Welcome to Elmhurst Primary School

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 year on year. 

Our staff are highly committed to teaching stimulating and engaging lessons, concentrating on making sure that children acquire all the foundational skills, as well as stretching every child with our rich curriculum. We pride ourselves on our high-quality teaching across all areas of the curriculum but we have developed expertise especially in phonics, Maths, Reading and in Writing.

We take groups of children 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 are developing our playground further by working with OPAL to ensure that all children have access to play in different forms. 

We teach our children good manners and encourage them to contribute to society by taking part in charity fund raising. Our Year 6 Pupil Ambassadors help in the playground and are trained in mediating any conflicts, as well as having a key role to play in managing the playground and the school in general. 

We provide a variety of after school classes and clubs free of charge. We also have tuition after school or on Saturday mornings for children that need it, to make sure that no child slips through the net. We offer breakfast club and wraparound care for working parents. 

We are pleased to have formed a Multi-Academy Trust (New Vision Trust) with four 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.

 

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Strategic Development Priorities for 2025-2026

Enhance engagement, independence and depth of learning across the curriculum with a particular focus on DT, Geography and Music, through: embedding opportunities for drama and oracy alongside practical, hands-on learning developing independence and depth in written recorded work in the foundation subjects, especially in KS1

Enrich our Reading for Pleasure culture through: continuing to develop staff subject knowledge, including refining story time  supporting our least experienced readers to pupils to read more and more often by continuing to build fluency to support enjoyment, providing stimulating reading material (especially when finishing the RWI programme) and implementing interventions for reading for pleasure further developing school-home reading links

Strengthen further our rich offer for pupils with SEND through: continued refinement of planning for pupils who access learning the Nash Wing and in mainstream classes refining assessment systems for SEND pupils rigorous and targeted RWI interventions for SEND pupils.

Nurture pupils’ personal development to support the continued improvement of learning behaviour and attitudes across the school, through: insisting on and explicitly teaching manners and politeness embedding the 5Cs and our new equalities charter  demonstrating positive attitudes towards all protected groups with a focus on race and gender