Posted on: Thursday 7th September 2017
PE & Sports Premium Sport is an integral part of Highgate Primary School. Children receive two hours of PE each week led by teachers and our PE coach, Jimmar. We make use of our outside area all year round, as well as using Highgate Wood in better weather. Our games curriculum is broad and varied […]
Posted on: Monday 17th July 2017
On Friday we’ll be saying goodbye to our Year 6 classes, their primary education behind them, ready to move on to secondary school and the new challenges that come their way. They’re well prepared for the journey ahead and leave us full of confidence, having experienced such a rich curriculum, achieved highly in their SATs and, last Thursday […]
Posted on: Monday 10th July 2017
It’s that time of year and all around the country children and parents are nervously waiting to receive their end of term reports… I still have all of my own school reports, handwritten in ink, dating back to my time at primary school. Sadly these contain few teacher comments, after all, what would be the […]
Posted on: Tuesday 4th July 2017
It’s been a long time in the designing, planning, fundraising and construction, but on Saturday our school’s outside stage was open for business. With an awful lot of hard work, what started out as one child’s drawing has, rather brilliantly, been turned into a reality. The project to redesign our outside spaces really started off […]
Posted on: Tuesday 4th July 2017
The Outside Stage – Ignite Imaginations “Play is the highest form of research” Albert Einstein We are very excited to announce that the outside stage in the lower playground is ready! Thank you to all the children, parents, staff, trusts, foundations and all our supporters who have helped to raise the £65,000 construction costs. We […]
Posted on: Monday 3rd July 2017
Ellie’s Summer Camp Monday 22nd July – Friday 2nd August 2024 We are delighted Ellie is returning to Highgate Primary to run our hugely popular Summer camp for the first two week of the holidays. The children will be immersed in a range of exciting activities throughout the week including: Multi sports – there will […]
Posted on: Tuesday 27th June 2017
It’s nearly four years since the school was inspected and last week’s heat-wave brought this rather traumatic experience back with a shudder and a sense of dread. It was the last full week of term in July 2013, temperatures were up in the 30s and everyone was more than ready for a well-deserved holiday. […]
Posted on: Tuesday 20th June 2017
Doing the rounds of the education press this weekend was the news that a school known for its ‘no excuses’ approach to managing pupil behaviour has just received an outstanding judgement from Ofsted. The disciplinary approach includes ‘demerits’, or detentions, for forgetting pencils, grimacing at teachers or talking in corridors between lessons. The school […]
Posted on: Thursday 15th June 2017
In-Year Admissions If you would like to join us during the school year, this is called an In-Year Admission and depends on the availability of places. To make an application, parents should contact their local authority directly. Residents of Haringey can make an application online by going to: http://www.haringey.gov.uk/children-and-families/schools-and-education/school-admissions Please do also get in touch […]
Posted on: Thursday 15th June 2017
Reception Admissions All children in Haringey enter the Reception class in the September of the school year in which they will be five. Some children will move up from the nursery and others join the school at reception age. We have places for 56 reception children each year. To make an application, parents should contact […]
