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7 Schools
Abbey Hulton Primary School
Abbey Hulton is single form entry school, serving the Abbey Hulton community. The school is situated in an area of high deprivation and the percentage of children eligible for Pupil Premium Funding is considerably higher than the national. The school provides a food bank and offers a low cost breakfast club to support families. There are significant safeguarding needs in the community with many families receiving intensive school support as well as Social Care intervention. The percentage of SEND pupils is above the national average and the school runs many interventions, including a Nurture Group for KS1 and KS2 children. The percentage of Ethnic Minority and EAL pupils is low but has gradually risen over the past few years.
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At Abbey Hulton, we are fully committed to ensuring that our school develops life-long and successful learners through our ‘ASPIRE’ values of Awareness, Success, Perseverance, Independence, Respect and Enjoyment. There is a strong nurturing ethos and expectations of pupil behaviour and attitudes are high. Pupils are encouraged to develop a growth mindset as part of their learning and experience in our school.
Abbey Hulton supports and promotes positive mental wellbeing and works in partnership with the NHS on the Trailblazer Project.
Etruscan Primary School
Etruscan Primary School is an inclusive school at the heart of the community. We are a larger than average primary school with 465 children from Nursery to Year 6. Our ‘Reach’ values of Respect, Enjoyment, Achievement, Collaboration and Honesty are at the centre of everything we do.
We have a nurturing approach to ensure that all our children can access our exciting and creative Learning Challenge Curriculum whilst also developing key skills in English, maths, science and computing. Our spiritual, moral, social and cultural provision is very strong and we encourage every child to ‘Reach for the Stars’.
The school is situated in an area of high deprivation in the centre of Stoke on Trent. We have children from a wide variety of backgrounds, cultures and religions, speaking many different languages. This means we have a global school family who celebrate our similarities and differences and who are proud of our school.
Forest Park Primary School
Forest Park Primary School is a culturally diverse, larger than average two-form entry school, with approximately 466 pupils on roll from Nursery - Year 6. The school is located in an area of Stoke On Trent which is one of the highest ranked on the deprivation index, making our school population very vulnerable. The school has a higher than average number of Pupil Premium pupils.
The school population includes 18 ethnic groups; with 35 different languages spoken by the families. Our core purpose is to improve the prospects of our pupils by providing a high quality education which meets the needs of each individual child, allowing them to reach their full potential.
We aim to build the skills, knowledge and positive attitudes necessary to help all of our pupils to become responsible, respectful and tolerant British citizens of the future. The school firmly puts the needs of its pupils first-striving to ensure that all pupils at Forest Park feel happy and safe. This is reflected in its design of the curriculum, which is designed with knowledge at its heart, and aims to develop children’s understanding of the world around them. The Forest Park Primary curriculum is customised to meet the local needs of its learners, achieving this through the celebrations of the heritage of the pupils and by building a Cultural Capital to help prepare the children for the next stage of their education.
Kemball School
Kemball relocated into a purpose built special school in September 2013 with 57 pupils. Historically, all pupils had severe learning difficulties or profound, multiple learning difficulties.
There is now a growing number of pupils with moderate difficulties. From September 2021 we have 226 students aged 3-19 years who present with an extremely diverse range of needs, PMLD, SLD, MLD. Many of the pupils that attend Kemball have complex medical needs. We currently have 22 classes, 6 of which cater for pupils who have PMLD. Our post 16 provision is for pupils who have complex needs.
Pupils are grouped according to those working at subject specific levels and those working at non subject specific levels of attainment. Currently KS3/KS4 (discounting our PMLD population) are predominantly, what we consider to be our more able learners. Last short Ofsted inspection took place on 18th October 2017 judged that the school continued to be good. Outreach work is delivered in the form of specific, specialist support for mainstreams schools.
Oakhill Primary School
Oakhill Primary School is a two-form entry, 3-11 school with 407 pupils on roll, including Nursery. The percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals is 44%. 19% of pupils are identified as requiring SEND support, 20% are from ethnic minority backgrounds and 14% of pupils have English as a second language.
Oakhill is a nurturing school, which develops the whole child; we want every child to thrive and achieve academically and personally. We have a broad and balanced curriculum which is accessible to all. The curriculum exploits the use of wider opportunities to enrich children’s learning and to support their academic and personal development. Forest Schools, Now Press Play technology, visits and visitors are all used effectively to support learning, to enhance the curriculum and to engage children in order to raise aspirations.
We have a dedicated pupil and family support team who support children and their families to help to overcome barriers to learning. In addition to this, staff use emotion coaching to help children to selfregulate their emotional and behavioral well-being.
Contact: Katie Hawthorne (Assistant Headteacher KS2 Lead) kharris@oakhillprimaryschool.org.uk
St Mark’s CE Primary School
St Mark’s is a nurturing and inclusive Church of England Primary School welcoming children of all faiths and those with no faith. The school family consists of many different ethnicities, languages and cultures, all of which are uniquely celebrated. The school’s mission statement of ‘Loving to Learn, Learning to Love’ encompasses the school’s moral purpose in ensuring that all children respect one another, their education and their community.
The school values are at the heart of all that we do and are based on RESPECT. The RESPECT acronym stands for: responsibility, equality, spirituality, perseverance, enthusiasm, commitment and trust. These values are referred to on a daily basis to encourage, praise and develop our pupils as role models and good citizens.
St Mark’s provides high quality teaching and learning for all students including those who speak English as an additional language. The school has carefully designed an enriching question based curriculum, which aims to develop and build upon children’s prior knowledge and learning over time. This curriculum meets the needs of all learners, who arrive at St Mark’s with a variety of life experiences.
The school is a large inner city primary school with 465 pupils on roll, ranging from nursery to year 6. The nursery class is situated within Thomas Boughey Children’s Centre, approximately one mile from the main primary school site.
Watermill School
Watermill School has been carefully designed to provide for a wide range of pupils’ needs to be addressed through educational, social, physical and emotional growth for the age range 3 to 16.
This includes a wide range of specialist classrooms, halls, outdoor spaces and a hydrotherapy pool. We continue to prepare our pupils for the wider world by offering part time college courses and accreditations that are relevant to our pupils’ futures whilst ensuring we give the younger pupils the building blocks to set them on the right track for a successful life when they have left Watermill School behind.
All children have an Education Health and Care Plan. The range of needs includes Moderate, Severe, Physical and Multiple Learning Difficulties, Complex Behaviours and Autism. Our specialist INSPIRE Pupil Referral Unit provides primary aged pupils with behavioural difficulties an opportunity to develop the skills needed to return to mainstream schools or to be assessed to move on to other special school provision.
We have 220 children on roll. Children are educated within 5 distinct Learning Pathways; EYFS, Sensory, Communication, Primary and Secondary. We operate a flexible system and pupils are grouped according to need rather than by year group.
