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Cowley St. Laurence, is a co-educational, Church of England primary school and nursery for children aged from three to eleven years. As part of the Frays Academy Trust, we enjoy not only shared resources and expertise with our partner schools but also the freedom to control our budget and adapt our curriculum to serve the best interests of our pupils. Through a combination of high expectations, a carefully tailored creative curriculum as well as a Christian ethos, we strive to provide children with a first-rate education intended to raise aptitude and achievement. Our daily worship provides opportunities for children to develop their relationship with God, nurturing their inherent curiosity about religion, and make well-informed choices about their spirituality. We help our pupils to discover their potential, nurturing their talents and thereby inspiring a love of learning and an attitude of perseverance, ensuring future success. We take pride in celebrating diversity and valuing every individual At Cowley St Laurence Primary School, we are proud to be an inclusive school. We provide high-quality, creative, and challenging education within a secure, caring, and happy environment, where every child experiences a sense of enjoyment and is encouraged to achieve their full potential through a love of learning. Cowley St Laurence is a warm welcoming and supportive school where a great emphasis is placed on all-around personal development, as well as academic progress. As a Church of England Primary School, our aim is that all children grow in the faith of God and our school motto, ' 'helps all of those who are part of Cowley St Laurence to understand this. We also believe that education is a lifelong process and that whatever children learn at Cowley St Laurence will form the building blocks for the rest of their lives. We have built a relevant and carefully constructed curriculum, which takes into account the national requirements and the needs of our community and enables all children to develop, providing opportunities for them to achieve high standards. Cowley St Laurence is part of the LDBS Frays Academy Trust along with three other local primary Schools: St Matthews C.E. Primary School, Laurel Lane Primary School, and St Martin's C.E. Primary School. As part of the Academy, we can develop high-quality teaching and learning to give all our children the best possible opportunities in their primary education. We are committed, as part of the vision of the LDBS Frays Academy Trust, that all children should reach their potential and achieve standards at least in line, and hopefully above national expectations. Cowley St Laurence Nursery is part of the school and the school values and ethos is continued into the Nursery. We believe that the year that children spend in the Nursery is very important and is the start of the children's journey in education. The curriculum is designed to enable all children to develop and achieve. We are proud to be a Church of England school, demonstrating our commitment to ensuring that all children have regular opportunities for reflection and prayer. Explicit Christian values are embedded across all areas of learning, further strengthened through daily worship, and upheld by the entire school community ensures our pupils are ready to enter the world spiritually aware. This only adds to the already high expectations of our pupils, encouraging and allowing them to achieve their potential emotionally, spiritually, academically, and otherwise. At Cowley St. Laurence we strive for every child to feel secure and to achieve his or her full potential, regardless of emotional barriers or additional learning needs. A wide range of support mechanisms is in place to ensure all children can perform at their best. View full school

We believe the years spent in primary education are the most valuable in terms of the development of skills, acquiring the right attitudes towards learning, becoming independent, self-disciplined, and self-motivated learners, and, most importantly, maintaining and building self-esteem to be successful. We aim to ensure that your child achieves all of these through the provision of a caring Christian environment which is safe, warm, and secure and, has access to a broad and balanced curriculum, along with many stimulating and interesting opportunities for your child to develop as an individual. By doing this we ensure that by the time our pupils leave us at the age of eleven they will have the confidence to move on to the next phase of their education knowing that God loves them and with a good idea about what they enjoy, what their strengths are and when and how to ask for help. The Infant School and you, the parents, have been your child’s first and most significant educators, and it is now of paramount importance that we form a partnership to continue and develop those beginnings. For your child to get the most out of school we need, and most importantly your child needs, you to support the school’s values and procedures. Communication, understanding, encouragement, and involvement are crucial for this partnership to be successful. Our visions and values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning and provide an environment that prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens. We want St Laurence Church Junior School to be a good school in which people have confidence. At St Laurence Church Junior School ‘Every Child Matters to God’, and every child is at the heart of all that we do. St Laurence Church Junior School provides high-quality education in a secure, caring, and challenging environment that promotes a love of learning both inside and outside of the classroom. We strive to enable every boy and girl to become a happy, healthy, independent, and well-balanced member of the community so that they are prepared for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences that life may offer them. The ethos of the school is firmly based on the teachings of Jesus Christ commitment, responsibility, respect, love of one another, and most importantly love of Christ himself. We are wholly committed to working with and supporting all those who are involved in the education and support of our pupils. We are dedicated to leading the whole school community towards tolerance, understanding, justice, and sensitivity towards the needs of others, regardless of gender, race, culture, sexuality, disability, and faith. We aim to motivate children to become confident, independent learners with an enthusiasm and love of learning. We also hope to inspire every child to become a respectable, caring, socially competent member of society, equipping them with the skills to adapt to an ever-changing world. View full school

The St Laurence Church schools were founded in 1714. Over the years the schools have expanded to their present three forms of entry, giving a school roll of 270 in the Infant School and 360 in the Junior School. The Junior School moved to its present spacious site in 1964 and the Infant School in 1972. The schools are Voluntary Aided and have a close relationship with the lovely old St Laurence Church. They have a strong sense of Christian purpose, which is reflected in relationships, worship, and general school ethos. Our Aims: We aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum which develops each child spiritually, morally, intellectually, socially, and physically within a Christian environment. We aim to see each child as an individual, made in the image of God, and to address individual needs to help explore talents and fulfill potential. We aim to develop a partnership between home and school and involve parents as actively as possible in the education and welfare of their children. We intend this education to take place in a secure and happy environment, one which will provide the children with the self-esteem and skills necessary for them to take their place successfully as confident, responsible, tolerant, and caring members of society. At St Laurence Church Infant School we set out to work with our families to help our children become thoughtful, caring, and responsible members of society who treat others with respect and tolerance, regardless of background. We promote the basic British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs. Our whole school ethos is built around mutual respect. We are an inclusive school where everyone is valued and has a contribution to make to the school. Children learn that their behaviors affect their rights and those of others. Children are encouraged to respect each other throughout the day and they see this attitude modeled by the adults in the school. As a Church of England school, the Christian faith and its values are an integral part of the children’s day-to-day experiences. Children are taught an understanding of different faiths and beliefs through the RE curriculum. Children within our school with different faiths are encouraged to share their practices and special celebrations. Our curriculum includes learning about a range of cultures to raise children’s awareness of different faiths, beliefs, and ways of life. The curriculum comprises all learning and other experiences that the school plans for the children. It provides opportunities for all children to learn and to achieve and promotes children's spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development. We hope that all of our children will find the curriculum and their school experience interesting and enjoyable and that they will develop a love of learning that will stay with them throughout their education and into adult life. Our values are firmly rooted in the Christian faith and belief. We value all of our children, whatever their background or ability. We expect them to show compassion, consideration, and respect for others in the hope that they will develop into caring and responsible citizens. We encourage truth, honesty, fairness, loyalty, and perseverance. Personal faith and belief is a very individual matter and cannot be taught. However, we do aim to give children a sound understanding of what it is to be a Christian and provide opportunities from which belief and faith may stem. We also provide the opportunity to study other faiths and how those faith communities conduct their religious and spiritual lives. We know that children will enter our school with differing levels of academic, physical, and social development. We aim to cater to different needs, and for each child to achieve success and make progress. That success will be valued whatever the level of achievement. View full school