St Michael's Primary School, Withyham

Welcome to St Michael’s Community Primary School, located at the heart of Withyham village, at the eastern edge of Hartfield. East Sussex.  We are a small, happy school with the philosophy that, young or old, we are all learning and growing together.

St Michael's is a really special place, we value spending time outdoors and using the world around us to inform our learning.  I have taught in many schools, understanding the importance of the natural world. Engaging with nature supports learning and personal well being. We have the most wonderful school grounds and we make the most of them to enrich learning experiences.  This ensures our pupils will be happy, successful learners and achieve high standards.

As you walk round the school you will pass pots of plants growing. As a school community, we carefully plan and care for these, making sure  thay have the best opportunities to grow and thrive.  These plants represent the essence of St Michael's; our dedicated staff team strive to achieve the best educational outcomes for all children, whatever their starting points.

We welcome children from the local area as well as further afield from Crowborough, Tunbridge Wells and Cowden.  Uniquely, children joining St Michael's in our Reception Class are fortunate to begin their journey in a small friendly, group where they spend time each day interacting with year 1 children.  Nurture is at the heart of our curriculum enrichment and well being approach is at the heart of all that we do in every year group.  Our small  class sizes allow us to be child- centred  from the moment your child begins school with us.

 We have four classes, arranged as follows:

Acorn Class- Reception 
Elm Class- Year 1/2
Silver Birch Class- Year 3/4
Oak Class- Year 5/6

Pupil Voice - We have a School Council who are involved in making decisions about how we run the school.  We are particularly looking at how we can develop imaginative play outside.  More information about this may be found on our OPAL web page. 

Pupil Voice is important to us all, and the School Council regularly feed back ideas from Class Councils in which all children participate.

I look forward to meeting you to tell you more about life at St Michael's . Please take a moment to see examples of inspiring learning at St Michael's below. 

Catherine O'Shea 

Head Teacher