St Anne's School History

Saint Anne's Catholic Primary School was opened in September 1970, with a total of 98 children on roll. There were 4 teaching staff along with the Head teacher.

Over the years, numbers have steadily increased. In the early 1990's a mobile unit was sited on our school playing field, it now houses our before and after school club.  A period of growth in the school now sees us with a roll of 210 school - aged pupils and 30 nursery children.

Over the summer holidays (of August 2019) we created our new Early Years Unit.   In addition, our new staff and visitors car park was created, which improved the security and safety of our site. In 2021, we saw the completion of our new front entrance, which has enhanced the security and safety at school for all of our pupils and staff.

In the Summer of 2022, we started the building of our new fixed classroom  to finally have all year groups taught in the main school building this was a very exciting time for our school. In March 2023 we had the correct amount of fixed classrooms for our pupils.  This is a fantastic achievement.

Our school is completely self - contained with its own hall (which also doubles as a well equipped gymnasium), school kitchen, dining hall, nurture/sensory room, 6 classrooms, cloakroom areas, Early Years unit, offices and staff room.

The building is surrounded by two large playgrounds (one infant, one junior), a large playing field and grassed areas. EYFS & Year 1 have their own outdoor classroom areas. We have recently developed a fabulous outdoor classroom, 'Woodlands Outdoor School' - this area is used by EYFS and KS1, and KS2 use it to enhance curriculum provision and to support groups of pupils.

Mrs Johnston is the third Head teacher of St Anne's, who succeeds Mrs Robinson and Mr Ward.