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Sharps Copse Primary and Nursery School is a primary school located in Havant, Hampshire. The school caters for boys and girls aged 4 to 11 and currently has 293 pupils on roll, with a capacity of 315. The school is led by Mr Michael Elsen.

Key facts

URN: 133303
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4 to 11
Gender: Mixed
Sixth form: Does not have a sixth form
Nursery: No Nursery Classes
Local authority: Hampshire
Constituency: Havant
Setting: Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Opened: 2002

Governing body (8 current, 1 former)

Maintained school governing body.

Leadership

Name	Role	How appointed	Term
Mrs Jane Towers	Chair of Governors	Appointed by GB/board	since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027

Full governing body

Name	Role	How appointed	Term
Mrs Vicky Rowe	Governor	Elected by school staff	since 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Maggie McMurray	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Amy Fairall	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2026 · until 2030
Mr Steve Gough	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Bridgette Sanders	Governor	Appointed by LA	since 2025 · until 2029
Mrs Sharon Hardie	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mr Peter Storrie	Governor	Appointed by GB/board	since 2022 · until 2026 ends 2026
Mrs Vicky Rowe Former	Governor	Elected by school staff	since 2022 · term ended 2026

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record

Ofsted

Ungraded inspectionInspected Sep 2022. No grade given.

Ofsted carried out an ungraded inspection. These inspections give no grade and no key judgements, so none is shown here. Read the report itself for what inspectors found.

Last graded inspection: Good (12 Sep 2011). Ofsted has not graded the school since; its latest visit, in Sep 2022, was ungraded.

Inspection history

Date	Outcome
Sep 2022	Ungraded inspection (no grade given)
12/09/2011	Good
18/11/2008	Requires improvement

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026, via WhatSchool: Ofsted may have published a newer report since. Since September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade at new inspections, so a one-word grade, where shown, belongs to the inspection date beside it. Ungraded inspections give no grade and are dated by month only. Inspections from September 2024 to November 2025 grade key judgements; report cards (from November 2025) grade evaluation areas.

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