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SCHOOL REPORT K
Loddiswell Primary School
TOP FIVE FACTS: Number of pupils: 108 Teaching staff: Four full-time and two part-time teachers, five teaching assistants Ofsted rating: Good School motto: Kind, safe and responsible Last school trip: Year five residential to Heatree Activity Centre on Dartmoor
MEET THE HEAD TEACHER:
Lou Nicholls The new purpose-built Loddiswell Primary School sits on a spacious and airy site, surround- ed by greenery. Ms Nicholls said: “We moved to our new site last Easter and love it here. It was sad to leave the old site – especially as a lot of our parents and grandparents had been pupils there - but we were basically on a round- about of a road. PE lessons were regularly interrupted by a tractor or lorry going past. “A new school had been talked about for years – until it was built no one believed it would happen. The land was gifted very generously by local farmer Paul Harvey, and with a growing village population and nowhere to extend the old school, it was time to move. “The new site is so much more peaceful and light and
airy with so much outdoor space. The children said: ‘it’s so big!’ when they walked into their new classrooms.” The new space has lent itself to more focus on physical education. Ms Nicholls said: “There’s so much more space to play outside. We have a whole field to ourselves where we had our first sports day this year. We had a sports field before but had to walk over the main road and through the village to get to it.” “We timetable little activity breaks that help the children
to be physically and mentally ready to learn. They can also start the day with ten minutes in the games area, a chance to get in some physical activity before they start lessons.” As well as head of school, Ms Nicholls teaches four days
a week. She’s been head teacher for three years and teach- ing at the school for seven.
Beechwood Park, Loddiswell, Kingsbridge, TQ7 4BY 01548 550295
www.loddiswellprimaryschool.co.uk
ingsbridge and its surrounding villages are lucky to have a number of thriving primary schools which all have something different to offer our local families. Here in The Post, we put the spotlight on each of the schools introducing their staff and their all important pupils.
“The year sixes leaving this summer were my first foundation year and my first teaching job out of university, so it was an emotional leaving assembly!” Ms Nicholls said Loddiswell is still very much a village school. “All the children work together, we’re very much a school family. There’s a lovely family feel to Loddiswell – all our staff and the children work together as a team. We have a very active PTFA, which runs lots of community events, and we still go down to the parish church for Christmas carols.” There’s a school focus on reading for enjoyment at the moment, with a challenge to get the children to read 100 books, including a book swap room where children and parents exchange books they’ve read. The school also has a garden where the children
grow vegetables that are used in the school dinners. Ms Nicholls added: “At the old site our meals were
cooked at Malborough and brought in. Now we have a fantastic new kitchen and our cook Anne-Marie takes on board the children’s ideas and uses themes like around the world, and the environment.”
“We moved to our new site last Easter and love it here.”
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