Your School: Beaufront First School

"Our school has a caring family feel, valuing each learner as an individual while striving for high standards in all areas."

The school also makes the most of being in the countryside, and the children have plenty of opportunity for outdoor activities with a wooded playing space and a school garden.

The community living around the school is also involved, using the traditional hall at the school and also being invited to to go along to the Christmas shows the school puts on.

But it is not all about tradition and the school is looking to new IT opportunities to improve the children's learning. There are also many extra curricular activities to keep the pupils stimulated, even including ukulele lessons.

Name of school: Beaufront First School

Type of school: First

Main findings of most recent Ofsted report:

"This is an outstanding school. Exemplary leadership by the headteacher and a shared drive and determination by staff and governors to excel in all they do results in pupils reaching very high standards and achieving extremely well. Care, guidance and support are excellent. Each pupil is well known, valued and respected. There is an extremely caring, family atmosphere and very close links with parents and carers." - Ofsted November 2007

How would you describe the school's ethos and values?

Our school has a caring family feel, valuing each learner as an individual while striving for high standards in all areas.

What are the school's main strengths?

High standards and a high degree of parental involvement. We strive to meet the needs of individual learners and we aim to develop learning based on practical experiences wherever possible. The school is in a fabulous rural location with a wooded playing space, spectacular sports field overlooking the Tyne valley and a fantastic school garden.

What areas are the school trying to improve?

We want to Increase community involvement now that we have our two fantastic new classrooms, which have freed up our lovely traditional hall for others to use as well as ourselves. We hope to embed the latest ICT practices, such as the KS2 children using individual electronic notebooks to access their learning. We also aim to have all the older children using the county's learning platform NORTLE to do homework and classwork on their own individual e-learning space.

We aim to continue to improve outcomes for each and every child in our school, and to complement our new classrooms we will be further developing our outdoor provision and grounds with further planting and learning resources.

What extracurricular activities and out of school provision does the school have?
Extra curricular activities include gardening and ukulele lessons. Our out of school provision includes a variety of after school clubs which vary throughout the year. For example, gardening, cookery, maths for children and parents, writing, netball, and a variety of craft clubs.

Most recent A-Level/GCSE/SAT results:

Our SATS results have been consistently higher than the local authority and national averages.

How does the school get involved in the local community?

We support the local community by giving out harvest boxes following our harvest festival in the autumn term. We also invite local residents to our Christmas performances, and we take part and host the local garden produce show in September each year.

What is the school's proudest achievement?

The enthusiastic learners who come happily to school each day!

Beaufront First School pupils on an educational visit