North Primary School A GSG School
- North Primary School
Meadow Road
Southall
UB1 2JE - Head: Ms Nicola Forster
- T 020 8571 7749
- F 020 8574 0629
- E admin@north.ealing.sch.uk
- W www.northprimary.co.uk/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Ealing
- Pupils: 406
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: July; contact school for others
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Early years provision Good 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2
- 1 Short inspection 20th September 2023
- 2 Full inspection 1st May 2018
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 20th November 2006
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Visitors are greeted at the door by a colourful montage of art, reflecting the diversity of the school, with a collage of religious symbols served up on paper plates, and an appliqué wallhanging of local landmarks, from the famous Southall water tower to shops selling Asian sweets. In the reception class exotic instruments lay ready to play at one of the many school celebrations: Eid, Easter, Diwali, Holi, Chinese new year; ‘It’s one big party,’ laughs the head.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2015, Nicola Forster BA NPQH PGDip (mid 40s). With a personal pedigree from the best Ealing schools, Ms Forster took a degree in geography and education at Roehampton, before beginning work in the first (of eight) London primary schools. She was promoted from acting head at Hathaway Primary to head at Ryefield Primary, Uxbridge, before joining North Primary, following its troubled spell making headlines over the solar eclipse. Inspired to teach by her mother’s example, ‘I learnt from an early age how you could influence children’s lives through teaching,’ she is at ease in her trainers and sportswear (‘I’ll put on a dress for the town hall!’) despite having just run four times round the neighbouring sports fields with the children for Sports Relief.
Parents showed guarded respect; ‘We...
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Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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