Wilbury is a vibrant and happy school with a hardworking, enthusiastic, and dedicated staff team. We have a very well established and experienced senior leadership team and a school ethos of no excuses, the highest expectations, urgency, and children and staff at the heart of all we do. 

We are a large, three-form-entry primary school in Edmonton, North London, in an area of significant deprivation and children can start school with us from 2 years of age. 70% of our pupils speak English as an additional language and the vast majority of our children start school with very low-level language skills. 

For us, early intervention is key, and we are focusing on language development in all its forms with a clear emphasis on vocabulary, oracy/speaking and reading. We are constantly looking to refine and improve practice in these areas whilst also providing targeted interventions to struggling learners both prior to, and at the end of, the school day. We strongly believe our curriculum is our children’s opportunity and we aim to provide the knowledge, skills, and opportunities to create a level playing field and improve the life chances for all our educationally disadvantaged pupils.

 We have a strong ethos of inclusion and crucially a compassionate approach towards engaging and supporting our children and parents. There is collective understanding of the impact of disadvantage on pupils’ learning, as well as their health and welfare, and staff at every level speak with one voice about our ambition for all our pupils and they all fully understand the part they play in addressing educational disadvantage.  

There is a sharp focus on the quality of pupils’ learning experiences. Our leadership team play a significant role in evaluating progress through ongoing, and crucially, supportive monitoring and quality assurance. They devote time to our staff for collaborative team planning, teaching, and modelling by spending time in classrooms to provide on the spot coaching, training, and immediate feedback to develop practice.

We are very successful in terms of attainment and results. Our statutory results – EYFSP (Reception), phonics screening check (year 1), multiplication times table check (year 4) and Key Stage 2 SATs in all subjects are consistently above national figures.