We are a high-achieving, busy but friendly school, with lots going on. Thomas Wall Nursery and Robin Hood Infants School federated in September 2007. We share a site and in joining together, we have created a very large early years unit, including an assessment unit for nursery-aged children with complex communication difficulties.
There are 390 children on the roll, housed in twelve classrooms. We have many awards and accreditations including the Primary Quality Mark, Healthy Schools, and Sports Quality Mark. Our end of Key Stage 1 attainment is high and we work hard to maintain this. Both schools have been judged as outstanding in OFSTED inspections.
Our vision and values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning and provide an environment that prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens. Children are our priority. We work with families to provide a welcoming, caring and inclusive, yet challenging environment, in which children feel safe and reach their full potential.
We offer a creative curriculum to inspire children to become independent learners and thoughtful individuals with respect for themselves and others, building strong foundations for their future part in society.
We aim for children to:
- Feel happy, secure, confident, and valued.
- Be lively, independent, and inquisitive thinkers.
- Work hard at learning and enjoy their success.
- Show respect for themselves, each other, and people in our community.
- Enjoy physical exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle.
- Achieve as highly as they possibly can, using spoken and written language to communicate, and mathematics to calculate.
- Learn the technical skills necessary for the modern world.
We aim for staff to help the children to:
- Develop lively, independent, and enquiring minds.
- Learn to work hard and enjoy each success, developing self-confidence and a love of learning.
- Acquire the knowledge and skills set out in the National Curriculum, using language, mathematics, and computing to communicate and reason.
- Respect themselves, each other, and people in our community by recognizing that although everyone is different, all are equal.
- Enjoy a healthy lifestyle, using physical exercise to control their bodies.
- Take responsibility for their actions and play a part in making decisions in school.
- Continue learning out of school supported by an active Home-School partnership.
At ‘The Federation of Thomas Wall Nursery and Robin Hood Infants' we follow a creative curriculum in both the Early Years Foundation Stage and KS1. Children enjoy learning through an exciting and engaging curriculum that is enriched through school trips, extra-curricular activities, themed weeks, and special days.
A love for learning is developed through an exciting play-based curriculum that children access through both independent plays and focus activities with adults. Children are encouraged to make connections in their learning through a creative topic-based approach led by the children’s interests. Children can engage with their learning through an imaginatively resourced free-flow learning environment that enables exploratory and child-initiated play both indoors and outdoors.
We believe it is important that children develop as lively, independent, and inquisitive thinkers. Children learn through a topic-based creative curriculum that encourages independent learning, critical thinking skills, and a healthy lifestyle.
