Chestnut class (Year 2) is taught by Mrs Long with Mrs Horne.

Meet the Teacher 2024

what are your children learning KS1 Spring 2

what are your children learning KS1 Spring 1

Welcome to Birch class! Birch class (Year 1) is taught by Miss Johnson with learning support assistant Miss Smith. Miss Cowley (HLTA) supports KS1.

Meet the teacher presentation Birch

what are your children learning KS1 Spring 2

what are your children learning KS1 Spring 1 

Please watch our virtual tours! This virtual tour has been made to give new parents a chance to see inside our school.

Reception information for parents

Aycliffe Drive Primary School will provide for all staff and pupils the opportunities and support to be able to be successful and to cherish our school.

• Our educationally inclusive school will be one in which the learning, achievements, attitudes and well being of all members of the school community matter. Inclusion is paramount to us and will characterise our aims and how we perform.
• Our school will provide a challenging, broad, exciting and personalised curriculum which will actively encourage, motivate and develop the talents of everyone in school.
• Our school will actively promote pupil participation via the principles of a Values Based Education, Leadership roles, active Pupil Council and cross age Buddy Groups. Pupil voice at Aycliffe Drive is crucial and all pupils will be given the opportunity to take responsibility and be encouraged to make a positive contribution to their learning, school, and the wider society.
• Our school is committed to being a healthy and safe place. Everyone recognises that investing in emotional, mental and physical health and providing a safe, secure environment enhances the performance and achievements of all pupils and staff.
• Our school will support our pupils in gaining the knowledge and skills required to keep themselves safe and healthy and to thrive in their future
• There is a culture of life-long learning at the heart of our school. We believe that a mainly distributive style of leadership increases the capacity for us to grow in an authentic manner.
• The school will have a distinctive and shared ethos of achievement where relationships between staff, pupils, parents, governors and the community are not only strengthened but nurtured. The school will be the hub of the local community. To achieve this the school is taking part in a Parent Partnership project.
• Our school will ensure that all learning takes place within a vibrant, stimulating and quality environment which is enhanced through the provision of imaginative resources.

Aycliffe Drive is a school where all our pupils matter to us.

Aycliffe Drive is a ‘can do’ school for all where every child matters.  We strongly believe that every child is unique and therefore brings different experiences, skills and ideas into the classroom.  This in turn influences how they and others around them learn.  We would like all children to achieve their very best in all areas of school life.

When looking to the future, our vision is to ensure that Aycliffe Drive continues to be recognised as having a caring, nurturing environment and as a strongly performing school.

We have the drive and determination to be the best we possibly can be and all staff have outstanding aspirations on behalf of all pupils in their care.  For our children the outcomes both academically and as a well-rounded citizen are equally important. We do this by promoting a positive growth mindset, lifelong learning and we encourage everyone to have a love of acquiring knowledge and skills. We strive for this by consistently delivering very good levels of attainment and achievement in all areas of the curriculum.

Our curriculum has been redesigned subject by subject with the intention of making important links, broadening horizons and widening cultural capital. This will empower children to be curious about the world around them. We firmly believe that reading is the ‘master skill’. Our systematic teaching of reading gives our children the confidence and life-long love of reading.

A huge emphasis is placed on developing our children’s physical and mental well being.  We also provide pupils and staff with the confidence, knowledge and experience to be successful.

We are an outward facing school and work collaboratively and strive to communicate effectively. We aim to provide young people with the experiences they need to develop into confident individuals and responsible citizens who are equipped with the skills to meet the ever-changing demands of 21^st century life in modern Britain.

At Aycliffe Drive, we are a values school. Being a values school creates a strong learning environment that enhances academic achievement and develops students’ social and relationship skills that last throughout their lives. We focus on one value each half term, such as respect, honesty, etc. This can be done in class by the teacher talking to the class about the value, doing a task around the value and/or having an assembly on the value.

Being a one and a half-form entry school means we can take forty-five children in each year group. The children are organised chronologically. In Reception the children are provisionally allocated to one of the two classes. The pattern established on admission means that children will progress through the school with children of their own age, normally in a class with less than a chronological year between them.

The organisation pattern for 1½ forms of entry:

Nursery (Fir) – (15 hour and 30 hours places)

Within each class the teaching and learning will vary from whole class teaching to group work –either independently or under the direction of an adult – and children working individually.

Teachers will group children for some activities using a variety of criteria and work maybe differentiated according to age or the ability of individual children.

Our pattern of organisation allows staff and children to work closely together within their Key stage groups. Planning across a Key stage group facilitates equity in provision and allows staff to share each other’s strengths. We know our children very well and cater for their individuality.

Mrs Halai works as a KS2 writing moderator. This involves her visiting different schools and discussing writing judgements with the teachers at the other schools. Her training is reviewed annually, and this supports us in making sure that we are always evaluating our own writing curriculum correctly.

Aycliffe Drive Primary is a community school, with a nursery and pre-school, serving Grove Hill and the surrounding areas. We have 340 pupils ranging in ages from 3 to 11.

We provide a safe and happy environment where the children can strive to be their very best. The school has a family feel with many ex-pupils choosing to send their own children here.

If parents require a paper copy of any of the information on our website, please contact the school office.