Newbold Verdon Community Primary School

Welcome to Newbold Verdon Community Primary School

Newbold Verdon Primary School and Community Centre is a friendly, happy and welcoming village school, which is inclusive in nature and in action. We care for all our children and offer equal opportunities to enable them to reach their full potential. Every member of our school staff and the Governing Body is focused upon and committed to improving the education and lifelong learning for our children, their families and the wider community. We are proud of our family orientated ethos, which demonstrates understanding and embraces differences in people and communities locally, nationally and globally. The Unit for children with Autism was initially opened in September 1999. It is an integral part of Newbold Verdon Primary School and all staff, governors and children view the Unit and the main part of the school as a whole. It is important to note that these children, legally, have to be included in the National Data for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 SAT's results, league tables and Ofsted reports. This may, on occasions, mean that the reported results do not realistically reflect the standards achieved by pupils within the mainstream school .

Newbold Verdon is a well established co-educational Community Primary School situated at the heart of the village and proud of its links with the local community and the work of the Community Centre. The catchment area is the village of Newbold Verdon, although some of our pupils do come from further afield.

The main school building was opened in 1910. Since then new buildings have been added to provide more modern facilities designed to meet the needs of the new curriculum. We have 13 teaching areas of which 3 are for autistic children, a hall, activity rooms, sensory room, soft play room, kiln room, library, offices, a kitchen and community lounge. The children have access to a computer suite including the internet. Outside facilities include a marked activity playground, outdoor play equipment, sensory garden, large playing field with wooded area and car park.

To open the doors of opportunity and give our children the skills to enable them to access the best possible education we can offer.

Together we will give all our children the educational experiences necessary to fulfil their potential.

We have been extremely fortunate in the past with the tremendous quantity and quality of voluntary help we get at Newbold Verdon Primary School . We are hoping that anyone who has helped in the past will be willing to continue and would also welcome anyone who would like to give some time to helping out. Please let us know if you would like to help, by leaving your name at the office or by telling us in the playground before the beginning of school.

Please may I remind parents that children should not be on school premises before 8.40 a.m. as they are not insured before this time. If you walk to school, please use the pedestrian gate and do not use the vehicle gate if at all possible.

With the children's safety in mind , any parents who have been into the K.S.1 area in the morning, please make sure that a member of staff locks the door behind you when you leave. Also to all parents who use the car park , please make sure that if you are last parent to leave via that gate, please close the gate securely behind you.

We are proud to announce that we now have an e-mail address for parents to use. Office.information@newboldverdon.leics.sch.uk can be used to get in touch with the school. This address will be checked during each school day to retrieve any messages that are sent.

Details of the school uniform is in the school prospectus. We also have a small amount of clothing in the school colours donated as children leave. These items are clean and are ideal for school use. Please let us know if you are interested in having any of these items. They include blue sweatshirts and sweatcardis.