Description
St Thomas Church of England Primary School, Lydiate is a State Primary School for kids aged 4 to 11 (Gender - Mixed )
Underpinning the school are the strong, caring relationships. All the children and staff know each other well, and every individual plays a vital part in the life of the school. They believe that children, families and staff, who are secure and happy, are confident to question, explore and learn. Through our rich and balanced Lighthouse Curriculum, they aim to broaden horizons and open doors to all that life has to offer, allowing the children to experience life in all its fullness. With the rigorous and progressive knowledge-based curriculum, the pupils will leave St Thomas’ with the extensive knowledge and thinking skills needed to enable them to lead fulfilling lives with the highest of aspirations. The ethos of excellence permeates the whole curriculum, inspiring the pupils to be the very best version of themselves.
Facilities
The St Thomas' Lighthouse Curriculum
Through collaboration with our school community, they have developed our Lighthouse Curriculum which has six main strands: Excellence, Experiences and Life Skills, Celebrating Diversity, Christian Values, Reading and Vocabulary and Knowledge Rich & Academic. Through the rich and balanced academic curriculum, we aim to broaden horizons and open doors to all that life has to offer, allowing the children to experience life in all its fullness. With a rigorous and progressive knowledge-based curriculum, the pupils will leave St Thomas’ with the extensive knowledge and thinking skills needed to enable them to lead fulfilling lives with the highest of aspirations. The ethos of excellence permeates the whole curriculum, inspiring the pupils to be the very best version of themselves. Reading and vocabulary are at the heart of our curriculum, enabling the pupils with the keys needed to unlock their future successes.
Features
Things to note
Forest Schools
At St. Thomas' all the children take part in Forest Schools and we are pleased to have a Level 3 Forest School Practitioner, who leads our sessions. Forest School is a child-centred inspirational learning process, that offers opportunities for holistic growth through regular sessions. It is a long-term program that supports play, exploration and supported risk taking. It develops confidence and self-esteem through learner inspired, hands-on experiences in a natural setting. The process helps and facilitates more than knowledge-gathering, it helps learners develop socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically and intellectually. It creates a safe, non-judgemental nurturing environment for learners to try stuff out and take risks. Forest School inspires a deep and meaningful connection to the world and an understanding of how a learner fits within it. The approach to risk means that learners constantly expand on their abilities by solving real-world issues, building self-belief and resilience. We believe that risk is more than just potential for physical harm, but a more holistic thing, there are risks in everything we do, and we grow by overcoming them. Forest School therefore, helps participants to become, healthy, resilient, creative and independent learners.
SEND
At St Thomas’ they value all God’s children and ensure that those with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) get the support they need to make excellent progress in a caring and fully inclusive environment, ensuring they experience life in all its fullness. The SEND provision provides opportunities for pupils with learning difficulties and/or disabilities to access a rich, balanced and progressive knowledge-based curriculum specifically tailored to their needs. They do this by providing the pupils with Quality First teaching approaches which give them the self-confidence needed in order to maximize their potential and develop skills to work independently. The curriculum inspires the pupils to be the very best versions of themselves which enables them to set high aspirations for the future.
Extra Curricular
Please check the school website link for details.
6.40 miles
