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Welcome to Widcombe Infant School . Our aim is to provide an excellent education for individual children. It is fundamental that children are happy and secure at school, so that effective learning can take place within a positive, stimulating environment. Each child is treated as an individual with their unique talents and needs. A mixture of teaching syles is used.

 

We are a small school located in Bath near to the city centre. We are a mixed infant community school with ages from 4 -7 years. The school consists of 6 classes, two in Reception, two in Year 1 and two in Year 2, totalling approximately 180 children. All classes are kept to 30 children and the number of hours per week of lesson time is 21 hours.

 

 

  

The school has achieved Investors in People, Basic Skills Quality Mark and in March 2002 was invited to become a Beacon School   to share good practice with other schools. The school has been awarded Artsmark Gold in recognition of its creative work, Active Mark as a result of its work within Physical Education, National Healthy Schools Accreditation and ICT Mark. These demonstrate the school's commitment to providing a broad education, so developing children socially, creatively, physically and academically. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The school has achieved Investors in People, Basic Skills Quality Mark and in March 2002 was invited to become a Beacon School to share good practice with other schools. The school has been awarded Artsmark Gold in recognition of its creative work, Active Mark as a result of its work within Physical Education, National Healthy Schools Accreditation and ICT Mark. These demonstrate the school's commitment to providing a broad education, so developing children socially, creatively, physically and academically

 

Children enjoy a wide range of activities in the playground, including using the adventure playground equipment, the castle, the maze and the senses garden. The school has its own allotments to grow vegetables and flowers. The environmental area contains a pond, orchard and meadow. 

Our Computer Suite has 10 computers for the children to use. We take half a class at a time in there for direct ICT learning whilst the other half class learn French with Mrs Peacock. After half an hour they swap over. Every child from Reception to Year 2 has regular time in the suite each week. Staff use the projector and interactive whiteboard to model lessons , skills, programmes etc. In addition groups of children from each class work in the ICT Suite with Mrs. Beech to extend their learning in a range of curriculum areas using ICT as a tool for learning.

 

 

 

Parents are the first and most important educators of children. Parents are warmly welcomed into the school to work with the children, with activities such as reading, ICT, cooking, sewing, art activities, numeracy games, literacy games etc.

Mrs Peacock teaches French to all classes and she extends this to incorporate languages spoken by children in the class. In addition children learn about the French culture and we have a link with a partner school in France. Children learn French through songs, stories, topic vocabulary, drama, key vocabulary etc.