds the Gold Healthy Schools Award, the Gold Sustainable Travel Award, the Gold Primary Science Quality Mark, the Silver Food for Life Award, the Bronze Eco-schools Award, the Bronze School Games Mark, and the DCSF International School Award. The school seeks to offer a wide and well-balanced curriculum with a special emphasis on English, Mathematics, and Science. The school uses Letters and Sounds like the main phonics scheme, yet draws on several other schemes to reinforce the teaching. Computing lessons are taught in the computer suites and using the laptops. The Foundation Subjects: History, Geography, Art, Design and Technology, Music, French, P.E., and PSHE are taught as subjects through appropriate study units, based on the National Curriculum documents. We also teach Philosophy for Children. We aim to ensure that all pupils have equal access to the curriculum. Children with Special Educational Needs must be identified as early as possible so that they can get the support they need. You can help by informing the class teacher of any difficulty you feel that your child is experiencing. We offer pupils support as soon as the need is identified by developing a structured program of work closely matched to their needs. We also liaise with other agencies to secure further support. Parents are kept informed of pupils’ progress through regular review meetings. The school welcomes all pupils to be part of the learning community, regardless of gender, race, language, or disability. The curriculum is adapted to meet the needs of all learners where appropriate to ensure equality of access. The new building ensures that all learners will be able to access the curriculum, regardless of disability. We aim to ensure that all pupils who speak English as an Additional Language receive support to gain full access to the school curriculum. An initial assessment is made as soon as possible after pupils arrive at school. The work is carefully planned in collaboration with class teachers to help pupils gain confidence in using the English language. Pupils are supported in the classroom, in small groups, and individually. Religious Education is delivered through a scheme of work based on the 'Agreed Syllabus for R.E.'. It is not our intention to promote any one particular religious view as right or wrong. Our assemblies comply with the Education Reform Act which means that we have a daily act of worship that is in the main of a Christian nature. However, we encourage our pupils to respect all religious and cultural beliefs that are reflected in the school and our local community. Parents do have the right to withdraw their children from RE and assemblies, and if you wish to consider this option then please contact the Headteacher. PSHE education is a planned program of learning through which children acquire the knowledge, understanding, and skills they need to manage their lives. As part of a whole-school approach, PSHE develops the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members, and members of society.

Northbourne Park School is set in over one hundred acres of beautiful park and woodland in rural Kent, close to Canterbury and within easy reach of central London. It is a wonderful venue for residential and non-residential activities, conferences, weddings, and activity courses during the Easter and Summer holidays. Northbourne Park School offers Conference facilities Historic dining hall seating up to 80 Beautiful park and woodland 13th-century church Sports fields Indoor sports hall Outdoor swimming pool (heated) Tennis courts Overnight accommodation We can cater to educational groups Sporting groups Societies & organizations Wedding blessings and Christenings Private functions Corporate Away Days A small school with excellent pastoral care and a family feel. Having top academic results both for the Kent Grammar School Test and Scholarships to Senior Schools rated excellent in the 2017 ISI inspection. Offers bespoke learning to ensure every child reaches their potential. Northbourne Park School is the best start for your child with a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities. The Nursery and Pre-Prep School has 30 hours a week free education (government-funded) in the Nursery Class. Tax-Free Childcare accepted as payment towards Nursery fees, Breakfast Club, late service charges, holiday activities. Wrap-around childcare service available Flexible hours in the Nursery Small class sizes Low child/staff ratios School transport from local area Well balanced and varied curriculum Friendly and homely environment Outstanding outdoor environment Excellent academic progress Weekly French, Music, and Forest School sessions all run by specialist teachers Extra individual learning support available Healthy good quality food for snacks and lunch Parent and Child sessions (0-4 years) The Prep School provides a high-energy, stimulating educational experience for all of our boys and girls as they make their way to either Kent Grammar Schools at 11+ or to Public Schools at 13+. The children are very much at the center of all we do here, and the Northbourne Park experience is a team effort, with the staff, children, parents, and governors all working together to provide a stimulating education that is as broad as it is deep and wide. Our educational philosophy is simple and successful