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Welcome to Elmhurst Primary School

CEO and Executive Headteacher - Mr Shahed Ahmed OBE

We would like to warmly welcome you to our school. We are a large outstanding primary school in Newham. We care passionately about our children’s education and go the extra mile to help every child reach their full potential. This is reflected in our high SATs exam results.

Our staff are highly committed to teaching stimulating and engaging lessons, concentrating on making sure that children acquire all basic skills, as well as stretching every child with our rich curriculum.

We take groups of children every year to European cities on art residential visits. Our children perform Shakespeare’s plays in local theatres. We train all our children in debating skills and have great success in regular regional competitions. We pride ourselves in our specialist sport and music provision. Our school environment is very smart with a large number of challenging climbing structures.

We teach our children good manners and encourage them to contribute to society by taking part in charity fund raising.

Sukwinder Samra MBE, Headteacher

We provide a variety of after school classes and clubs. We also have free tutoring after school or on Saturday mornings for any child that needs it, to make sure that no child slips through the net.

We are pleased to have formed a Multi-Academy Trust (New Vision Trust) with three other local schools. We work collaboratively with our MAT schools to ensure that our provision for our pupils, staff and local community is of the highest quality. We are also a National Maths Hub - a centre of excellence for mathematics and a DfE English Hub. 

For more information about the London North East Maths hub or New Vision English Hub please click the links below.

 

We currently have nursery places available at our nursery. We are an OFSTED 'Outstanding' school with a fantastic Early Years provision. To apply for a place for your child, please speak to the school office.

 

Strategic Development Priorities for 2024-2025

  • Deliver highly effective teaching & learning through refining:

    • clarity of purpose
    • use of small steps in teaching
    • impactful teacher explanations
    • targeted questioning and feedback including partner talk

  • Fine-tune our approach to writing across the school with a particular focus on small steps in the Writing for Pleasure process and the systematic teaching of spellings from the National Curriculum.

  • Develop a clear vision to further improve outcomes and provision for SEND pupils through:

    • developing a high quality curriculum overview
    • adapting SCERTS and learning planning
    • high quality RWI tutoring
    • optimising quality interactions

  • Strengthening an ethos of respect and tolerance for the whole school community through improving attitudes towards all protected groups with a focus on disability and race.