Rhodes Avenue Primary School serves part of Wood Green, close to Alexandra Palace and Muswell Hill, within the London Borough of Haringey. We are a three form entry school (this means there are 3 classes in each year group) and currently have 697 children on roll. The school has a very stable community and pupil mobility (where a child joins or leaves at a point other than the normal age in which children start or finish their education in primary school) is 3.29%. The percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) is 4.87% and the percentage eligible for Pupil Premium funding is 4.44%. The percentage of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) is 9.89% and the percentage of children with English as an Additional Language is 24.1%. Rhodes Avenue Primary School’s last OFSTED inspection was in September 2021 and the school was graded as Outstanding.
Rhodes Avenue Primary School benefits from spacious grounds and outdoor spaces. The children are accommodated in a range of buildings: the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) building is for one of our nursery classes and all of our Reception classes, the Key Stage 1 (KS1) building is for Years 1 and 2, the Key Stage 2 (KS2) building is for Years 3 to 6 and the Woodpecker building for our second nursery class. We also have an additional building that provides the following facilities – a Media/Computing Suite, an Art Room, a dedicated Music Room, an outdoor classroom and wellbeing pods for our counselling team.
Open classroom – Classroom doors will be open from 8.45am each day. The school gates, Rhodes Avenue entrance and the park gates, will open at 8.40am to allow the children to come into school and go straight into their classrooms for a soft start to the day. A range of morning activities will be available for the children to complete before doors close at 8.55am for the start of the school day. Children arriving after 8.55am will be marked as late and will have to sign in at the school office. Children will not be allowed to wait in the playgrounds and will be expected to come straight into school. Teachers from Reception to Year 4 will be at the classroom doors to welcome the children into school; teachers in Years 5 and 6 will be waiting to greet the children upstairs. The gates will continue to be managed by the Headship and/or Facilities Team.
Parents are not permitted to enter the school building and cannot cut through the Learning Village to access the Key Stage 2 playground; all visitors must be signed in at the school office. Children can be dropped at their classroom doors or if in Years 3-6 dropped via the library doors. If you use the Rhodes Avenue entrance and wish to see your Key Stage 2 child enter the classroom you must walk around the perimeter of the school building or use the park entrance. Parents will not be allowed to wait inside the school building during bad weather, dismissal will only happen from the external classrooms doors, and parents are politely asked to remain outside even if it’s raining.
We will continue to stagger the end of the school day to allow parents to collect multiple children. Children from Reception to Year 4 will always be dismissed to an adult via the classroom door, unless a meeting point within school has been previously arranged or the children attend an extended school activity. Reception will end the school day at 3.15pm, Years 1 and 2 will end at 3.20pm and Years 3 to 6 will end at 3.30pm. Year 5 and 6 will be dismissed from the bottom of their staircase into the playground to meet parents or walk home alone (if they have permission).
The school gates will close promptly at 9.05am and at 3.40pm each day.
The school has two Nurseries and we offer both full and part time places. Children are able to access either 15 hours of provision (2 ½ days per week ) or 30 hours of provision (5 days a week) for the core hours of 9am -3pm. Extended provision is also available for our nursery children for before and after the core hours; the nursery children are also able to access all holiday club provision.
The whole school’s extended day provision runs throughout the school week from 7.40am until 6pm. Visit our After School Club page for greater detail. The extended day team also run wonderful enrichment and holiday camps enabling the school to stay open to children for 49 weeks of the school year.
To find out more about the school you can attend a Prospective Parent Tour by visiting our Admissions Page where you see available dates to book onto. You will also find more information on how and when to apply for either a Nursery or school place.
School Profile Documents
OFSTED Inspection Report – Sept 2021
Letter from Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector regarding our OFSTED inspection – Dec 2021
Letter from Haringey’s Director for Children’s Services regarding our OFSTED inspection – Dec 2021
Governors’ Annual Report to Parents (2018)
Rt. Hon. Nick Gibb MP Progress Letter – Feb 2018
Rt. Hon. Nick Gibb MP Progress Letter – Feb 2017
Talking about race and racism at Rhodes Avenue Primary School
School Prospectus
School Prospectus – click here
Catchment Area Check
Catchment Area Check website link
Union information
The amount of time off taken by staff who are union officials – 0.
Financial information
Number of school employees (if any) which have a gross salary of over £100,000 or more in increments of £10,000 – 1 (as of 1st September 2023) – 0.
Financial benchmarking exercise
Rhodes Avenue Primary School’s financial benchmarking exercise link – click here