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About

Welcome to the Great Finborough Church Primary School website. We are a popular and successful village church school that welcomes children from both our catchment area (Great Finborough and Buxhall) and from the wider local area. We are committed to ensuring that every child meets their full potential both academically and socially.

This is achieved through providing high quality teaching and stimulating learning environments that are safe and nurturing, while providing the appropriate level of challenge to enable our children to learn new skills. As a school we put great emphasis on ensuring all our pupils make the most progress possible in the vital skills of reading, writing and maths.

At the same time our curriculum is enriched with carefully planned educational visits and a range of different learning opportunities and activities.

Enrichment activities include, for example, cricket and gymnastics, trips to venues supporting classroom learning, such as Sutton Hoo when studying Anglo Saxons or Woodbridge Tide Mill for cogs and pulleys, music workshops and an annual residential trip to an area such as West Wales.

In the school’s own words, from the school website.

Enrichment

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Key facts

URN
124732
Type
Voluntary controlled school
Phase
Primary
Ages
4 to 11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Nursery
No Nursery Classes
Local authority
Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
Setting
Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city

Governing body (10 current, 0 former)

Maintained school governing body.

Leadership

NameRoleHow appointedTerm
Mr Liam PageChair of GovernorsAppointed by GB/boardsince 2022 · until 2028

Full governing body

NameRoleHow appointedTerm
Mrs Karen HarmanGovernorAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Miss Anna EllissGovernorAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Miss Lesley Michelle DickinsGovernorElected by school staffsince 2025 · until 2029
Mrs Harriet Caroline EllissGovernorAppointed by GB/boardsince 2024 · until 2028
Mrs Judith KempGovernorElected by parentssince 2024 · until 2028
Mr Liam PageGovernorAppointed by GB/boardsince 2022 · until 2028
Ms Angela GrayGovernorElected by parentssince 2021 · until 2029
The Revd Sarah JenkinsGovernorEx-officio foundation governor (appointed by foundation by virtue of the office they hold)since 2021
Mr Stephen DoddGovernorEx-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principalsince 2007

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