Great Gaddesden CE (VA) Primary School

Great Gaddesden Primary praised for "strong" personal development hemeltoday.co.uk/education/grea…

We are delighted to get the ‘green light’ in all areas from our recent Ofsted inspection! Inspectors noted Personal Development & Wellbeing as a particular strength which was awarded the ‘Strong Standard’ Click the link below to read the report: greatgaddesden.herts.sch.uk/web/ofsted__si…

We are ready for the start of Advent! The tree is up, the lights are on, the liturgical season colour is on the worship table, the post box is ready and the value of the month has changed to ‘Hope’…all we need now is the children’s decorations which they will each add on Monday.

This morning we had our annual Macmillan Coffee Morning! Thank you for all of the donations and support. A special thank you to our Year 6 children for helping to serve cakes and refreshments #MacmillanCoffeeMorning #CommunityEvent @macmillancancer

On 26th September, we are pleased to be taking part in the national Macmillan Coffee morning. It will take place after drop off until 10am and our Year 6 children will be serving refreshments. We warmly welcome cake & sweet treat donations. See you then! ☕️

Along with a recently refurbished Early Years unit, Great Gaddesden also has the following: •Small class sizes •Warm, nurturing environment •Skilled staff that know all the children as unique individuals (please refer to our SIAMs report) Please get in touch to book a tour!

Early Years have been doing some excellent writing by practising their names! Well done everyone!

Welcome back to another academic year at Great Gaddesden! We had our annual blessing of the school this morning led by Mrs Tisbury.

We are delighted to share the outcome and report from our recent SIAMS inspection! greatgaddesden.herts.sch.uk/storage/secure…

As our Year 6 children are sadly nearing the end of their journey at Great Gaddesden, they all enjoyed a fun day out together at Chessington today! ☀️🎢🐯🦒

It has been another gloriously sunny week here at Great Gaddesden! Have a lovely weekend!

Beautiful singing today from the children of Great Gaddesden at the Church for the Patronal St John the Baptist festival and thanks to Mr Russell.

In RE today, Y3/4 learnt about the Anglican 5 marks of mission. The children then reflected on which they thought was the most significant.

The Early Years planter is looking wonderful! The sunflowers are starting to grow very quickly!

Are you still looking for the right Nursery or Reception place? Have you considered Great Gaddesen? We are a small school with a big heart nearby to Hemel Hempstead, Potten End and Berkhamsted. We only have a few spaces left! 📞01442 255734 📩admin@greatgaddesden.herts.sch.uk

Year 3&4 had an Anglo-Saxon themed forest school session this week. The children dyed some cloth using natural materials such as berries, plant roots and tumeric!

Our Y6 leavers hoodies arrived today! Thank you @BeatUniforms our Year 6 children are delighted!

Lots more exciting and creative activities today at After School Club!

After school club have enjoyed some exciting new activities in the sunshine! We are now open until 6 on a Monday, Wednesday and Thursday! ☀️ 🎨 🌳

Today, our Early Years children really enjoyed visiting a local farm! They fed the animals and gained lots of new knowledge about them all.