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Edge Grove is a bustling hive of creative energy; whilst in truth, creativity happens everywhere in school, this is never more apparent than in our Performing Arts Faculty – and there are plenty of spaces at our school where your child will be able to unleash their creative side.

Our Performing Arts facilities include a theatre with tiered seating for 120 for performances and productions, and a Music block with music classroom (with plenty of instruments to inspire our budding musicians) and individual practice rooms for lessons with peripatetic teachers.

Our Art Studio is the colourful hub of our visual arts programme, and is arguably the most vibrant part the school, with ever-changing displays of pupils’ work.

Evidence of the broad and exciting curriculum is clear to see on the walls – and even ceiling! – of the studio.

As well as class lessons from Year 3 taught by our passionate Head of Art, the Art Studio also hosts numerous clubs, where our talented artists hone their skills and develop their passions.

Our Design & Technology Workshop is well equipped with 3D printers and other machinery, enabling pupils to develop hands-on skills through interactive learning.

Pupils from Year 3 have lessons with our inspired Head of Design & Technology, and throughout their time at Edge Grove will have lessons in woodwork, metalwork, computer-aided design, electronics and mathematical modelling.

At Edge Grove, pupils are fortunate to have extensive sports facilities, including large areas of playing fields, which are home to five cricket pitches, six football pitches (plus four mini pitches), six rugby pitches (plus four mini pitches), and five cricket nets.  We also have an Astro with two netball courts, two tennis courts and where we also play hockey, futsal, softball cricket, European Handball and scooting.

In our large Sports Hall, pupils can also play badminton, basketball, volleyball and table tennis as well as gymnastics and fitness activities.

And of course, our 48 acres of parkland are the perfect backdrop for cross country and triathlon events!

Pupils from Year 1 upwards enjoy weekly swimming lessons as part of their PE curriculum in
the Summer Term in our outdoor heated swimming pool. There are also additional swimming sessions for our squad swimmers, and the House Swimming Gala is a favourite event in our summer calendar.

The pool is also well-used by our Holiday Camp provider, Keen Beans, during the Summer Holidays and May Half Term (subject to weather conditions)

Edge Grove has two well-equipped Science labs, where pupils from Year 5 are taught by our secondary-trained Head of Science, who brings learning to life through many, many hands on experiments and investigations.

IT is embedded across the School and across the curriculum, and all of our teaching resources are web-based, and therefore can be accessed on any device with any operating system. Pupils aren’t tied to using just one type of computer.

Pupils have Computing lessons either in our IT Suite or in the classroom, using Chromebooks, and our whole school approach incorporates the following elements:

• Each pupil in school is given their own Google for Education account from Nursery;
• Home-school communications and real-time parental engagement are possible using our online learning environment;
• Pupils in Nursery to Year 4 have access to banks of Chromebooks;
• Pupils from Year 5 have their own dedicated touch screen Chromebooks;
• The School invests in adaptive online educational tools;
• The entire site is covered with high speed WiFi connections with failover redundancy;
• Online safeguarding tools are installed on all pupil accounts, not only protecting them from inappropriate content, but looking out for any search terms or content which could indicate a safeguarding issue.

The Learning Support Centre, in the Chapel, is a calm and nurturing space where children come for a variety of additional support sessions.

The sessions cover a range of areas including academic booster sessions for maths, spelling, reading and comprehension and handwriting as well as emotional and mental health support including emotional regulation, mindfulness, mindset and social skills.

Support sessions are carried out by members of the Learning Support Team and can take place as one to one or small groups and cover a range of areas. We also run a lunchtime nurture provision for children who find navigating unstructured times more challenging.

Our children’s wellbeing is also supported via our School Therapist