Sparkwell Primary School Learning to make a difference
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ituated just over a mile outside Plympton, Sparkwell Primary school is in an enviable location with woods on the doorstep, lots of birdsong, clean air and a rural setting. There can’t be many schools where you can hear the lions from the Zoo nearby roaring as you arrive in the morning! We have a purpose built school that we relocated to in 2016 (from the older cramped Victorian school), with modern, airy classrooms and a large playing field. We can take 15 children into Foundation each year and classes from Year 1 to Year 6 have two year groups per class. We have a growing number of families that live within Sparkwell or outlying rural hamlets, but the majority of our children live in the Chaddlewood area of Plympton. We have 98 children in the school across four classes, which enables us to keep a family feel and know all of our families really well. We are a Single Academy Trust, which means we are not part of any large multi academy trusts and can make the
decisions that are right for our children. The school has a headteacher, four class teachers, two office staff, caretaker and cleaner, a school cook and seven teaching assistants (including two forest school leaders). We also have a school dog, Luna the cavapoo! We have a Board of Trustees who are the governors for our school and meet half termly. Children join us from a wide range of pre-school settings and childminders and we have good links with the Little Orchard Montessori Nursery in the village. At the end of Year 6, most of our children move on to Plympton Academy or Ivybridge Community College, but we also have children going onto Heles, the grammar schools or further afield to Totnes or into Plymouth. Since opening as a free school in 2015 we have had two ‘Good’ Ofsted reports - the last in 2019 stated: ‘The school environment is calm and purposeful. During lessons, pupils across the school are focused, respectful and attentive. The innovative curriculum motivates and engages pupils.’
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