Acting Headteacher's Welcome

We warmly welcome you to our wonderful village school at the heart of our community.  I am pleased to introduce myself as the Acting Headteacher at Beenham Primary School whilst the Substantive Headteacher, Mrs Donnelly, is on sabbatical leave until September 2025.  

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We are all very proud of our small village school and the community it belongs to. The school has a strong family ethos that is underpinned by our core values of independence, responsibility, confidence, co-operation, resilience and care.

Our school motto is: Valuing ourselves. Valuing everybody. Throughout the children's time at our school, we aim for them to develop an appreciation for and tolerance of others, as well as core personal values. These all help the children to know and understand themselves throughout their time with us and in their lives beyond primary school.

All those in the Beenham Primary School community are ambitious for our children. We expect the highest quality in all our relationships, work and behaviour. Our school prides itself on having an outstanding understanding of our children and recognises that each child is an individual and learns in their own way. At Beenham Primary School, we believe that learning is the process by which children acquire and assimilate knowledge, concepts, skills, values and attitudes to enable them to make greater sense of the world: our holistic view of education and development supports every child to achieve success in meaningful ways. 

We believe that for our children to thrive, their safety and happiness is paramount and at the core of our approach. We want to develop successful learners who are curious, motivated, courageous and understand that by making mistakes they aid learning. We work to instill a love of learning that will continue into their next education chapter and beyond.

We encourage and welcome visits to our school. Please contact the school office to make an appointment.

Miss Sophie McBean

'It's a small school embedded in a village community. The children meet others in their village and the parents get to know them too. This allows the children greater independence and safety as they go around the village. I think the values based learning is amazing. Taking responsibility and learning values is essential for life. The children have also got to do a great variety of activities and learning has always been fun.'

July 2021

We were quite nervous of how our timid, quiet son would get on at primary school. The change in him over the first half-term has been amazing! 

His confidence has grown so much, and he is really enjoying interacting with other students and taking part in

the class activities. The school provides a caring and nurturing environment that really suits him. 

We have been particularly impressed by the personalised attention he receives from his teachers.

We couldn't have wanted more for the beginning of his school journey.

October 2021