West Jesmond Primary School

General information

West Jesmond is a truly unique school with a long history of successfully providing the highest quality education in Jesmond since 1901. In that time there have been many changes to education and indeed our wonderful school building but throughout the past 111 years we have always prided ourselves in making our children feel special and nurtured their talents in all areas of the curriculum.Opened over one hundred years ago, West Jesmond Primary is a thriving, successful school. On 2 March 2009 pupils and staff moved into a superb, purpose-built new building. Building on the strengths and traditions of the original school, West Jesmond provides a broad and exciting education for children aged four to eleven. Providing children with a secure environment that actively encourages their academic, personal and social development is of the utmost importance.At West Jesmond Primary School we provide each pupil with a rich and varied curriculum, delivered through stimulating and memorable learning opportunities, designed to meet the requirements as set out in the current National Curriculum.
In order to ensure your child develops and secures the necessary skills and knowledge for life- long learning, a strong foundation in Mathematics and English can be found at the heart of all our curriculum activities. Built around these core skills, is the wider curriculum; stimulating, varied, challenging, localised, environmentally aware and most of all exciting for our children.
Enhancing this curriculum, throughout the course of each school year, are regular field excursions and residential trips to regional galleries, local attractions and places of interest such as Bede’s World, Beamish Museum and Hadrian’s Wall. Children in Year 6 attend a residential trip to Robin Wood in the Tyne Valley