Our Mission
To deliver our goal of raising the aspiration of every child we focus on 4 areas. We call them our Learning Foundations and they drive everything we do. They are:
A rich and engaging curriculum
Excellent teaching standards
Giving our children a voice
Collaborating with others
A rich and engaging curriculum
We strongly believe that children learn best when they enjoy what they’re doing and their subjects are rich and varied.
We work hard to make their learning challenging, interesting and fun therefore we regularly expose them to people and things they’ve never seen or experienced before. For example, whole school theme days, theatre visits, outdoor adventure days and residentials as well as arrange of inspiring and influential visitors.
Giving our children a voice
It takes confidence for a child to find their voice and speak. While some will speak at any given opportunity, (as their parents or guardians will no doubt confirm) others need more support and encouragement.
Our School pupil groups (Sports, Attendance Communication and Grounds Team) along with our interactive assemblies and performances are designed to help our children develop build communication and confidence skills in an engaging way and at a pace that’s comfortable for them. We also have:-
- Inclusion areas for small group work and meetings
- Library
- Parents’ room
- Disabled toilets
Excellent teaching standards
Our teaching staff, under the leadership of our Head Teacher Hayley Marshall, are devoted to the development of each child in our care.
Good teaching on a daily basis, with well structured lessons and high expectations with regards attendance all combine to give our children the skills they need for their future lives.
Through effective questioning by our teachers and the wider education support team our pupils broaden and deepen their thinking, and increase their desire to learn and enquire more deeply. Showing them how to review, evaluate and edit their own work is a key part of this.
Collaborating with others
Whilst we all enjoy the close knit and inclusive feel we have at Iveson, we don’t want our children to learn in a bubble. Our collaboration with other schools in our Trust, guest speakers, local businesses, parents and even older siblings combine to broaden a child’s horizon and expose them to ideas and things they might not otherwise see. It’s an important part of their learning. For example, we have signed up to a city wide scheme called ‘Active Schools’ to ensure our PE and sport are superb.
A Day in the Life of Iveson Primary School
Tour of Iveson
We believe our children deserve the very best learning environment so we have a rolling programme of maintenance and larger-scale developments to ensure this.
Don’t just take our word for it though, why not take a look for yourself with our Virtual Tour – to start the tour click the image below.
Our Facilities
The facilities we have for educating young children are second to none.
Here are just a few.
Spacious school building set in beautiful mature grounds, with extensive views of the surrounding area
Four play areas including a designated, secure and well- resourced area specifically for Early Years
Extensive playing fields, sports pitches and a tyre park
A secret garden with sheep fold and school allotment
General purpose hall with large screen and projector
Separate large dining room and our own kitchen
Inclusion areas for small group work
Meeting rooms
Speech and language and nurture rooms
Two libraries
The Aviary - a new, specialist provision specifically for children on the Autistic spectrum
“The school provides carefully thoughtout wider curriculum offers for pupils, so they are prepared for life in modern Britain. Choices made by the school through the curriculum, as well as the books and resources shared in classes, ensures that pupils have a strong understanding about others who may be different from themselves.”
Ofsted Report October 2024
Ofsted Reports
It is brilliant to see our success and progress recognised by Ofsted and to read their wonderful comments in black and white.
We hope you will read the report in full and celebrate the success of our amazing school. We are very proud! We are not sitting on our laurels though. We are working hard to raise standards further across all areas.
"The school has high aspirations for its pupils. The curriculum is ambitious and adapted so that these expectations are realised. All pupils achieve well. Opportunities and experiences provided by the school ensure that pupils succeed not just academically, but as part of their wider social, emotional and physical development."
Ofsted Report October 2024
Parent Feedback
Senior Leadership Team
Early Years Teaching Staff
Teaching Staff KS1 & KS2
Office Team
Support Staff
The Aviary Staff
School Comparison Tool
Please use the link opposite/below to gain access to the Government’s School Comparison Tool, where you can compare Iveson Primary School to other similar schools.
Our Governors
The Governing Body has a very important part to play in how we run our school.
Governance Statement for the Iveson School Governing Body
The governing body has three core strategic functions:
Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
- Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the preformance management of staff;
- Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.
The day to day management of the school is the responsibility of the Head teacher and senior leadership team.
The governing body also ensures that the school complies fully with statutory safeguarding procedures. All staff have signed a record to confirm they have read Part 1 of the DfE statutory guidance “Keeping Children Safe in Education”. The governing body has familiarised itself with the document and are working with the safeguarding lead in school to complete the annual safeguarding audit.
The remit of the governing body is to help monitor the top three school development priorities:
- to formulate a clear vision and strategic three year plan for the future of the school involving all stakeholders
- to continue to narrow the gap against national standards in order to secure combined age related expectations and demonstrate accelerated progress over time
- to embed differentiation, pace and independence in all lessons to ensure best use is made of all learning time.
We have 9 Governors who meet six times per year as a full group. We also have a Joint Review Group. A key aspect of the governors role is to review the schools progress and look in detail at attainment and progress data for the children. In order to do this governors receive reports from external consultants, the Headteacher and Subject Leads and visit the school regularly reporting on their key areas.
Governors come from all walks of life and we have a range of governors including Academics, business people, staff and parents.
Parent governors are really important as they can represent the views of the community we serve. If you have any concerns about the school then your parent representatives can put these forward on your behalf.
Additional details: Governors Roles & Responsibilities
Details of Iveson Primary Governor Terms
Details of Annual Governance Statement 2023-2024
