Welcome to our School

On behalf of the Governors, staff and pupils, I am delighted to welcome you and your child to Tickhill Estfeld Primary School, a place where people matter. All the staff strive to provide a happy working environment and an exciting and inspiring curriculum.

I believe that every child is entitled to a quality education in a caring environment. All children are special and should be made to feel so; they should be valued, respected and nurtured. We want our children to reach their potential and become ‘well rounded’ and ‘well adjusted’ adults. I am proud that our school is a learning community, a place where children and adults eagerly work and learn together in a secure, happy, exciting and challenging environment.

Our school’s vision is ‘Inspiring and nurturing our children to have a love of learning, a spirit of curiosity and a desire to fulfil their potential’ and we believe that this is appropriate now more than ever. Developing successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens for now and the future is Estfeld’s aim. We want children to enjoy and achieve now, so they feel good about themselves and have a thirst for learning more. We also work hard to prepare them for a wider world of rapid change, advanced technology and jobs that may not yet been invented.

The quality of your child’s education and learning is paramount to us. I can assure you that we are totally committed to the care and development of all our pupils and hope that your child will be very happy here. I firmly believe that a trusting partnership between home and school lies at the heart of a successful educational experience for your child. You are warmly invited to join in our many and varied school activities and to share the experiences all pupils will have throughout the important years spent in their primary school. Our website gives you an overview of our school; however, we would be very happy to meet you and show you around in person. Should you choose to join our school or pay us a visit, we can assure you that you will be made to feel welcome.

We aim to establish a firm partnership between parents and teachers from the beginning so that the education and the development of all the children can be shared. 

We recognise and value the key role parents play in the education of their children and we aim to promote a firm partnership between parents and school whereby the education and the development of children is shared, understood and enhanced.

A Home-School Agreement outlines in more detail these expectations and it is hoped that parents sign this agreement when their child commences school.

Involvement in and understanding of school life is fostered and built on through a wide variety of activities including, helping in school in numerous ways, open evenings, class based visits as well as social and fund raising events, supported by an active Home and School Association.

We realise and value parental participation which occurs at home as well as at school and encourages this through shared reading and other activities which involve parents in their child’s education.

We try to create and foster an open atmosphere where parents and staff communicate freely and where parents opinions, support and involvement are highly valued.

I hope to meet you and welcome into our happy school very soon.

Mrs Amanda Painter

Headteacher