Somerville Primary School is a community school, which proudly serves the local community. We have 790 pupils from Nursery to Year 6. The vast majority of our pupils are Muslim and we hold a determination to hold Islamic acts of worship daily. The pupils come from many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, which help to make Somerville School a vibrant and exciting place to learn. We provide a safe and secure environment for all, with up-to-date technological equipment to ensure that our children and staff are ICT literate.
At Somerville, we feel that it is important to develop the whole child and therefore provide children with a range of learning experiences from educational visits, residentials, visitors in school as well as exciting lessons and inspirational workshops. We feel that the important link between home and school should be strengthened and therefore invite parents into school at every opportunity from transition workshops to attend parties.
Somerville is an inclusive, caring, and inspirational school providing equal opportunities for every child, staff, and family at the hub of the community. Our objectives are to:
- Provide a happy, caring, and safe learning environment.
- Provide equal access to a curriculum, which promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development.
- Prepare children for their future role in society by developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
To achieve these objectives we shall endeavor to:
- Be open, fair, and just.
- Cater for the needs of the individual as well as for those of the whole school
- Offer equality of opportunity to all.
- Continually strive to improve on our previous best.
- Encourage good attendance and punctuality.
- Provide a warm, bright, safe, and caring environment that is conducive to learning.
- Work as a 'family, where each member has a role to play.
- Actively seek community participation to create a partnership, which contributes to the success of our school.
The national curriculum is a set of subjects and standards used by primary and secondary schools so children learn the same things. It covers what subjects are taught and the standards children should reach in each subject. Other types of schools like academies and private schools don’t have to follow the national curriculum. Academies must teach a broad and balanced curriculum including English, maths, and science. They must also teach religious education.
