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Welcome to Higham Ferrers Nursery & Infant School
"Together, we enjoy learning in a happy, caring and friendly environment"
Welcome to the website of Higham Ferrers Nursery and Infant School. The school is located in the heart of the historic market town of Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire and is supported by a vibrant and supportive community.
As the newly appointed headteacher, I am thrilled to join such an amazing team of staff, governors and parents, all of which work together to strive for the best possible education for the children, academically, socially and emotionally to ensure they reach their full potential. Our school has been recognised by Ofsted as a ‘Good’ school and has, once again, been accredited with the ‘Quality Mark’ for Literacy and Numeracy standards across the school.
We are also an ‘Attachment Aware’ school, where well-being, nurture and resilience are high on our agenda and where behaviours are taught to develop important life skills which support positive mental health. We firmly believe in fostering a safe, inclusive and engaging environment that supports each child’s individual growth and development. With a child-centred approach, we provide opportunities that spark the imagination, encourage curiosity, creativity and a love of learning to build confident, independent life-long learners.
Our core values: Care, Share, Enjoy, Respect and Friendship, underpin everything we do and are woven into the fabric of our curriculum and daily interactions, ensuring that are children not only reach their full potential academically, but also grow into empathetic and responsible individuals. Please feel free to explore our website to learn more about what our school has to offer and to contact the school office if you require any further information.
Mrs Jane Toyer
Headteacher
We are looking forward to joining the Learning for Life Education Trust before the end of the year. Applications to join our school are still to be made via NNC Admissions: https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/school-admissions
Reception 2025 Tours
Wednesday 6th November at 9:15am and 1:30pm
Monday 11th November at 5:00pm
Wednesday 13th November at 9:15am and 1:30pm
Wednesday 20th November at 9:15am and 1:30pm
Wednesday 27th November at 9:15am and 1:30pm
Call 01933 312904 or email to book onto one of our tours!
Exciting News!
A recent visit from Ofsted.
We remain a good school. Do take some time to read our report.
These are some of the quotes from the report:
"Staff model the schools values and are caring, respectful and friendly."
"Pupils feel safe and secure here. They told me how kind everyone is to each other."
"Pupils are keen to attend because lessons are challenging and interesting."
"It is a calm educational setting. Pupils leave well prepared for their next school."
"The Headteacher's high standards and caring approach are upheld by her staff."
A visit from the Quality Mark and we got our 10 year award.
The Award
The basic skills Quality Mark is an award that celebrates and supports continous improvement in literacy and numeracy. It is awarded to a setting or school to recognise their provision, practice and performance in literacy and numeracy and is valid for three years. A school must demonstrate a whole school approach to improving standards in literacy and numeracy, with evidence of the impact of its approaches. It provides a framework for self-evaluation and continous improvement of the basic skills of all pupils in a school including those who under attain.
We gained our ten year Quality Mark award.
These are some of the things that were said:
“Attainment and progress is good across each phase of learning. It is clear that children in Nursery and reception get off to a good start with a curriculum tailor made for their needs and abilities.”
“Pupil’s progress and attainment are rigorously tracked. Good quality interventions are offered and evaluated against their impact on achievement.”
“The children manage their own behaviour well. During the assessment pupils were observed being gainfully employed, engaged and interested in learning.”
“Wow topic starters are common place across the school as are ‘fabulous’ finishes. Pupils are treated to ‘collapse curriculum’ days, drama starters and increased outdoor curriculum opportunities.”
“Teachers manage classrooms well. Learning walls for English and maths are common practice.”
“The Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher work very well together. They have a clear focus on school improvement and they share a passion to ensure the very best learning experiences for each and every individual pupil.”
A teaching and learning review by the Inspire teaching school alliance.
They found that learning behaviours across the school were good. Children were focused, independent and resilient. There was rigour in work and progress was evident for all ability groups.
They spoke to the school council and this was some of their responses:
“We would recommend our school 100% to any children to come here because it is fun.”
“We love coming to school.”
“We would give our teachers and Headteacher a 10/10.”
“Our teachers give us hard work it is challenging but we know that we can learn from our mistakes.”
Our Values
If you care, respect and share, you enjoy friendship
OUR VALUES
We want all of our pupils to know our values so that they can uphold them in the best way possible and recite them with a true and meaningful understanding of what they represent. Our whole school community values are:
New Class Powerpoints
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pdf Welcome to KS1 | Download |
Ofsted Update
Parents and carers can now download our most recent Ofsted report following our Inspection which took place on 25th - 26th February 2020.
Term Dates
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pdf Term Dates 2024-2025 | Download |