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Derwent Primary School is situated in an area of Derby City with 262 pupils on roll, aged from two to eleven years. Our children enjoy coming to school and take full advantage of all the different opportunities on offer. We are a welcoming, inclusive school where children achieve to their full potential.

We opened as an academy in June 2017 and we are a school that has shown rapid improvement. We have seen our results in Early Years rise to be in line with National Average. The end of Key Stage one results are showing an upward trend with the expectation that they will be in line with National Average in 2020. The percentage of pupils achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was above National Average in 2019. There has been a huge improvement in the percentage of pupils passing the Y1 phonics screening check in the last two years and it is now above National Average at 92%.

Derwent Primary School has an established and talented Senior Leadership Team, working under the direction of an experienced Headteacher. The team consists of a Deputy Headteacher, an Assistant Headteacher, SENCo and two key stage leaders. All have a proven track record of exemplary teaching and are extremely effective at leading their whole school responsibilities. There is also a lead for Safeguarding.

We have a high proportion of disadvantaged pupils (currently 62%) and our catchment area has families with high levels of social deprivation. Therefore team spirit is vital to us at Derwent as we face many challenges that come with inner city education. Teachers are well supported and have very high expectations of the pupils.

The school building can accommodates 315 pupils and has a 52 place F1 unit and a 24 place two year old unit.

The school has a mobility rate of around 17% which is higher than the national average and we experience a high level of transience with families moving in and out of school during the academic year. There are an increasing number of pupils from ethnic groups other than White British and the number of pupils who enter school with EAL (23%) is increasing considerably year on year.

Punctuality and attendance of our pupils is extremely important and we have staff responsible for promoting this and ensuring that our pupils and families recognise the value of attending school every day and arriving on time. The staff work tirelessly to promote this with regular prizes and incentives in place for pupils, and support given where and when it is needed. We also offer a breakfast club at a small cost which also supports attendance and punctuality.

We have six behaviors for learning to support children in achieving a positive attitude to their learning and these are a part of all our lessons.

• Focus

• Creative

• Reflective

• Resilient

• Collaborative

• Curiosity

At Derwent we recognise children’s individuality and the challenges they face. Therefore, reflected in the heart of our curriculum design, we ensure that all children have an entitlement to rich and stimulating learning overflowing with first-hand experiences relevant to their needs.

Our curriculum is built on the principle of ensuring pupils ‘know more and remember more’. Consequently, there is a well-considered build-up of knowledge content within discrete subjects and also across a context specific curriculum. We ensure that knowledge components underpin key skills to equip pupils to perform these skills at an increasingly more complex level.

Precise vocabulary is selected and purposefully revisited throughout to ensure that this ‘sticks’, allowing the school to counteract the poverty of language and word gaps that many of our children face. From the very beginnings every opportunity is explored to foster an early love of reading to support our pupils’ navigation of the journey from ‘learning to read’ to ‘reading to learn’. This prepares pupils academically, socially and emotionally for now and in the future.

Children will understand the importance of keeping safe, being both mentally and physically healthy, and form positive relationships. These attributes will allow children to make positive contributions to the school and prepare them to be positive contributors to the local community and beyond.  This, coupled with high expectations, enables our children to be the very best version of themselves. The curriculum will give all learners, particularly the most disadvantaged the knowledge and self-discipline to become ‘anything’ and ‘anyone’.

We take pride in the fact that each of our schools has its own unique identity and way of being. Our success so far has been founded on the principle of professional freedom enhanced by Trust support systems and rigorous quality assurance. The starting point for us at ONE Academy Trust is to ensure that our very purpose is clear and understood by everyone. We are a Trust that holds trust on behalf of our children and staff.

What unites ONE Academy Trust is our agreement on a broad set of principles. We believe in respect, in caring and valuing people, in an inclusive and ethical approach and in nurturing a culture of continuous improvement.

Our staff feel privileged to work alongside so many amazing people, delivering high quality curriculums and provision within safe environments for our children. So many people contribute to our successes, which is what makes the quality of our Trust sustainable.

EveryONE matters.

To find out more about the trust that we are proud to be a part of, please visit the link below;

https://www.eteach.com/schools/one-academy-trust-20844