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We are a thriving multi-cultural school situated in the London Borough of Sutton, near to Croydon. We have the greatest pride in our children and their achievements and strive to achieve our very best in everything we do. Our school sees each pupil as unique and individual. We are both committed and successful in ensuring that each child is encouraged, nurtured, and challenged to achieve their fullest academic, artistic, sporting, and social potential. Academically, we are very strong. Children in our school very often attain exceptionally well when compared to all national averages and expectations. From varied ability on entry to our school, 97% of our children achieved at least the expected standard in Reception last year, with many more achieving the highest standard possible. This is a feat that has also been repeated by us many times over previous years. We are regularly congratulated by the Department for Education in respect of the quality and performance of our phonics teaching and outcomes. Essentially, this means how we ensure that our children can read confidently and fluently from a very early age. The government runs a national check on phonics performance and our school consistently ensures that almost every child confidently passes this test. This is another area in which the school confidently surpasses all national averages. Achievement throughout the rest of the school is also very strong over time and we regularly ensure that on leaving us, nearly every child attains or surpasses the government criteria for ‘secondary ready’. This, again, is significantly in advance of published national expectations and averages. Our children are rightly very proud of their performance here at Beddington Park Primary School. We achieve these successes via a real and genuine focus on your child as an individual. Parents and carers of Beddington Park Primary children choose to send their sons and daughters to us and trust us to educate and keep them safe. We would never underestimate the importance or significance of this trust and our performance over time is a testament to our commitment to ensuring nothing but the very best for our children. Our significant academic success does not come about purely by chance. We are very proud of our children, and will always strive to ensure that they receive nothing but the very best of our efforts, dedication, and professionalism. We have a very strong commitment to fostering and developing respectful, polite, and well-mannered children, and so laying the foundations for our pupils to grow into kind, caring, and positive members of the wider community. Our pupils set great store by our school code of ‘Politeness, Manners, and Respect’. Consequently, behavior, care, and friendship amongst pupils and across our school are very good. Children are, in short, very proud of themselves, their school and also very proud of each other. Children exemplify our central motto of ‘Learning, Sharing and Growing Together as Friends’ at all times and in all circumstances. Our environment is exceptionally vibrant and stimulating, helping to inspire the highest standards and aspirations in all. In short, we encourage and facilitate every child to reach their fullest potential and strive to fulfill all of their most dearly held dreams. Our vibrant, topic-based curriculum has been designed and developed by our staff. Whilst adhering absolutely to the National Curriculum, it spans excellence in the sciences, arts, and sport, and provides many varied and exciting learning opportunities which are unique and bespoke to our local area, community, and children. This full and rich curriculum is well supported by many varied clubs, trips, and outside opportunities. At Beddington Park Primary School, every child is valued, unique, and special. Our central motto of ‘Learning, Sharing and Growing Together as Friends’ perfectly encapsulates our total commitment to ensuring that your child receives the very best quality, rich and diverse education, precisely tailored to their interests, learning styles, experiences, and aspirations. Our curriculum is creative and exciting. We will afford every child equal and inclusive access to a wide and innovative range of experiences, challenges, and achievements which will stimulate and excite. We will aim to provide and encourage the skills for safe, independent learning, which will stand our children in excellent stead for the future ahead. We will develop enquiring minds and foster the highest standards and aspirations – our children will recognize and believe that, with focus, determination, and commitment, anything is within their reach. View full school

Beddington Infants’ School offers a uniquely immersive learning experience. Our provision is designed to meet the needs of the children in a natural, home-like environment. Learning opportunities are meaningful, related to real life, and incorporate the interests of our children. Our vision is encapsulated in The Seven Gifts of Beddington Infants’ School. The first thing you will notice when you visit the school is that the buildings and outside spaces are designed to offer your child a range of structured opportunities to develop the skills and attitudes of a motivated independent learner. Learning happens everywhere. Staff and families support children’s learning so that they have a genuine thirst for knowledge and are self-motivated to achieve. Their developing understanding of the learning process and the pride they experience when they make progress inspires them to take their Next Steps. Every member of staff is dedicated to the best possible outcomes for each child – the children know it and respond accordingly. Once families join us they know that it’s the warm relationships between staff and families, staff and children and children and children that make the school a place where children thrive. There are many opportunities for families to spend time in the learning environment with their children throughout the year. These opportunities enable families to see how settled and productive their children are at school. As professionals, we continually reflect on our provision. All members of staff are involved in our regular self-evaluation. There are a real drive and passion amongst the staff to keep improving. We consult research that has been carried out internationally and nationally. We also carry out our research so that we can develop our provision to meet the needs of our children. Our aim is that children are active participants in their learning, rather than having education forced upon them. Over the past few years, we have made a series of small adaptations to our provision which has resulted in a school where children thrive as individuals. While maintaining a strong focus on every child’s right to make strong academic progress, we support children in learning to think, to take responsibility for themselves and their learning, to find out who they are, to develop concepts of themselves as writers, mathematicians, musicians, artists, scientists, gardeners, etc. Working in genuine partnership with our families, our children stand tall and proud because they know who they are. The children are our greatest support in getting our provision right. We consult them regularly and their ability to reflect and suggest accurate Next Steps for themselves, each other, and us never ceases to amaze us. Many years ago, we removed our expectations of what young children can achieve. We asked ourselves ‘what if….?’ Every day the children surprise us. We believe in a truly inclusive provision. We appreciate that everyone is unique and, therefore, special. Through pastoral care and our innovative curriculum, we ensure that every individual child feels a valued member of our school community and is fully involved in every aspect of our provision. View full school