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Dulwich Hamlet has been at the heart of the local community since its foundation in 1897. More than a century later, and has educated many thousands of children from the surrounding area, our school has become integral to village life and a cornerstone of the community. We strive to maintain this special place in the future of Dulwich. Now a popular and well oversubscribed junior school in the London Borough of Southwark, our reputation for educational excellence and as champions of outstanding learning through innovative, creative education is widely known. We are particularly proud of our musical tradition, with every child taught to compose, perform, listen to, appraise and appreciate music. We have developed and nurtured many young musical talents and provide many opportunities for pupils to perform and demonstrate their musicality. Our highly enriched, 'glittering' curriculum is based on strong artistic approaches to curriculum design, robust subject knowledge, and an exceptional commitment to ensuring that every child's needs are met. We promote a positive, energetic, and caring atmosphere in which children feel safe and secure and want to come to school. We are dedicated to equality and opportunity where all children and adults are respected. Knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values are developed to prepare the children for their next stage of learning and enable them to be successful in their community. We expect everyone to develop and show a sense of responsibility and self-discipline whether alone, together, at work, or play and promote positive behavior management strategies. The school buildings are constantly updated to ensure pupils are offered the very latest learning environments. We have a suite of dedicated music rooms, a library, design technology, and cookery rooms, and a well-equipped Mac suite. Our two playgrounds have a range of challenging play structures, table tennis, an astroturfed court, and a new 'Air Gym'. Our Burbage building has a covered veranda that children are free to use for reading and play and a 'secret garden' maintained and developed by pupils. Outstanding learning, within a glittering curriculum, where everyone matters. At Dulwich Hamlet Junior School all pupils are provided with outstanding learning experiences that lead to consistently outstanding levels of pupil achievement. We follow an 'enriched' National Curriculum, ensuring that all government standards are met whilst offering a wide range of experiences to extend pupils' understanding of themselves and their world. All children take part in regular class assemblies and our Christmas performance. Children in our ensembles and choir perform concerts both in and outside of school throughout the year, and Year 6 pupils take part in original drama production in the summer term. We offer a wide range of extracurricular after-school clubs for pupils throughout the year, ranging from different types of sports and dance to art activities, cookery, and even a magic club. All year groups enjoy a range of visits to galleries, museums, theatres, and parks. In Year 5 children enjoy a residential adventure trip to Swanage Bay in Dorset, and Year 6 travel to northern France for a week in the spring term. View full school

A very warm welcome to our school. It is a wonderful school where children have fun learning together. We are committed to ensuring our pupils develop into confident, independent life-long learners. We provide a warm, caring environment where we nurture the individual talents of our pupils. We offer an exciting creative curriculum to engage children in their learning, encouraging self-belief. Our Vision for St Michael in the Hamlet Community Primary School is to provide a welcoming, stimulating environment, where children can develop into confident, independent, lifelong learners. Provide a safe, secure, and stimulating learning environment. We will do this by Following rules for our safety. Supporting and encouraging everyone. Being good role models. Being creative. Trying new things and not be scared to be ambitious. Promote high standards of behavior. We will do this by: Having good manners at all times. Leading by example. Respecting others and our school. Being proud of our school and who we are. Encourage children in their learning and encourage self-belief. We will do this by Motivating each other and ourselves. Listening to people at all times. Being enthusiastic and happy. Going to bed early. Being positive. Having dreams and ambitions. Forest School at St Michael in the Hamlet offers a unique hands-on outdoor natural learning experience on our grounds that compliments both the school’s ethos and curriculum. We use a holistic approach in a natural woodland setting to focus on building positive personal attributes such as self-confidence, independence, and self-esteem enabling our children to become independent, innovative, and inspired learners. Our outdoor environment gives us a unique place that we use in a fun and challenging way, where learners may choose to follow a suggested activity or to pursue their ideas so they can further their development and practice new skills. Learners are offered the opportunity to work independently or with others use tools, make dens, explore, create, investigate and experience campfires. At St. Michael in the Hamlet Primary School, we believe that sport plays an important part as it contributes to the health and well-being of our children. Sporting excellence and participation, alongside strong cultural opportunities, go hand in hand with academic standards. Our school has achieved The National Sport England 'Gold Athletics Award' every year for the past 6 years which continues our proud record in this sport. In 2013/14 our Years 3 and 4 Indoor Athletics Squad became Liverpool Champions. At the same time, our Years 5 and 6 Indoor Athletics Squad also became Liverpool Champions. A Very successful season. Our St. Michael in the Hamlet Creative Curriculum works for hand in hand with the 2014 Primary National Curriculum. We teach through a carefully planned thematic approach, valuing a broad and balanced curriculum that gives children the opportunities to achieve their potential in all subject areas. We have designed our curriculum to build on children’s prior learning over time, linking key concepts across subjects as well as developing a breadth of subject knowledge. Topics are designed to support children’s natural curiosity and stimulate their creativity. Topics begin with a ‘hook’ or ‘opening event’ and finish with a ‘final celebration’. Trips and outings are central to the children’s learning. In addition to this, they will have a series of memorable learning experiences, which may include inspirational speakers, STEM workshops, LJMU dance students, global students, topic-themed days, and themed weeks. Some subjects may be taught discreetly, such as English and mathematics. Other subjects may be taught as part of a topic, for example, they may learn history alongside their geography, or science alongside their design technology. Where possible the links have been made from their topic work to maths and English to enable pupils to apply skills in different contexts. Our curriculum promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, philosophical, and physical development of our pupils. The children experience these through a wide range of subjects and opportunities such as Physical Education (PE), Religious Education (RE), Philosophy for Children (P4C), Rights Respecting School Agenda (RRSA), mindfulness, forest school and personal, social health education (PHSSE). We are proud of our wider opportunities and the range of after-school clubs on offer, from magic to dodge ball to e-cadets. We end our academic year with a ‘summer festival’ to display our pupils’ creative talents celebrating our diverse array of wider opportunities such as singing, brass, drumming, and violin. View full school