Welcome to the Great Abington School Website!

If you’re already part of our school family I hope you will find your way around this site and find everything you need – if you don’t then please let us know - any ideas from you are important to us. If you’re new to our school, then I hope the website gives you a flavour of our school atmosphere – but nothing beats a real visit. You will be made most welcome in the real school as well as the virtual one. We’d be very interested to have your comments in our guest book.

At Great Abington School we try to live our vision of a rich and creative environment for learning – where every child matters. There are lots of extra curricula activities like sport and music (visit the list of clubs in any one term to see how varied the choice is) and we take every opportunity to enrich the curriculum with visits and visitors, theme weeks and special days. The school calendar gives you a list of the events already planned for this year, though that will be added to as the year progresses.

We are a small school with 122 pupils, eight teachers and eight teaching assistants. We enjoy celebrating successes with the children and making sure each one knows how special they are. We have a special Sharing and Celebration assembly each Friday. We welcome the support of parents and the wider community and seek out ways to keep the school at the heart of this village community. All our members of staff work hard and support each other and this is recognised by the Investors in People Award.

We are proud of our academic achievements at Great Abington where we strive to ensure every child reaches their potential before they leave us – visit the School Profile for further information on standards of achievement. We are also proud of the support we give to pupils with any special needs. Health and safety of our pupils is high on the agenda and we were one of the first schools to achieve the National Healthy Schools Award. We also recognise the need to prepare our pupils from a rural environment with the confidence to understand and take their place in the wider community. International education features highly in our curriculum – we have achieved the International School Award twice and are now collecting our portfolio of evidence to be assessed for a third award.

Before and after school child care of high quality is provided by GAPS from 7.45am until 6.00pm in a separate annexe building on the school site. For more information follow the link to their website. Also housed in the same building, is an extended day pre-school, catering for children from 2 and a half years old. They too have a website link.

New this year we are employing a play leader at lunchtime. Already the lunch break offers more children more opportunities to join in active play. Eventually the whole area will be zoned with opportunities for children to choose fast and active games, quiet reading or to take time to chat undisturbed with their friends. For more information see under news.

The demography of South Cambridgeshire is such that, in common with other local schools, we currently have a falling roll. So if you are looking for a place for your child, do make an appointment to come and visit us.

Mrs Sue Hodgson, Headteacher