CHULMLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL
- CHULMLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL, BEACON ROAD
EX18 7AA CHULMLEIGH, DEVON
Phone: 01769 580535
Fax: 0176-958-0535
E-mail: Send messagewww.chulmleigh-primary.devon.sch.uk
Short profile:
Our purpose is to give children - in a happy, caring environment - an education which enables them to achieve their full potential and take a positive role in the life of our school and their community. We expect all of our school to have a sense of involvement by sharing our aims.
Aims-
To offer a broad and balanced curriculum to ensure that every child’s potential is maximised and each achieves to the best of their ability.
To create a community which fosters and develops tolerance, responsibility, equality of opportunity and respect for others.
To prepare children for their place in the world by fostering motivation, self-discipline, self-esteem and independence.
To encourage a sense of responsibility within the community beyond the school by helping children develop a sense of citizenship.
To involve parents in their children’s education through a partnership with governors and staff.
Detailed description:
Our school is a small, thriving rural school housed in a modern building. It has a hall where the whole school can assemble, separate playgrounds for infants and juniors and a large playing field where children are activly encouraged to play co-operatively with a wide variety of equipment. Play spaces are well supervised. There are several lunchtime activities including tennis, football, cycling, netball and quiet areas, such as the Millennium Garden where children can relax. There are quiet areas in which to work outside of the classrooms.
Our butterfly garden and wildlife pond area are used as outdoor classrooms, bringing science, geography and art lessons to life.
There is a well equipped library and a computer suite with 15 PC's all networked and with Internet access, where whole or half class teaching can take place. There are 36 mini wireless laptops which can be used by whole classes .KS2 has discrete IT lessons once a week and also use the computers within Literacy, Numeracy, History, Science and Art lessons. KS1 have access to the computer suite as well as having their own PC's within the class.
Chulmleigh Primary school is federated with Chulmleigh Community College, which is adjacent to our school. We have a single governing body whose aim is to enhance the learning opportunities for pupils from both schools. We enjoy close co-operation and liaison between staff and students. We share many of the community college facilities, which include 4 tennis courts, flood-lit multi use games area, public library, resource and information centre and have use of the 'state of the art' sports complex containing basketball courts, cricket nets, 4 badminton courts and a cardiovascular fitness suite.
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