London Fields is a thriving two-form entry primary school. We are very lucky to have a strong and dedicated staff group who are passionate about the quality of the education they provide. We believe that primary education is more than just academic achievement. We aim to foster a love of learning in our children that they will carry through their life. We also place a strong emphasis on ensuring an ethical ethos and strong values system permeates everything we do.
We are committed to keeping our children safe and promote a culture of vigilance through vigorous and robust policies and procedures. We believe that children have a right to learn in a supportive, caring, and safe environment which includes the right to protection from all types of abuse where staff are vigilant for signs of any pupil in distress and are confident about applying our safeguarding processes to avert and alleviate any such problems.
Children can start nursery at London Fields Primary School, the school term after their third birthday. You can apply to the school once they are two and a half by completing an application form and returning it to the school office with official proof of address, dated within three months, and an official birth certificate. A general application form can be collected from the school office. Places will be allocated towards the end of the spring term, before your child starting in September.
We have chosen to name our classes after a range of famous people who we feel represent some of the values and dispositions we aim to foster at London Fields. The different classes have spent some time researching into their namesake's life and work.
We strongly believe that children achieve best when school and homework in close partnership. Please use the information on this page to help your child at home. Please do not hesitate to ask if you need any further information or help.
The quality of the curriculum is outstanding. It gives pupils memorable experiences and builds upon their interests and aspirations. The excellent displays around the school not only celebrate the high-quality work which pupils produce but also the range and depth of subjects that they learn about. The curriculum meets the needs of the current National Curriculum very well. Clear and extensive information on the website ensures that parents and carers are kept very well informed about what their children are learning. We are very proud of our curriculum which has been developed by subject specialists and been nationally recognized through various awards. Please click on the links to the left for more details on each subject and see the table below for a curriculum outline for each year group.
Achievement, progress, challenge, inspiration, and enjoyment are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to providing children with the very best education to ensure that each child reaches their maximum potential and develops a lasting love of learning and a sense of curiosity in the world around them. We know that children who feel respected and proud of themselves will learn best. Both achievement and perseverance are celebrated and recognized.
We aim to deliver excellent education by providing a stimulating, rich, and relevant curriculum which balances the rigorous teaching of core skills and knowledge with creative and imaginative opportunities. We believe in our role in shaping future communities and aim to ensure our children leave here as happy, successful individuals – sociable, thoughtful, confident, and equipped with the skills they need to do the best they can in their immediate environment and the wider world.
Our expectations of the children and the adults within the school are high. We foster a welcoming, safe, disciplined environment where all children, families, and all other members of our school community are treated with tolerance, kindness, and respect.
We are extremely lucky to have a dedicated and hardworking staff group and a very supportive governing body. The most valuable resource in a school is the people who work there. The staff work as a team to deliver the best educational experience they can for the children of London Fields.
We are very proud to have been awarded the Kidscape Bullying Intervention Training (BIT) Certificate. In 2015, London Fields pupils from Years 1-6 took part in a week-long anti-bullying training including preventative and remedial strategies to dealing with bullying, self-esteem and conflict resolution workshops, and activities to celebrate our differences. On ‘Friendship Friday’ (September 2015) we spent a day reminding ourselves what makes a good friend and practicing being one. This included writing compliments to each other and doing good deeds. We wore our clothes and raised money for Kidscape. In Autumn 2015 we participated in the national anti-bullying week (16-20thNovember) with the theme ‘Make a Noise about Bullying’, learning how to identify and safely report bullying. In KS2, we reminded ourselves of what is cyber-bullying and how to block someone or report it. We thought about the consequences of bullying and what happens to the perpetrators. In KS1, we read books about bullying and discussed the situations and how they could have been better, and made posters against bullying.
