Somerfords’ Walter Powell School is a small village primary school serving children and families from Little and Great Somerford as well as children from the surrounding towns and villages.  We are located in a rural setting within the heart of Great Somerford.

Since September 2008, Somerfords' Walter Powell Primary School has been federated with Seagry Primary School. The two schools share a Headteacher and Governing Body, whilst retaining their own identities as rural village schools.    

The school provides a stimulating environment in which children are given the opportunity to fully develop their spiritual, intellectual, emotional and social potential. We have a large sports field, shady trees, a newly installed trim trail, a wildlife area and access to our own allotment.  Co-located with us is an excellant independent pre school.

Ours is a school with a family atmosphere, based on a framework of love, security, trust and respect within a community of Christian teaching. The whole school knows each other.  We have small year groups and mixed age classes that allow the teachers to be flexible in learning, teaching to ability rather than age.  The school is fortunate to have enthusiastic and highly motivated staff, who promote the Christian ethos and character of our school which gives the children a love of learning and enquiring minds.  The head teacher Mrs Rowe said, “Our teaching has recently been assessed as good with some outstanding features”.   

Somerfords' Walter Powell Primary School offers a range of popular activities which include: drumming, saxophone and guitar, swimming, netball, football, street surfing, computer club, cookery club, gardening club,   Each year we stage a whole school drama production which involves all the children.

If you're searching for your next teaching post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed teachers - send us your CV now and say what sort of role you're looking for.

DBAT was founded in 2012, enabling the Diocese of Bristol’s Board of Education to sponsor academies.

The management of its affairs are overseen by its Board of Directors which operates a flexible Scheme of Delegation. This is based on the principle of detailed monitoring against and evaluation of Ofsted and Diocesan Distinctiveness criteria of all academies in the MAT and increasing ‘earned autonomy’ once academies demonstrate they are ‘good’ or better.

Mission Statement

DBAT’s core purposes are to:

• focus on improving the educational experiences, employment prospects and life chances of young people, especially those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds;
• demonstrate that children’s life-chances are improved when their formal education is within the context of an Academy that is founded in the Christian tradition, establishes an ethos that is distinctively Christian and embraces the very best practices in teaching, learning, leadership, management and safety;
• accelerate students’ levels of attainment and achievement, and raises student, teacher and parental aspirations and ambitions ;
• help to create more cohesive communities enhancing opportunities for social mobility by striving to eliminate the attainment gap between students from disadvantaged backgrounds and young people who by circumstances of birth and inheritance take for granted their automatic right to a good education;
• transform the overall performance of underperforming schools in deprived areas, helping to improve and innovate in all aspects of teaching, learning and leadership and promoting the development of future leaders.

Vision

Diocese of Bristol Academies Trust (DBAT) aspires to transform the educational landscape of the Diocese, working with all Church academies (including educationally under-performing academies in disadvantaged socio-economic areas) to accelerate student attainment and contribute to community cohesion, so transforming academy performance and students’ life chances through excellent leadership.

Values

DBAT adopts the Diocesan values for schools which is that families of schools collectively meet all students’ needs and are based on the fundamental belief that all students can achieve, succeed and thrive. We own that it is our job to ensure this happens so that:

• Families protect all their member schools
• Families of schools meet the needs of all employees
• Families facilitate knowledge transfer
• Families distribute innovation
• Families save time and money
• Families ensure that all students can achieve, succeed and thrive
• Families deal effectively with special educational needs
• Families support new and existing leaders
• Families embed the capacity to improve/manage change
• Families build leadership capacity and succession
• Families aid the integration of Children’s services

In all Families there will be stronger and weaker partners but all are valued.

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