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    St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School was opened over a hundred years ago to serve the needs of a growing Catholic population in Hanwell. It was staffed by nuns from the order of St. Joseph of Peace and the order still has a convent of nuns across the road from the church. We have served the children on our present site since 1907.
    The school was set up to meet the needs of poor immigrants (the clever nuns ran a private school in Cuckoo Dene to help fund the "poor" school) and throughout its century of service St. Joseph's has welcomed Catholic children from across the world and helped them and their families to be successful members of Hanwell, London, and U.K. society and good Catholic people.
    Your children's year group pages will have specific curriculum information and website links for that age group and the "Our Catholic School" section hosts the latest news about R.E. and our Catholic life. “Letters and Sounds” is the phonics scheme used throughout the school and we use a range of reading schemes including Oxford Reading Tree in Key Stage One.
    There are three different types of clubs that operate within the school. School Care available from the end of the school day to 6.00 pm is provided, at a cost, by Fit for Sport. Please click on the hyperlink on the home page to contact them about places.
    Other clubs are provided by outside providers who use our facilities but are not managed by the school and regrettably the school office staff are therefore not able to help with queries about these. Examples include the Guitar Club, Spanish Club, Drama, Ballet, and Gymnastics (see details below). A charge is levied for these clubs.
    Thirdly school staff run clubs out of their goodwill and free of charge. These are advertised in September for parents to select alongside their children. If oversubscribed places are awarded based on identifying children who would have a particular benefit from the club (usually one or two places) and thereafter names go into a random draw.
    Historically the children entitled to pupil premium have been very academically successful at St Joseph's. Up to 2013, every child met the expected Level 4 standards in all areas. Further analysis however showed no children entitled to pupil premium met the more rigorous Level 5 however. This position was rectified in 2014 and 2015 with Level 5's and Level 6's being attained.
    In 2016 the new assessment system was implemented at KS2 and this created a "blip" year where the seven children entitled to PP in Year Six scored 95 raw points or more except those with profound special needs. These children had gained from additional booster classes both inside and beyond the school day and the support of Mrs. Whybrew, funded from the pupil premium allocation.
    In the early years, the need to focus on speaking and listening both within the PP cohort and beyond means we have switched some of the allocations to support an additional nursery nurse to promote the achievement of EAL children.

    St Josephs Catholic Primary School
    Founding year: 1907
    Website: Visit Website
    Number of students: 0
    Genders Accepted: Mixed (Co-education)
    Leadership: Mr. Head Teacher: B W Cassidy
    Address: York Avenue, Hanwell, London, W7 3HU, United Kingdom



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