BADSHOT LEA VILLAGE INFANT SCHOOL
BADSHOT LEA ROAD BADSHOT LEA FARNHAM SURREY GU9 9LE

TELEPHONE: 01252 320883 FAX: 01252 320891
E-mail: info@badshot-lea.surrey.sch.uk
Website : www.badshot-lea-school.org.uk

“Badshot Lea is a very special school, which is at the heart of our community and feels very safe, warm and welcoming. Our children love it”. So commented one parent, but reflected the views of many.
Ofsted Inspection Report May 2008.
 

Dear Parents

On behalf of the children, staff and Governors at Badshot Lea Village Infant School, I would like to welcome you, and your child, to our school.

I hope you will find this booklet informative. It contains our basic philosophy and curriculum outline, together with details of the many ways in which you can become involved in the busy life of our school. Should you wish to discuss any matter concerning the School, do please contact me, or one of the Governors. We will be only too pleased to help.

We see our School as a happy, exciting place to be, where learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience. We look forward to working in close partnership with you, as parents, to provide the very best possible care and educational opportunities for your child.
 

Yours sincerely


Jan Weir MA, B.Ed
Headteacher

Welcome to our School

Badshot Lea Village Infant School is a non-denominational Infant School
catering for girls and boys from four to seven years of age. The School is maintained
by the Education Department of Surrey County Council.

We are located on a large site at the centre of the thriving village of Badshot Lea.
The School was opened in 1895 and is listed as a building of local historical interest.
Next to the main school is a purpose built classroom, and we have specialist facilities for children with disabilities.

Within the grounds we have a quiet garden with seating, an activity play area
with climbing apparatus, a spacious playground with markings, a large playing field, a play area for our youngest children, an enclosed Millennium Garden and a beautiful sensory area.

Close links exist between Badshot Lea Village Infant School, St George’s Church and the village community of Badshot Lea. The School has a happy and nurturing environment, where learning is always intended to be an enjoyable experience.

“Badshot Lea is a very special school, which is at the heart of our community and feels very safe, warm and welcoming. Our children love it”. So commented one parent, but reflected the views of many.
Ofsted Inspection Report May 2008.

 Vision and Aims

Our Vision and Aims for the future

Aiming High
In our school we will always try to do our best.

Vision

Badshot Lea Village Infant School is committed to offering education of the highest quality to each child. The school will provide a rich and varied curriculum that ensures all children are challenged to achieve their best. We will strive to nurture children as confident and independent learners, within a happy environment, where everyone is included and feels valued and secure. Badshot Lea Village Infant School has high expectations of all members of the school community in all aspects of their school life. We will constantly foster partnership between children, parents, staff, Governors, the villagers of Badshot Lea and the wider community to promote the vision and aims of the school. Our achievements will be celebrated and we will always strive to improve.


We aim to:

• provide an education of the highest quality for each child in a happy, welcoming, caring and stimulating environment where all children feel confident to develop their potential
• have high expectations of academic excellence whilst promoting the moral, cultural, spiritual, social, emotional, physical and creative development of our children
• prepare our children for their future education and adult life by encouraging an enthusiastic and independent approach to lifelong learning
• develop appropriate social skills, positive self-esteem and high personal expectations
• encourage respect for, and tolerance of, others and appreciate and value the difference between people
• work together as a team to maintain our successful partnership with children, parents, staff, Governors, the villagers of Badshot Lea and the wider community

Above all, we will strive to ensure our children enjoy this school, and take with them happy memories of their early years with us.

Admission to the School

By law children must start full-time education no later than the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday. In Surrey the Education Committee has approved an admissions policy enabling children to be admitted into school in the September of the school year in which they are five years old.

The Governing Body of Badshot Lea Village Infant School has agreed an Early Years Foundation Stage Admissions Policy to offer all children full-time education by the end of September.

The Governing Body will admit children up to our Published Admission Number of 45. When there are more applications than places available, Surrey’s policy is to admit children in the following priority order:

First priority: Looked-after children
Children who are registered as being in the care of a local authority (for example, fostered or living in a children’s home).

Second priority: Exceptional arrangements
Occasionally there will be a very small number of children for whom exceptional arrangements will apply. These exceptional arrangements may override other admissions priorities and the LA may apply them when they first offer places. The LA may also ask schools to admit over this Published Admission Number at other times under this category.

Third priority: Brothers and Sisters (siblings)
After ‘Exceptional arrangements’, places are then offered to siblings. A sibling is a child who will have an older brother or sister still at the school concerned or a junior school on an adjoining or shared site at the time of the younger sibling’s admission.

Fourth priority: Children for whom the school is the nearest to their home
The nearest school is defined as the school closest to their home address that admits pupils of the appropriate age range. The distance is measured, in a straight line, from the address point of the pupil’s home, as set by Ordnance Survey, to the nearest school gate available for pupils to use. This is calculated using the Admission and Transport Team’s Geographical Information System.

The nearest school may be either inside or outside the county boundary.

Fifth priority: Any other applicant
 

Registering Your Child

Registering Your Child
You may register your child with our school at any time. Should you wish to visit the school prior to registration you would be most welcome. Please could we ask that you telephone the school to make an appointment. Registration does not guarantee admission to our school.

Full details on applying for admission to school are given in Surrey County Council’s publication Primary school admissions 2010/2011 details of which can be downloaded from www.surreycc.gov.uk/admissions.

 

School Organisation

Children work in a variety of situations both within their classroom and around the school. They are taught individually and in small groups, as half a class and as a whole class, by both teachers and teaching assistants. We offer a broad, balanced curriculum which is delivered in an exciting way, matched to individual needs. Our higher level teaching assistant teaches class groups to ensure appropriate planning, preparation and assessment time is available for all our teachers.

For the academic year 2009– 2010 there are five class groups as follows:

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