if your child is happy, supported, and cared for in their educational lives, they will want to work hard and to get involved in a wide range of stimulating extra-curricular activities and contribute more and more to the school community. Outstanding pastoral care ensures that we focus on the individual needs of every child, encouraging them and inspiring them to succeed across a wide range of learning experiences whether in the classroom, in sport, music, drama, and leadership, or the wide range of other activities on offer to them at the school. Our buildings, park, and woodland provide wonderful spaces for children to enjoy their educational journey, whether it is playing in the woods, camping out, following the pioneering Outdoor Education program, or developing a strong interest in their natural surroundings. Northbourne Park children are proud to be individuals and are all different. They are however widely recognized as articulate, hard-working, confident, considerate, and very much 'free-range' in their attitudes they can think laterally to find solutions and have an unusually mature moral compass based on firm spiritual values which are to the benefits of our whole community. In the last few years, Northbourne Park boys and girls have progressed with confidence and often with Scholarships to King’s Canterbury, Tonbridge, Benenden, St Edmund’s Canterbury, Stowe, The Leys Cambridge, Lancing, Kent College, and further afield. Our French and Spanish pupils in the parallel academic classes in Year 7 and 8 return to French and Spanish lycées after one or two years with us. Pre-Prep Department: Address: The Old Rectory, Betteshanger, Deal, Kent CT14 0NJ Tel: +441304611792 Email: [email protected]

Founded in 1945 by Rabbi Margulies, the Premishlaner Rebbe, for the Jewish Community in the area, North West is the school of choice for the local orthodox communities of Brondesbury, Hampstead, and St John’s Wood. North West combines a strong Jewish education with the National Curriculum. We aim to give children the knowledge, understanding, and life skills to help them flourish in the outside world. We believe that there is an essential ABCD of education – Academics, Behaviour, Creativity, and Dialogue which produces the ideal learning environment for our children. At North West, children are taught to develop a love of Judaism’s laws, teachings, and history and to have a thorough understanding and respect for their Jewish Heritage. Through our ethos of Torah with knowledge of the world around them, they are shown how to relate to others and understand differences both within the school and in the wider community. Our vibrant Jewish traditions and culture, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, are celebrated in school through daily Tefillah, Kabbalat Shabbat, and celebration of the Chaggim. During Rosh Chodesh assemblies older boys get the opportunity to read from the Torah and when Succot falls within the school term, children eat in the succah and use the Arba minim during Tefillah. A love of Israel is instilled in our children both through marking special days in its history and by learning Ivrit from the Nursery onwards. In Year 6 children participate in a tailor-made Ulpan towards the end of their last term, to help solidify and enhance the Ivrit they have learned before they leave the school. Parents are expected to support the orthodox ethos of the school at home, particularly through Kashrut and Shabbat observance, as well as supporting their children in their Jewish learning and living. Parents are invited to attend Kabbalat Shabbat when their children are in the younger years and help their older children write Divrei Torah parents are expected to support their children as they learn to read and develop fluency, and parents are invited to special events such as the pre-Shavuot parent-child learning program and the popular pre-Chaggim adult education evenings organized by the school. North West is an ambitious school, committed to excellence, and just as our pupils never stop learning, neither do we. We have a rich heritage and for nearly 70 years we’ve worked with thousands of children to help them fulfill their potential. Our dedicated staff know every child by nature, not just by name, and are strongly committed to caring for and bringing out the best in our children so that they develop into strong, well-rounded individuals. We believe that working to our children's strengths is imperative in developing the children’s confidence and self-esteem. We strive for the highest quality teaching and our achievements are consistently outstanding. Our SATs (Statutory Assessment Tests) results from rank amongst the highest in London and the UK, with children moving on to a range of top, highly regarded Jewish and non-Jewish secondary schools. North West London Jewish Day School aims to: Continually strive for excellence. Give children solid foundations in academic (Secular and Kodesh), practical and life skills to become confident learners and leaders. Promote an open-minded, tolerant, respectful environment with a clear understanding of British values, linking with other faith schools and the wider world around us. Foster a love of Torah learning and Israel. Ensure that Every Child Matters and provides equal opportunities for all across all areas of school life.