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About our school
The Grange Primary School is a two-form entry school situated not far from
the centre of Scunthorpe town on Cornwall Road, Ashby. Until June 2016,
we were located across two sites. Our site is secluded in a quiet area, on
extensive grounds with a large games field, which provides opportunities for
a wide range of sports and environmental projects.
Our building has two floors. The ground floor houses:
Main office
Two halls – multi-purpose
Kitchen - where all meals are prepared and cooked
Foundation Stage 1 and 2
Key Stage 1 – Years 1 and 2
Medical Room
Well stocked Learning Resource Centre
Two group rooms known as Rainbow Rooms used for small group
intervention work including speech and language therapy,
phonics, nurture, inclusion and pastoral workshops.
The first floor houses:
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Key Stage 2 – Years 3 to 6
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Three Rainbow Rooms
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Two DT/Practical rooms used for Art, Technology, Science
and Computing – multi-purpose rooms
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Well stocked Learning Resource Centre
Our Learning Resources Centres (housing the library) operate
an electronic library system. Technology is used effectively
to enhance our pupils’ learning and to this effect we have a
state-of-the-art internet system, several networked computers, video conferencing
equipment and every teaching room has an up-to-date interactive teaching and learning
board to further enable whole class and interactive teaching. The Foundation Stage Two
(Reception) learning space has a very innovative interactive learning and teaching floor
with over 800 resources. We also have an extensive range of handheld innovative devices
that support our pupils with their learning.
The school has facilities to cater for disabled pupils and visitors (eg a lift for wheel
chair users) and ensures full access to the curriculum for all pupils with special
educational needs.
All classes are single age classes and as much as the budget allows, we try our best to
have small class sizes. This organisation can change from year-to-year depending on
the numbers within each age group. If we do have to have age-mix groupings, children
are taught the required balanced curriculum at their individual level by their own class
teacher, occasionally in subject sets or team teaching situations.
We work hard to ensure that our school is a place where outstanding teaching and
learning takes place, and that it has the reputation of a school that really cares for the
children and families in our community. When we refer to “our” school, we do not just
refer to the building but all those people who work within it and who bring their own
unique contribution to their duty of helping to equip our children for their future in this
ever rapidly changing world.