Houldsworth Valley Primary Academy
- Houldsworth Valley Primary Academy
Rowley Drive
Newmarket
Suffolk
CB8 0PU - Head: Mrs Lisa Tweed
- T 01638 663214
- F 01638 667356
- E office@houldswort…ley.suffolk.sch.uk
- W www.houldsworthvalley.co.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Suffolk
- Pupils: 329
- Religion: Does not apply
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Early years provision Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 6th November 2019
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What the school says...
Houldsworth Valley Primary School is a good school (Ofsted 2012) providing the very best educational experiences and securing high educational standards for pupils from the town of Newmarket and surrounding villages. Located at the heart of our community, Houldsworth Valley Primary School sits within open, leafy grounds, giving our pupils the space they need to think, learn, interact with others and grow.
Our School has been carefully developed to create highly effective conditions for learning, with spacious, bright and well organised classrooms and learning areas where a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum, personalised to meet the needs of all our children, from the very start of their school life, is successfully delivered. Our skilful and dedicated team of teachers and learning support staff ensure every individual becomes an astute, confident learner who makes good or better progress and attains accelerated achievement.
We are a happy, friendly and caring School, committed to our ethos The Best For All From Each The Best: working together, united by agreed aims and core School values which provide a happy, caring and stimulating environment where we know each of our pupils well and they are valued, encouraged and supported to achieve their fullest individual potential, empowering them to make their best contribution to the School community and society.
Our pupils are, without a doubt, the best measure of our success and I encourage you to come and visit us, meet our pupils, staff and governors and find out for yourself what makes Houldsworth Valley Primary School an inspiring learning community.
We look forward to meeting you. ...Read more
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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.
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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.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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