St. Peter’s is a small, family sized infant and nursery school for children aged 3 – 7 years.  Our admission numbers are 90 pupils in the school and a further 50 part-time places in our free nursery.  We have been proudly serving the South Portslade and neighbouring communities since 1906 and we are set in a beautiful Victorian building which is fully modernised, but which retains many of its original features. Several new buildings have been added over the last few years to provide an excellent environment for young children and their needs. 

Our classrooms are all fantastically well resourced, with lots of access to high quality teaching and learning equipment.  We are really excited about our brand new nursery classroom which is now in use!  There are some photos of it below (under "The Nursery") and also more pictures on the nursery link on the left.
 

Reception  - "Red Class"


 

 

Year One - "Blue Class"

Year Two - "Yellow Class"


 

The Nursery - "Emerald Class"


 

Our outside area is used as an extension of the classrooms and is continually developed to ensure excellent provision for all our children.  Our outside area comprises of two playgrounds, a "Secret Garden", a grassy area and a brand new water and pond garden.  These areas all have different resources and functions, such as our music area and our climbing wall, providing excellent opportunities for co-operative and imaginative play.
 

Our school council have been highly involved in decisions for developments to the playground area and we installed some eye-catching sails to provide shade for the children in our lower playground as requested by the children.  We also have some new exciting wall art and chalkboards around the playground for the children to use at break and lunch time. 

Shade sails & climbing wall playground

New water garden

New pond garden

 

Music area

 We are well known for our lively and caring atmosphere and we pride ourselves on the high level of education we provide whilst providing a personal and individual environment where children have the ability to develop and thrive.

All our staff understand how young children learn and ensure that both the learning environment and the content of their lessons are stimulating, creative, fun and educational.  We truly believe that every child matters, it is important that all our children are happy and healthy, which are fundamental before successful learning can take place.  The care for children here at St. Peter’s was reported as outstanding in our recent Ofsted.

Our school has well developed links with the community and external agencies.  These links help to ensure that we are not just addressing the children’s academic needs but also their personal,
 

social and emotional needs.  By the time children leave St Peter’s at the end of Year 2 they are well equipped for that transition to Key Stage 2.

Our latest Ofsted report in October 2007 reported that we are  "a good school with a number of outstanding features" and the results at the end of Key Stage One (age seven) are above the National and Local Average Scores.

We have excellent relationships with our parents and work together to improve our provision for the children in our care.  We are continually seeking to improve the partnership which must exist between school and home for our children to succeed. 

We strongly believe that our school is a busy, well organised and successful school in which you can be confident your child will thrive.
 

Our extensive Air Raid Shelters offer a truly historic insight into Portslade life in the war.  We offer an exciting "Child in the War" experience to local Junior schools and open our Air Raid Shelters to the public at our Summer Fayre in June each year.

Click on this image to take an exciting virtual tour of our Air Raid Shelters!

St. Peter's was built in 1906 and was originally a primary school for 170 children.  There are air raid shelters underneath our canteen and our log books from the Second World War tell us how children spent time there on a daily basis during the air raid warnings.  We recently celebrated our 100th birthday here at St. Peter's and we are looking forward to a successful future providing excellent education for early years.

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Make sure you get enough sleep!  Research shows that not only does sleep help our bodies to work more efficiently, but also helps our brains to develop.  A good night's sleep also strengthens our immune systems, helping to protect us from illness. Daily (or nightly!) sleep recommendations are as follows:

Children aged 3-5: around 12 hours
Children aged 5-12: around 10 hours
Teenagers: around 9 hours
Adults: around 7-8 hours
 

Please contact us if you would like a copy of our prospectus.

Our latest Ofsted Report is available for download at www.ofsted.gov.uk

Site Last Updated: March 2010
Created and maintained by: Colette Lynch