St Clement & St James CE Primary School

Key information About St Thomas

Beyond the curriculum

At St Clement & St James CE Primary School, we recognise that providing pupils with enriching experiences enhances their learning and helps to develop cultural capital. We aim to offer all our pupils a wide range of enrichment opportunities that support and extend their learning across the curriculum. These experiences are carefully planned to complement and enhance learning in all curriculum subjects, going beyond the expectations of the national curriculum.

Alongside high-quality teaching and learning in the classroom, we aim for every pupil to have the opportunity to:

Clubs

We believe in enriching pupils’ experiences by providing a wide range of extra-curricular clubs that run every day after school. There should be no barriers to participation, so we are incredibly proud that all of these are offered free of charge and that every pupil has access to club opportunities. Our aim is to capture and extend pupils’ interests through our provision: current clubs include coding, science club, art club, sewing, handball, gymnastics, and cricket.

Throughout their time at school, we provide pupils with opportunities to represent St Clement & St James CE Primary School in a variety of sports teams. Our teams compete with other local primary schools, for example in football, athletics and swimming. Sports fixtures are also organised after school against local schools or through club competitions.

Parental Involvement

Pupils at St Clement & St James CE Primary School are given the termly opportunity to showcase their learning to parents and carers, as well as to other pupils across the school. They are encouraged to speak and present to audiences of different sizes.

This may include sharing their engineering projects, holding an art exhibition, presenting during a class assembly, or teaching their parents during a mathematics lesson.

School Trips

We carefully plan museum visits for all year groups each year that support learning across the curriculum. Some of these places include the Design Museum, the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Bank of England Museum, the Science Museum, the Petrie Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. We also take part in special projects and learning programmes with museums.

At St Clement & St James CE Primary School, we ensure pupils learn about a diverse range of artists from around the world. Each year, pupils are given the opportunity to visit an art gallery, such as the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, and the Wallace Collection.

As part of our RE curriculum, we ensure that pupils learn about a range of major world religions and have opportunities to visit different places of worship. These may include a local synagogue, a local mosque, and the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Temple. We also regularly visit our local churches.

Our Year 5 pupils travel to a location outside of London to an outdoor education centre where they spend four nights camping. During this time, they take part in a wide range of activities and develop new skills that cannot be taught in a classroom setting. These include team building, orienteering, archery, campfire and shelter building, as well as high-rope activities.

Special Weeks

Throughout the academic year there are opportunities to engage with local and national competitions. In recent years, these have included: The Reader’s Cup with the Thomas’ Foundation, the Primary Maths Challenge and local Maths Cluster events, and the Leighton House Art Competition.

Pupils will have the opportunity each year throughout their time at St Clement & St James CE Primary School to perform and showcase their dancing, singing, and acting skills. These performances include a Christmas production, the KS2 Spring Cabaret, and an end of key stage musical.

Our school is located along the route of the Notting Hill Carnival, and we want our pupils to understand the significance of this internationally recognised event and its musical traditions. Lessons are taught by a professional steel pan musician, and pupils are given regular opportunities to perform. These performances may take place during Christmas events, at our own school carnival each summer, and, when possible, within the wider community.

OPAL Play

At LifeFull Schools we realise that learning happens beyond the classroom and so we use OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) to create diverse, engaging play opportunities for children at break times. 

OPAL is a programme that enhances the quality of outdoor play for primary school pupils by providing a wide range of play opportunities during break times. Pupils can engage in active, creative, and imaginative play using varied materials and natural environments. These opportunities encourage physical activity, helping to improve health and fitness, while also promoting creativity through open-ended play like building, role-play, and exploring nature.

At playtimes, pupils have the chance to collaborate, problem-solve, and develop social skills by working together in group play. OPAL also allows children to manage risk in a controlled, safe environment, fostering resilience and confidence. The programme improves emotional well-being, reduces behavioural issues, and makes school more enjoyable, enhancing overall engagement and learning.

