Ashford Park Primary SchoolInspiring a love for lifelong learning through

Achieving Potential Producing Success (APPS)

CONTEXT:Currently: 655 children on roll30 children in each class.90 children in each year group.

Ashford Park Primary School - Ashford Park 2021 & New to Reception September 2022 (ashford-park.surrey.sch.uk)

Our mission statement is ‘Inspiring a love for lifelong learning’ through our aims of ‘Achieving Potential Producing Success’ (APPS).

Our vision is to develop well rounded, confident and responsible individuals who aspire to achieve their full potential. We will do this by

providing a welcoming, happy, safe and supportive learning environment in which everyone is equal and all achievements are celebrated.

We are proud to have received these awards, working together to demonstrate our inclusive and exciting learning, in partnership with our

parent/carer community for the benefit of our children.

We have:• Fantastic children• Great community• Committed and highly experienced school staff• Challenging, supportive and engaging curriculum• Therapy animals –Storm & Ozzie school dogs and

Blue & Daisy, school rabbits• Highly successful PTA• Reflective and constructive Governing Body• Extensive school grounds• Wide range of lunch and after school clubs• Breakfast, after school and holiday club run by our

external provider ‘KOOSA KIDS’

Day to day essentials – getting to know your children & getting to know APPS.

• In previous years we have found that the following system works well when your children start school, usually from the second week of September:

• Summer born children (April –August) are the first to start

• Spring born children (January –March) second to start

• Autumn born children (September –December) third to start

• All of our Reception children start full time, if you as the parents feel that they are confident and happy to do so.

Inspiring a love for lifelong learning through an exciting and engaging curriculum

We learn through ‘The

framework for the early years

foundation stage’, combined

with Imaginative

Learning Projects which

inspire our cross curricular learning.

Dinosaur PlanetYear 1

Darwin’s DelightYear 6

Burps, bottoms and bileYear 4

Why do squirrels hide their nuts?

Reception

Off with her head!Year 5

ScrumdidlyumptiousYear 3

Working and learning together in partnership

Our children, staff and parents are an integral part

to the APPS learning community.

Emotional health and wellbeing

During these times of significant change and uncertainty, we are proud to have a number of licensed Thrive practitioners, who are ready and able to support individual children as and when required: Home - The Thrive Approach to social and emotional wellbeingOur children also have access to some very special therapy assistants, being Storm and Ozzie, our school dogs, and Blue and Daisy, our school rabbits.

Transition support

• Story time with the teacher: Ashford Park 2021 & New to Reception September 2022

• Parent / carer information sessions throughout the summer and autumn terms

• Face to face opportunities to meet the teachers and support staff through Teams and / or visiting the classroom and / or home visits

• Home School Link Worker –Sam Girvan

• Transition meetings with nurseries, playgroups, childminders • A committed partnership to support your child.

Ashford Park Primary School is a Surrey maintained school:Apply for a place at a primary, infant or junior school - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)

• Applications for Surrey maintained schools open on the 1stNovember 2021

• Online applications close on the 15th January 2022• Surrey Admissions will write/email on 19th April 2022• Parents/Carers to confirm your child’s place by 4th May 2022

Child's birth date Can start school from Can defer entry until Must legally be in full time education by

1/9/2017 -31/12/2017 September 2022 January 2023 January 2023

1/1/2018 -31/3/2018 September 2022 April 2023 April 2023

1/4/2018 -31/8/2018 September 2022 April 2023 September 2023

Next steps

Finding the ‘right school’ for your child is an extremely important decision and we hope that you have found this information, our website and our school video useful to support your decision making.

If you have any further questions please find our contact details:

• Tel:01784 250305• E mail: info@ashford-park.surrey.sch.uk• School website: Ashford Park Primary School - Home (ashford-park.surrey.sch.uk)• School video: Ashford Park Primary School - Ashford Park 2021 & New to Reception September

2022 (ashford-park.surrey.sch.uk)

We wish you every happiness and success and look forward to welcoming you and your child to APPS in September 2022.