At Ashbury Meadow, we believe in the value of every child and adult who enters our doors and becomes part of our community and by showing value, we expect them to show value and respect towards one another. We encourage and support every child to reach their true potential, leaving them equipped and empowered for the next step of their life and learning journey.
Class teachers are responsible for the children’s welfare and delivery of the curriculum. We have introduced a creative curriculum, based on project-based learning. This year we are continuing our whole school project, based on our local area. Pupils will use key geography and history skills to investigate places close to us and present their work to the community. We work closely with The East Manchester Academy and other high schools to ensure a quality transition and also enable our pupils to experience sports, science, maths, and literacy activities that we cannot provide at primary school. We are very proud to be starting our journey to becoming a Unicef Rights Respecting School.
We are situated in the heart of an urban regeneration area in a superb primary school building, which opened in September 2004. The building was extended in 2015, enabling us to move to two form entries and creating a wonderful open plan early years resource. We have extensive grounds, including an internal courtyard which we use as a sheltered growing area, and also a wildlife and woodland area. We put a great deal of emphasis on learning outside of the classroom. Within school, we have created an outdoor classroom, KS1, and KS2 activity areas, and further play areas in the early years, including a mud kitchen, woodland walk, and castle treehouse. This summer we will be creating an auditory walk through another wooded area for the whole school to enjoy and learn from.
The Government has released a New National Curriculum which was implemented in September 2014. The National Curriculum provides pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens. It introduces pupils to the best that has been thought and said and helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.
At Ashbury Meadow we want to enable pupils to become enquiring, independent learners who are engaged actively in their learning by teachers who facilitate rather than direct. We encourage pupils to ask questions and find answers through project-based learning that takes place both inside and outside of the classroom. We have engaged with Cornerstones Education to provide a curriculum based on four key areas, engage, develop, innovate and express. Please see the links below to find out more about the Cornerstones Curriculum. On the individual year group curriculum overviews, there is no link for term 4. This is the term we do our whole school project-based learning. In Early Years, the curriculum is planned around the children's interests, both within the indoor and outdoor continuous provision, and supported by Cornerstones Early Years ILPs. Please see the files below to access the year group curriculums and supporting Cornerstones documents.
Our Governing Body exists to support and challenge the staff at the school and to ensure that our children get an outstanding education that they deserve. It is made up of parents, staff, members of the community, and other co-opted Governors with expertise and experience in education or related fields. We meet twice termly as a Full Governing Body and several sub-committees meet in between those times.
E-safety is an integral part of children’s education in today’s digital world and is embedded in their learning at school. We also want to help our parents and children improve their understanding of e-safety issues so they can learn to use the internet and all digital media safely and securely. We must work together as a community to ensure that the internet is a safe space for our children.
As a parent you'll know how important the internet is to children - they use it to learn, play, socialize and express themselves. It's a highly creative place of amazing opportunities. But the technology children use every day can seem a bit daunting and you might worry about the risks your child can face online - such as bullying, contact from strangers, or the possibility of them seeing illegal or inappropriate content.
The school has close links with the neighboring Manchester City Football Club and benefits greatly from the City in the Community programs, which include healthy lifestyles, disability awareness, cooking, and teaching pupils about money matters. The football club also supports our curriculum by providing physical education coaching for all year groups from year 1-6, out-of-school football, and use of their swimming pool. We can walk across the grounds for tournaments throughout the year.
