Welcome to
Willerby Carr Lane Primary School
We dream big; we believe we can; we achieve excellence.
A very warm welcome to Willerby Carr Lane Primary School! As Headteacher, it’s a privilege to lead such a vibrant and caring community school.
At Willerby Carr Lane we provide a top-quality curriculum that is well-matched to all pupils’ individual needs. We also deliver the highest levels of support and nurture for all. Building independence, self-belief and a love of learning are at the centre of everything we do. This ensures that our children have excellent outcomes and are well-prepared for bright futures in whatever they choose. We ensure that our children set their aspirations high and then we make sure that they achieve them – our children deserve nothing less!
We recognise each of our children as unique, special and distinctive individuals and teach them to value diversity in others. Alongside our mainstream school we also have an Enhanced Resource Provision for children with significant communication and interaction special educational needs.
The pages of this website will give you a flavour of life at Willerby Carr Lane Primary School. If you can’t find what you are looking for then please don’t hesitate to contact us. If you are thinking of sending your child to our school, we would welcome the opportunity to show you around so that you can meet the pupils and staff who make our school the calm, vibrant and happy environment that it is.
Mrs Laura Widdowson
Headteacher
‘Student Responsibility and Community Engagement: The school offers numerous lunchtime and after-school clubs, fostering interests in sports and creative arts.’
‘Student Responsibility and Community Engagement: Pupils also engage in community activities, like making Christmas food hampers and starting a road safety campaign.’
‘Effective Phonics Teaching: The phonics leader ensures consistent teaching of phonics across the school.’
‘Support for Early Career Teachers: An emotional literacy support assistant has been employed to enhance the special educational needs and disabilities team, providing valuable support to parents and pupils.’
‘Effective Phonics Teaching: The school is considering a new phonics program to maintain high-quality teaching.’
‘Student Responsibility and Community Engagement: Year 6 pupils are given responsibilities, such as being ‘dinner buddies’ and leading celebration assemblies.’
‘Enthusiastic Curriculum Leaders: Pupils, including those with special needs, benefit from scaffolded tasks and appropriately pitched work.’
‘Governance and Safeguarding: Safeguarding arrangements are effective, with consistent training and comprehensive incident logging.’
‘Effective Phonics Teaching: Reading books match the taught sounds, and additional support is provided for pupils needing extra help.’
‘Happy and Safe Environment: Pupils feel happy and safe at school, working cooperatively and responding well to teachers’ instructions. They perceive the behavior policy as fair and report that bullying is rare.’
‘Support for Early Career Teachers: The school supports early career teachers with training from subject leaders.’
‘Enthusiastic Curriculum Leaders: Curriculum leaders have clear visions for their subjects, with PE and mathematics leaders investing in schemes to support teachers.’
‘Well-Planned Curriculum: The school has redesigned its curriculum to build on existing knowledge, with all teachers responsible for specific areas.’
‘Wider Development Opportunities: The school promotes pupils’ wider development through opportunities beyond the curriculum, such as links with a school in Uganda, debates, sustainability awareness, and diverse role models.’
‘Well-Planned Curriculum: Curriculum leaders have developed knowledge organisers to identify key knowledge, skills, and vocabulary, which are shared with families and pupils.’
‘Governance and Safeguarding: Governors have a strong understanding of the school’s strengths and areas for improvement, effectively supporting and challenging the school leadership.’
