Head Teacher

Our most recent Ofsted inspection, in November 2009, resulted in Bourn Primary School
(pre-Academy) being awarded the grade of ‘Outstanding’. Bourn Primary became an Academy in November 2011: one of the first Primary schools in the county to convert to this status. The decision to become an Academy was taken to ensure that Bourn Primary had the freedom to decide how to educate our children, with the ability to use the funds allocated to best advantage. We immediately benefitted from making this move when, in June 2012, our application for funding from the Academy Capital Fund was successful. We are currently engaged in expanding our facilities, using the £730,000 grant that we received.

Bourn Primary is controlled directly by the Department for Education and supported by the Church of England. We currently have 7 classes of children within the age range 4 to 11 years.

We provide an inclusive education of the highest standard in accordance with our historic Church of England foundation. We teach respect and consideration for others and foster an awareness and tolerance of faiths and traditions. Our aim is that our children will become organised, confident, self-motivated, outward-looking and socially aware. We subscribe to the Church Schools ethos, provided by the Church of England.

The Academy’s culture is one of respect, tolerance, courtesy and good manners. Standards of behaviour are very high and this is regularly commented upon by visitors to Bourn Primary. Through good supervision and monitoring, together with effective communication with parents, any behavioural problems are identified early and interventions made quickly so that the problems are minimised.

The children’s moral and cultural development is very good and enhanced by international weeks, language days and links with schools overseas. We develop a strong social awareness in our children and encourage them to devise means to raise money to support local and international charities.

Bourn Primary is very much at the heart of the local community. We are located close to the centre of the village in extensive grounds adjacent to open fields. The Academy serves the villages of Bourn, Caxton, Longstowe and Kingston, a rural area of some 24 square miles. It sits within the catchment area of the renowned Comberton Village College, to which the vast majority of our children progress.

The Academy occupies modern, purpose-built premises which are currently being extended. We are particularly fortunate in our setting, as the buildings are surrounded by extensive playing fields and play areas, including a sensory garden and other informal garden areas, large mature trees and shady courtyards. Foundation Stage children have their own dedicated two-tiered outdoor space, leading from their classroom. We have wheelchair access to all areas.

Unusually, we have a mature nature reserve within our perimeter, which affords opportunities to study outdoors. The grounds are sufficiently spacious for several team sport areas, as well as two hard-play areas with tennis, netball and basketball courts. There is also a heated outdoor swimming pool, rebuilt in 2010, with its own changing rooms. A cricket pitch and nets were added in 2012.