Heath
Hayes
Curriculum
Extra
Curricular Activities
Links with
the Community
SAT Results
OFSTED Report
Meet the
children
Gorsemoor Primary School is a 5 - 11 Primary school, which also has an Early Years Unit for the under 5's. The school is situated in South Staffordshire only a few miles from Cannock Chase which is an Area of Outstanding Beauty. Fourteen miles to the south is the city of Birmingham and eight miles to the east is the historic city of Lichfield with it's famous 3 spired cathedral.
Our address is:
Tel: 01543 274788
e-mail:
headteacher@gorsemoor.staffs.sch.uk
I.C.T. Co-ordinator: Mrs. B. S. Heath
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Heath Hayes was a small mining village which developed in the mid-Victorian era when large deposits of coal were discovered. This is part of the South Staffordshire coalfield. Before long there were many mines in the area and the village grew to the north of the present Five Ways roundabout, which has always been a busy meeting of roads in the area.
Today Heath Hayes is a large and developing commuter area with many houses having been built in the past 10 years, increasing the population many times over.
The school offers the full range of the National Curriculum to all its pupils. In addition children are taught P.H.S.E.throughout the school. There is a strong emphasis on the welfare of the child and how they may make the most of the opportunities that will be offered to them during their education.
The school also offers a variety of activities in addition to the work which is undertaken in the classrooms in timetabled classroom time. At present these include a choir and recorder groups, several dance groups and foreign language groups.
The school links closely with the community and there are links with the local shops, the Ranger Service, the churches and the local nursing home to name but a few. The local Co-Op has been host to several visits and has provided materials for a recent small enterprise initative. In recent years the children have been involved in many tree planting schemes and other projects to improve the local environment. The latest project involves the planting of over 500 trees in the school grounds to provide a shelter belt on our very exposed field and to provide the children examples of the trees, after which, their houses are named viz. ash, holly, oak and pine.
SAT results are available from the DFEE web site for the whole county of Staffordshire. Our results are presented here for the past 3 years and will be updated each year during July.
The school was inspected in February and a brief summary of the report follows. The full report is available from the OFSTED web site.
This section is in the process of being updated and comments from the children will appear here.