Woodside Primary Academy, where our priority is the well-being and progress of every child. We have worked hard to develop an atmosphere of trust, happiness, and achievement here at the school, to ensure that your child feels cared for and supported on their educational journey. Ofsted recognizes the excellent work in the areas above and has graded us as Outstanding in all areas of education (July 2016).
Developing young people who hold respect for the world and people around them is central to our vocation at Woodside. We want our pupils to leave Woodside embracing the core values that are linked to a successful life, both in terms of developing and achieving personal goals as well as the ability to positively contribute to the world at large. We issue all new parents with a home school agreement to reflect these life values. Parents, pupils, governors, and staff have all contributed to their respective sections of the agreement. This has now been signed by every pupil, parent, staff member, and the Chair of Governors. From now on, the form will be signed by all new Woodside pupils. This agreement forms the heart of our school community! It symbolizes us all coming together as one to support our children in their journey towards becoming successful young adults.
Since our Ofsted Inspection, we have worked hard to ensure we further develop exciting opportunities for all pupils. We now have our Friday afternoon sessions, where every pupil has a term of enrichment experiences. These include rock climbing, fencing, photography, cooking, gardening, drone flying, and our Community Support programs where pupils go out and spend inter-generational afternoons with our vulnerable elderly people in their care home.
We have also opened our state-of-the-art Enrichment Centre in January. It hosts cooking facilities for an entire class. Every pupil will cook six times per year, using the recipes designed with Executive Chef (The Ivy) Gary Lee. Our Science Laboratory can cater to 60 pupils and forms part of our high-quality science provision. The new computing suite has an animation and recording studio, film equipment, and drone flying capacity.