"It is everyone's responsibility to protect children" KCSIE 2021

Safeguarding

St Clement & St James CE Primary School is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for children, staff and visitors. We promote a culture where children and adults feel confident in sharing any concerns they may have about their own safety or the wellbeing of others.

Our Safeguarding team is led by Alys Stephens, the Designated Safeguarding Lead for the school. She is supported in this role by Sarah Bouette, Adrian Jones and Ellie Dowthwaite (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads).

If you have a safeguarding concern about the welfare of a child, you must report this immediately to the Designated Safeguarding Lead or to any senior member of staff.

Online Safety

We offer regular awareness sessions for parents around online safety and protecting children from online risks, so please do attend when these are advertised. Please see our E-safety for Parents guide for further information. You will also find an online safety tip in every school newsletter, designed to raise awareness of current trends and issues. If you have any concerns about the online safety of your child, please do come and speak to us.

Online Safety

How Do We Teach Online Safety?

Teaching children how to stay safe online is a key part of our approach to teaching digital literacy. Online safety is taught through Computing lessons from Year 1 to Year 6. At Key Stage 1, children look at the importance of keeping personal information private online, what to do if they have a problem while using technology, and issues around cyberbullying. At Key Stage 2, children develop a deeper understanding of these issues, and also look at concepts such as our digital footprint, risks arising from downloading files, and website security.

Children use the SMART rules at school, and are expected to use these when using technology out of school, to make sure that they stay safe online. These rules should be followed when using any device that connects to the Internet, including mobile phones, tablets and games consoles.

School day

Wraparound Care

St Clement & St James Breakfast Club

Breakfast club is open from 8am until 8.40am when the children go to their class.  The cost of Breakfast Club is £2.00 per session, free to children who are in receipt of free school meals.  Children receive a breakfast of either apple or orange juice, a selection of cereals, toast with butter and jam.  Breakfast club can be booked via the Gateway App.  Children can arrive after 8.20pm free of charge. (they will not receive breakfast after this time).  If you have any questions please contact the school office.

St Clement and St James After School Clubs

We run clubs from 3.30pm-4.30pm every evening. There is a range of sports and arts on offer. These are updated each term.

After School Care up to 5.45pm

From Monday 27th January 2025  The after school provision is being provided off site at St Francis of Assisi school.  SCSJ staff will walk the children to the provision at 3.30pm and you will be required to collect your child from there by 5.45pm. There is a £10 daily charge and bookings need to be made a week in advance.

If you would like your child to attend the wraparound care at St Francis, please complete the form

SFA Wraparound Club Pupil Information & Consent Form (External Pupils)  with your child’s details. You will be contacted with information on how to book and make payment.

School lunches

Our school lunches are designed to be healthy, balanced, and enjoyable, providing pupils with the necessary nutrition to stay focused and energized throughout the school day. We work closely with our catering team to offer a variety of fresh options that cater to all dietary requirements and promote lifelong healthy eating habits.

Autumn 2025 Menu

Worship In Our Schools

Collective Worship promotes and supports achievement and growth in five aspects of pupils’ religious learning at St Thomas’ CE Primary School. These are:  

  • A knowledge of Christianity; its stories, traditions, festivals, worship and teachings

  • An understanding of Christian life and worship which may, if the pupil chooses, form the basis of an adult faith

  • An awareness of life’s spiritual dimension

  • A sense of Christian morality through our Christian values

  • A knowledge and respect for the other major world faiths

Through the above, we aim to help children to:

  • develop an awareness of spiritual and moral issues within their own life experiences and those of others

  • develop knowledge, understanding and respect for the range of religious and cultural practices found within: their own community; the local area; Britain and internationally

  • develop an understanding of what it means to be committed to a religious tradition

  • develop inquisitive minds that are willing to investigate, research, question and empathise to enable them to make reasoned judgements about religious issues.