We at The Willow Primary School are in the privileged position to know that what we do every day makes a difference and sometimes THE difference between a bright future and limited life chances. We strive to give the children a first-class, stimulating, fun, and well-rounded educational experience. We believe in the right to an excellent education and we are proud of the service we offer.
Willow Learners Are Incredible:
- Inquisitive
- Nurturing
- Collaborative
- Resilient
- Enthusiastic
- Determined
- Independent
- Brave
- Limitless
- Expressive
We continually strive to improve what we offer so that when every child leaves, they will look back on their life with us with pride about their achievement and joy with their memories".
Our children are passionate learners who excel academically and are resilient, reflective, creative, and confident. They leave us with the competencies needed to thrive in the current and future world.
OUR VALUES:
- We ensure our children love coming to school because it is safe, fun, challenging, and exciting.
- We have high expectations and are committed to supporting each individual to achieve their dreams.
- Everyone is valued as a unique member of our diverse community.
- We uphold the highest standards in all that we do and look continually to improve ourselves so that what we do today, we do even better tomorrow.
We are a two-form entry primary school catering for children aged 4-11 years of age. We also have a 100 place children's center located next to the school which nurtures children from 1 to 4 years including our nursery school provision.
At The Willow Primary School, we aim to enable our pupils to be resilient, resourceful, responsible learners who have the confidence, skills, and attitudes to be successful lifelong achievers. We work hard to ensure that the children are provided with high-quality learning experiences that lead to a consistently high level of pupil achievement and attitude.
We offer the children a wide and varied curriculum. Mornings are mainly spent on the core skills of English and Maths with the afternoon sessions focusing on Science, PE, Music, and Topic.
We are fortunate to have an extensive integration program with The Brook Special school who shares our site. The new Broadwaters Inclusive Learning Community building and site have been designed and built to enable both pupils of The Willow and The Brook to mutually benefit. Small groups of children visit each other’s school, join in some lessons and participate in shared activities and outings. Each class from The Willow is linked with a class from The Brook.
We are fortunate to have an extensive integration program with The Brook Special school who shares our site. The new Broadwaters Inclusive Learning Community building and site have been designed and built to enable both pupils of The Willow and The Brook to mutually benefit. Small groups of children visit each other’s school, join in some lessons and participate in shared activities and outings. Each class from The Willow is linked with a class from The Brook.
We believe that children are active learners who learn through their senses, through investigation, experimentation, listening, watching, social interaction, questioning, and exploring. Your child is a special and unique individual and will be encouraged to develop their confidence, skills, and talents in these early years of education.
Our Nursery prides itself on providing a safe and caring environment that offers the children both the opportunity to have fun and learn at the same time. In Nursery, we have been learning about Nursery Rhymes, Ourselves, and Our Families, and we will be covering fun and interesting topics such as Celebrations, Outer Space, The Jungle, and Sports.
The children have the opportunity to play, learn, experiment, and explore both inside and outside of the Nursery. We are learning to write and count all the time in many different and fun ways. We also have an area for writing and reading, numbers, puzzles and games, painting, building, sand and water, the list goes on. Pop in and have a look for yourself.
Nursery outings are arranged throughout the year and the children get the chance to see everything they are learning about in the Nursery first hand outside of the Nursery. Past trips out have included everything from digging for Minibeasts in the local park, the seaside, the Science Museum.
Our goal is to enhance and embellish this curriculum, whilst maintaining a strong emphasis on acquiring the basic tools vital to early schooling. Every day is an adventure and a time of discovery. However, we carefully structure the work to help children develop their skills and relationships to enable them to reach their Early Learning Goals milestones by the end of the Reception year, with most children exceeding them.
We recognize that not all children develop at the same speed, or in the same way, so we differentiate accordingly allowing our more able children to achieve very high standards. By observing all children at work and play we can continuously assess progress and attainment.
