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At EWPS we believe that every child has the potential to succeed. Our highly effective staff team is dedicated to providing a safe and caring environment where children can develop a sense of independence, responsibility, and self-confidence to enable them to reach their full potential. Our curriculum provision, including after-school clubs, has been designed to ensure children are engaged and interested in their learning and enjoy a breadth of experiences to foster an eagerness to become life-long learners. We are fortunate to have excellent facilities to support this approach including a dance studio, library, market garden, sensory room, and pond to name but a few! ‘Learning to grow and succeed together’ is the vision we all ascribe to and underpins all aspects of our school community we believe every individual has a responsibility towards ensuring our Ellen Wilkinson ‘family’ is successful and our values show how we do this. At Ellen Wilkinson Primary School we expect everyone in our community to embody our core values. To do this everyone has the right and the responsibility to be: Inspired and inspire others. Respected and respect everyone. Successful and help others to succeed. Resilient and help others to develop resilience. Heard and cared for. To achieve our vision of ‘Learning to Grow and Succeed Together’, we have adopted a set of core values around which school development is planned. These values are a result of consultation with all members of our school community. As part of our teaching of our Discovery Curriculum, we learn about British and international History, and how some countries are run. We learn about rules in sport/games as part of our PE lessons and have visits from the police and fire brigade to learn about rules in our community. We also have a project in year 5 which links with the Royal Courts of Justice. Also, at the start of each academic year, all classes from years 1 -6 complete a British unit that covers the rule of law as well as how our democratic system works. Ellen Wilkinson Primary ensures every individual achieves their best through high expectations for all, which focus on confidence, creativity, and care. Through our teaching of PSHE/Citizenship and we develop an understanding of human and children’s rights and responsibilities. This is an integral aspect of life at Ellen Wilkinson Primary School. We expect our learners to be respectful, confident, and positive individuals. We encourage every child to care about and have respect for, their learning, each other, and our environment. By being socially and emotionally intelligent, understanding about themselves and each other, our children will make the right choices and experience positive relationships now and in the future. We teach children the values of their own opinions as well as those of others and demonstrate this through weekly performance assemblies where classes present on a variety of diverse topics to their peers, school staff, parents, and governors. Examples of this include taking pupils out on educational visits to different places of worship and following the Newham Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education that educates pupils about all the main belief systems in the UK. Our SEND provision at Ellen Wilkinson Primary School provides support for pupils who for one reason or another have barriers to learning and participation in the school curriculum. We recognize that pupils learn at different rates and that there are many factors affecting achievement, including ability, emotional state, age, and maturity. We believe that all our pupils including those with SEND have a right to a broad and balanced curriculum to achieve their best becoming confident and independent individuals developing the skills to make a successful transition to secondary education and beyond. View full school

EWS is a wonderfully diverse school, a microcosm of multi-cultural London with students and staff from a range of different backgrounds, faiths, and cultures. We have gained a variety of awards recognizing our strengths in areas from our success in adding value (Specialist Schools Award) to Investor in People (since 1999). We are particularly proud of the SSAT Gold Award for Cultural Diversity, the assessors noting that “the ethos of the school is an outstanding feature” and that there is “a highly cohesive and mutually supportive community where everyone feels valued and enjoys learning”. Our recent Ofsted report also recognized the girls’ outstanding personal development and well-being. The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls exists to provide the best possible education for all the girls that come here. The School is dedicated to providing excellent learning experiences for all pupils. Every pupil matters to us. All the resources of the School are focused on this end. Our School has a philosophy that everyone, irrespective of age, has an infinite potential for learning and a capacity for change. Within our school, there is an atmosphere that ensures that each person's worth and dignity are recognized. The School particularly values all adults that contribute to our pupils' achievements. The School prizes quality in all aspects of its members' lives. Girls leaving the School will have achieved outstanding personal success and have developed a love of learning. They will wish to continue education for life. Equally, they will leave confident and self-aware, and ready to take their place in society. The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls was formed in 1974 as a comprehensive school for girls. It was the result of an amalgamation of four schools: Ealing Girls' Grammar, Wood End, The Grange, and St Ann's Secondary Modern. It was named by the London Borough of Ealing after Miss Ellen Wilkinson. Ellen Wilkinson was the first female Minister for Education in the Post War Labour Government - she is remembered as the MP for Jarrow who led the Jarrow Marches to London to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed in the North East following the closure of the shipyard. She also introduced free school milk and raised the school leaving age to 15. The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls is Ealing's only all-girls comprehensive school. We currently take pupils from ages 11 to 18. In 1991, under the LEA's reorganization plans, it was proposed that we would become an 11-18 school in September 1992. It was as a response to these plans that the School sought Grant Maintained Status. This was accepted and we became Grant Maintained in April 1992. The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls was one of five Grant Maintained Secondary Schools in Ealing. In September 1999 we became a Foundation School. Pupils were admitted at the age of 12 years ie. into Year 8 until 1993. In that year, along with all Ealing Schools, we applied to the Secretary of State for a significant change of character to admit girls aged 11 (Year 7). This came into effect in September 1993 when the School had a double intake - 200 Year 8 pupils and 200 Year 7 pupils. In September 1999 we were granted Beacon Status. In 2002 we were awarded Science and Mathematics Specialist College Status. This award enabled us to develop our curriculum, extend and enhance our facilities, and continue to grow both in size (over 1400 students) and as a successful school. View full school