Neville's Cross Primary School

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It is my privilege to welcome you to our school website. We pride ourselves in providing children with a rich and varied curriculum, where all children can excel; and this is underpinned by the excellent social and emotional care we provide.

In January 2018, our school celebrated its 110 year anniversary and the opening of our new school nursery. Over the past year our children have also been involved in our inaugural Winter Light Festival; Forest School sessions; charity fundraising; residential visits away; choir competitions and carol singing; enterprise activities; educational visits and visitors; class assemblies; productions; Safety Week and Equality Week.

We competed successfully against other schools in sporting events including several successes at county level and have been awarded the National School Games Mark Award at GOLD level in recognition of our dedication to sport, for the second year running. We are also proud that our children have achieved extremely well academically and continue to enjoy coming to school!

Early this year, we reached our £60,000 fundraising total for our new multi-use games area (MUGA). The MUGA was officially opened in July 2018 by our PTA Chair, Jackie Patrickson, and Chair of Governors, Jenny Search, both who had initiated the fundraising by swimming the English Channel in July 2016 with two other parents, Michael Sykes and Libby Unsworth. Our MUGA has enhanced our PE sessions as we now have a purpose built surface to play sports on; the children also access the MUGA at playtimes. This coming year, we hope to spend our Sports Premium funding on a running track around the school field and our PTA funding will go towards a new climbing frame.

For prospective parents, please view our School Aims, Policies and Performance for an overview of our school. For current parents, visit the Parents section and more frequently-changing information, such as upcoming events in our weekly newsletters, PTA emails and letters to parents.

If you have any questions or concerns or would like to make an appointment, please contact the school office.

Mrs C Ferguson
Acting Head Teacher (September 2018 – August 2020)