Welcome to Wavertree Church of England School. Wavertree CE School is a small primary school in the heart of Wavertree overlooking the Mystery. The Victorian building was beautifully renovated in 1999 and further improvements have recently been made. Our Christian values (Thankfulness, Friendship, Forgiveness, Trust, Compassion, Fellowship, Peace, and Humility) underpin all aspects of our school children are encouraged to demonstrate our eight values every day.
We are very proud of the achievements of our pupils and celebrate success every week. At Wavertree, CE schools work very hard to provide the children with a broad and balanced curriculum that has been designed to ensure progress. This curriculum is presented creatively through a topic-based approach. We are responsible for specific areas of the curriculum to ensure that learning opportunities are maximized each term. We offer a Breakfast Club for pupils in Reception - Y6 each morning and an After School Club Provision is in place for pupils.
At Wavertree School, each class embraces a Christian value that we all strive to follow within the school and in the community beyond. Every class will learn about their Christian value and will share something of their learning with the community through a Class Assembly each year.
This year Wavertree CE School is aiming to raise the profile of reading so that our children begin to recognize the value of reading for pleasure. In school, all classes are organizing and hosting a huge variety of different reading activities. We are hoping to get many parents involved too.
We hope that we will be able to achieve the Reading Quality Mark which recognizes us as a school that embraces reading as an integral part of our learning and opens door to new worlds.
In 1867 the National Society for the Education of the Poor, a foundation created by The Church of England, built a school on the edge of the expanse of land now known as The Mystery. This school, to be known as Trinity District School, was designed by architect Edward.
The building continued to function as a Church of England Controlled School throughout the 20th Century. Daily log books were handwritten by headteachers and now in the care of the University archives show a fascinating insight into the day-to-day life of the school through the ages, and include some particularly poignant accounts of pupils who failed to return to school the day after many of the night bombing raids of the Second World War.
During the protracted negotiations involved in achieving this, both aesthetically and financially, the newly-named Wavertree Church of England School continued to operate between two sites-the St. Bridget’s building, and Trinity District- as two parallel schools on either side of the Wavertree Mystery Park (St. Mary’s having already been demolished, and a Nursing Home built on the former site). When building work finally started, both schools were decanted into the much smaller Thorneycroft Rd site.
Privations resulting from the rapidly disintegrating state of the old St Bridget’s school and an arson attack which caused a large part of the building to be permanently sealed off created a huge challenge to pupils and staff, and it was with great relief that the school was finally able to move back into the newly refurbished Prince Alfred Road building in May of 1998.
