Working Together and Achieving Together.

 

Welcome to Fonthill Primary School! Fonthill is one of the older schools on the Southmead estate, situated in Northwest Bristol and was built in the 1930’s. We are steadily improving classrooms, playgrounds and infrastructure in order to create a vibrant and exciting learning environment. We are lucky to share a site with Bristol Arts and Music centre, which has some great benefits!

 

We are a Primary school, taking children into our Nursery from age 3 and transferring to secondary at age 11. We have, including Nursery, approximately 250 children on roll.

 

We are a school that places a high priority on the importance of making sure our children leave us with the basics – particularly age appropriate literacy and numeracy skills, thus the curriculum is exciting and engaging at the same time as being demanding with close attention to basic skills for learning and living.  

We aim to provide a balanced curriculum which includes the National Curriculum but also teaches some of the life skills the children will require both in and out of school including:

 

  • A respect for others and the environment
  • Personal values
  • Creative, enquiring minds
  • An appreciation of what it is possible to achieve
  • Independence

 

We value the arts and sport and plan opportunities for all children to get involved in a wide variety of activities. We are preparing all our children for the life they will face after school within a stable and caring environment, which provides them with challenge and the knowledge that everyone can achieve.

Good academic progress and pastoral care are strengths of the school, and our children both behave and achieve well.

 

Our aim is for all children to be able to work and achieve to the best of their ability assisted by the staff in school and supported by parents at home. It is summed up in the statement – “Working together, achieving together”, we look confidently to the future.

 

You are welcome to visit our school, you will be impressed with the liveliness, curiosity and friendliness of our children which is a real characteristic of our school!