At Sheringdale Primary School we take pride in our reputation for rigorous educational standards in a welcoming, caring and friendly environment. Every child mattered here long before it became explicit government policy, and we feel that we really are like a large, happy family, in the sense that everybody knows everybody else – the staff know all the children, usually by name, and the children know all the staff, not just their own class-teachers. This is possible because we are a small school, with just over 200 pupils plus a Nursery class, but at the same time large enough to be viable, enterprising and diverse. We hold that children perform best in a cheerful, unthreatening atmosphere where they are encouraged to know their own minds and value their own interests and ideas; to develop that self-respect which engenders a proper respect for the world around them – including other people.

We hope you will enjoy our website; we are conscious that it has not been very active for much of the past year, but work has been going on in the background to develop ways of making it user-friendly for staff, so that they can more easily keep it up to date. There are also plans to add a pupils' "channel", where each class would have its own area and the children could play a more active part in generating content (and so become, perhaps, a contented generation). But there are many technical and administrative issues to address first, so keep breathing.

Posted: 6th February 2009