Welcome
An Introduction to our School
Southern Road Primary School is situated in the London
Borough of Newham. It is a large four-form entry primary school
of nearly 800 pupils, which also includes a 156 part-time place
nursery. It was formed in April 1990 through the amalgamation of
Southern Road Infant and Southern Road Junior schools.
The school serves a diverse multi-cultural and multi-faith
community and there are some thirty different languages represented
within our pupil population.
T he school is housed in two modern buildings, each
with its own kitchen, dining area and hall. The junior building
has 15 classrooms, many of which open out onto large practical areas
whilst the infant building is open plan, with 12 teaching areas.
The nursery has three large rooms each having a quiet area and toilets.
There is also an outside play space for the children. The school
is carpeted throughout.
The school currently has 28 class teachers, a Head
teacher, a Deputy Headteacher, 2 teaching Assistant Headteachers,
1.2 f.t.e Inclusion Managers, 1 f.t.e English Language teacher,
4 nursery nurses, 40 teaching assistants, 1 Welfare staff, 4 f.t.e
administrative staff and a site supervisor.
Parental involvement is actively encouraged and we
have a register of parent helpers. We provide a termly programme
of extra curricular activities for pupils both at lunchtime and
after school. This programme together with information about the
current term’s events is published in the “Compass”
our school newsletter, which is sent to parent/ carers at end of
each half term.
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