Partnerships

Our school, alongside our other Trust schools, is integrating Apple technology into every aspect of teaching and learning so that children can access their curriculum in a way that supports them individually.  Our staff benefit from personalised training linked to our curriculum topics in order to ensure that the digital technology benefits and aids children’s learning within a given topic.

We are delighted to announce that the Woodland Academy Trust has been recognised as the Apple Regional Training Centre (RTC) for Kent and Bexley! For more information, click here to visit our Trust website.

Our school, alongside our other Trust schools, is integrating Apple technology into every aspect of teaching and learning so that children can access their curriculum in a way that supports them individually.  Our staff benefit from personalised training linked to our curriculum topics to ensure that the digital technology benefits and aids children’s learning within a given topic. 

We are delighted to announce that the Woodland Academy Trust has been recognised as the Apple Regional Training Centre (RTC) for Kent and Bexley! For more information, click here to visit our Trust website.

Northumberland Heath Primary School is proud to support our local foodbank.  

Bexley Foodbank is a project that works across our local authority providing emergency food and support to local people from our local community.  Our nearest foodbank is located in Erith.

Northumberland Heath Primary will be a registered centre to distribute vouchers.

Erith Foodbank - Queen Street Baptist Church, Queen Street, Erith, DA8 1RP

Open Wednesdays 9.30-12.30pm and Saturdays 10-12pm

Bexleyheath Foodbank - Trinity Baptist Church, Rear of Trinity Place, Bexleyheath, DA6 7AY
Open Mondays 1-3pm and Fridays 10.30-12.30pm

If anyone attends the Foodbank they are required to take proof of address as well as records of any children living at the address.

Remember to always take a bag with you.

Collections – Northumberland Heath Primary School is committed to supporting the excellent work of our local Foodbank and have a collection point at the main reception area.

The foodbank would very much like items such as:

Tinned – Meat, Fish, Fruit, Sweetcorn, Carrots, Peas, Rice pudding, Custard, Tomatoes, Spaghetti

Long life milk & fruit juice 

Jam

Coffee

Biscuits 

Sweet treats 

Deodorant

Shower gel

Toothpaste 

Currently, our local foodbank does not need items such as: cereal, pasta, beans, tea.

Thank you for your support.

Our school is a member of Children’s University delivered through London South East Children’s University (LSECU).  The Education Endowment Foundation has Children’s University listed as a promising project and we are delighted that a member of the central trust team sits on the LSECU strategic board which gives us an insight into the programme, new developments and progress being made.

We are delighted to be working with our local football club - Erith Town FC.  They will be utilising our fantastic facilities and providing our community of children and families with opportunities to engage in local events run by the team. 

Northumberland Heath Primary School has a fantastic nursery provision on site run by Jacqueline's Gems Child Care Services who work in partnership with our Trust. 

Website: Click here

They also offer a breakfast club, after school clubs and holiday clubs.

To register your interest for extra curricular clubs please see their website. 

Our school is a member of Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised which is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools.  The programme is based on the original Letters and Sounds but has been revised to provide schools with a complete teaching programme (meeting expectations of the National Curriculum), the Ofsted deep dive into reading and preparing children to go beyond the expectations of the phonics screening check.

Our school has been given the opportunity to take part in a project that runs jointly between schools and the Metropolitan Police. 

Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools by police prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has been exposed to, or involved in, any domestic incident involving police intervention. 

Operation Encompass will ensure that a member of the school staff - the Designated Safeguarding Lead - is trained to allow liaison with the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence, whilst ensuring that the school is able to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children, or their families, who have been involved in, or exposed to, a domestic abuse incident. 

As a school, we are keen to offer the best support possible to all of our pupils and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved. 

Time Capsule provide our school with a wide range of educational experiences all linked to our bespoke curriculum – all designed to provide children with a desire to discover learning in which to immerse themselves in.    Time Capsule can often be found supporting the delivery of our Big Bang Days – feedback from the children and teachers is always overwhelmingly positive and provide a great start to new topic learning.

Our school is also proud to work alongside them on Trust based projects such as; involving parents, carers and teachers in reading for pleasure and our most recent video project focused on numbers in the early years.

We work in close partnership with the University of Greenwich; particularly linked to their Initial Teacher Training programme whereby we offer university placements for student teachers as well as professional development days.  Our staff provide student teachers with professional learning by offering a wide range of experiences and opportunities to reflect on pedagogical practice and spending time in the classrooms to see the lived experience in action.

The University of Greenwich has benefitted from the strong partnership established with The Woodlands Academy Trust over many years.  The university organises professional development days each year that offer an opportunity for students to benefit from the expertise and deeper understanding of key pedagogical themes pertinent to their professional teaching development. The trust has a history of working in close partnership with the university by hosting groups of students across their schools, including Northumberland Heath, as well as generously offering to participate in live sessions online and sharing high quality resources.  The impact of this has been substantial with students reporting how much their subject knowledge has developed by learning from the experience and expertise of members of the trust.  It has been a genuine pleasure working together.

Greenwich University

We are delighted to be working with Bexley Local Authority and the London Mayor's Office Violence Reduction Team on the Talk Matters project.

You can find out more information about their work by following the link below:

VRU London City Hall

The Talk Matters programme has been developed in recognition of the vital partnership that is crucial to provide better support for young Londoners so that they are safe and can thrive in school.  We, alongside, 34 other primary schools across 7 boroughs are taking part and our focus is all about improving speech, language and communication needs.   We are seeking to improve early language development, wellbeing and school engagement because we know early identification of communication needs can reduce the likelihood of school exclusion as well as keeping vulnerable children safe. 

We will be embarking on an Oracy project which we look forward to sharing more information about soon. 

The Wellbeing Award is a whole-school award which focuses on ensuring effective practice and provision is in place that promotes the emotional wellbeing and mental health of both children and staff.

We are proud that our school worked alongside the award programme facilitators to achieve this award.

Our school is currently working with Paul Dix and his team to evaluate, reflect and refine our school approach to relationships and behaviour.