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Departments: Nursery
Infants Juniors Additional Services
National Curriculum: Foundation Key
Stage 1 Key Stage 2
Below you
will find a brief paragraph dedicated to each department in our school. For more
in-depth information, click on the buttons to the left of this page or follow
the links as indicated.
Please
Note - You
may be entitled to financial assistance -
Go to the Administration page and then to the end of the Finance
page
Where's my
Teddy?
Nursery
- Progressing to Foundation Level
Age 0 to 4
Squirrels, Fledglings and Cygnets
Abbey
School Nursery offers young children in Torbay a wealth of activities and experiences through a proven
curriculum that stimulates and extends young minds, from the time they join us
as babies, until they move into school at four years old. Our specialist staff
have created a happy and caring environment through which they encourage your
child to develop appropriately in all areas of growth.
Visit
us and we will show you how: you will not fail to be impressed! For more details
click the Nursery
page. For further information on
any aspect of Abbey School, send an email via This Link
or telephone 01803-327868.
Infants
Age
4 to 5
Starting
School - Reception Class
Foundation Level
School Life starts in the September of the academic year in which your child
becomes five, when children transfer from the Nursery into the Reception class.
Here, using a statutory baseline
assessment, experts in Reception Teaching assess children within the first seven weeks of schooling. Abbey School provides an
appropriate learning and play environment to ensure a successful and productive
first year in school.
Nursery children exploring
Age
5 to 7
Gaining
Confidence - Years 1 and 2
Key Stage 1
The
success of the Reception year is built on in Years 1 and 2, by teachers who
specialise in this age group and understand how to get the best from infant
children. Each month sees incremental progress being achieved, and there is a
six-monthly review at which teachers, together with you, formulate appropriate
goals to work towards during the coming six months. By the end of year 2, your
child will be developing self-confidence, social skills and making sound
academic progress. Year 2 children are thoroughly prepared for the national SAT
assessments at Key Stage 1, which they take during the course of their normal
school curriculum in the Summer Term of their seventh year.
Describing
what our Infants achieve cannot give you a true reflection of what we do. Please
make an appointment to visit us, and let us show you our remarkable achievements
first hand! For more details click the Infant
page. For further information on
any aspect of Abbey School, follow This Link
or telephone 01803-327868.
'Which way to Totnes Castle?'
Juniors
Age
7 to 11
Towards
Independent Learning - Years 3, 4, 5, and 6
Key Stage 2
Work
at Key Stage 2 level lasts for four years, during which children gradually start
to develop independent learning, in readiness for secondary school. At Abbey
School, each year provides a tried and tested specialist curriculum designed to
guide children painlessly through the rapid development of these years, in which
there is dramatic educational, physical, emotional and social progress. A full
range of National Curriculum subjects is offered, enhanced by many additional
activities.
Throughout these years, teachers work closely with parents, ensuring that
regular targets and goals are achieved, and that children enjoy the learning
process both in school and out. After all, life is not solely academic and your
child may excel in many other areas.
We encourage you to
work with us to ensure that your child achieves across each area of their
individual and personal development spectrum. Not all children will be
ballerinas, Einstein's, chess masters, business tycoons, academics or football
stars, but with educational specialists in Abbey School to guide the way and you
to make the difference, together we will provide the support and opportunities
that your child needs in order to achieve optimally as they mature and grow.
Confidence
Leads to Success
In amongst all of this, we must never forget that we are here for the children,
and children adore success. At Abbey, we aim to ensure that children succeed in
all areas of their development so they can revel in a sense of achievement. When
you feel good about yourself, it makes a difference to your confidence and
self-worth, and we spend a great deal of our efforts ensuring that Abbey
children feel good about themselves! This positive approach repays itself
hugely, when we reap the rewards of our older children achieving beyond
expectation in all fields. Abbey children are successful and your child can
become part of this success.
Childhood
passes all too soon, so let us make the best of it. Visit us and we will show
you what we have done in the past, what we are doing now, and what we will be
offering in the future. For more details on our Junior education, click
this Junior
page link. For further information on any aspect of Abbey School, send an email
by following This Link
or telephone 01803-327868.
Many Abbey children play musical instruments
Additional
Services for Abbey Families
Abbey
School remains open all year round. During school term times and normal school
days, which are 9.15 am to either 3.00 pm (Nursery and Infants) or 3.30 pm
(Juniors) we accept children into our three school departments, Nursery, Infants
and Juniors.
We also open before and after the normal school day, from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm. Additional
attendance is charged hourly and billed each month.
We
offer all children, whether Abbey Term-Time Pupils or not, a range of exciting
and stimulating activities throughout all school holidays, as well as revision
courses in SAT subjects at both Key Stage 1 and 2, in maths, English and
science.
For further information regarding
attending Abbey School outside the normal school day or term, follow this Schools Out link. To
contact us by email about extra hours follow This Link,
or telephone us on 01803-327868.
Children's Reading
From time to time teachers at Abbey School create suggested reading lists for
different aged children that we will publish on this page.
Books on these lists will be readily available and can be ordered from
Amazon.co.uk.
Parent Reading
Whenever we discover any books that we think might interest parents, we will
recommend them on this page. They may be ordered directly from Amazon.
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