Welcome to Staveley CE Primary School
On behalf of the children, staff and Governors, I would like to welcome you to Staveley CE Primary School.
We are very proud of our village school which stands in beautiful grounds surrounded by hills, fields and trees. We have strong links within the local community and we work closely with St James’ Church situated next door to school.
Our Core Christian Values of Friendship, Respect, Compassion, Thankfulness, Courage and Service are at the heart of everything we do and we are committed to developing a love of learning in all our children.
Our School Vision;
We love to learn. We learn to love, embraces loving one another as Jesus loved us. We strive to recognise our flocks' individual gifts and celebrate these gifts in a caring, loving and Christian environment. We aspire to create a community of hope filled, lifelong learners who are empowered to embrace challenge and can influence positive change in the world.
Our curriculum covers the requirements of the National Curriculum as well as offering our children a wide range of experiences including exciting trips and Residential visits, Outdoor and Adventurous Activity Days, Theme Weeks and the use of our extensive grounds.
Our most recent Ofsted inspection in November 2025 recognised this stating that; "The curriculum is broad, rich and engaging. The school brings the curriculum to life through purposeful experiences linked to pupils’ learning. Staff’s subject knowledge is strong and they present new information to pupils clearly." "The school is ambitious for pupils’ achievement. This extends beyond the curriculum and into all aspects of their development."
We hope the information included on this website gives you a flavour of the special place Staveley CE Primary School is.
If there is anything else you would like to know please do not hesitate to get in touch. If you are a prospective parent we would be happy to take you on a tour, please call the School Office to arrange this.
Miss Lisa Strange
Headteacher
Calendar
We’ve had the best morning welcoming John and his fantastic animals from the Creepy Crawly Roadshow into our classroom! We’ve also had some super playful lambs in our playground (and classroom sshh!) Thank you to the families who loaned us the lambs and your hard work organising this and thank you to all our preschool friends for joining us. It’s been fantastic 🐑🐍🕷️
It’s our preschool animal adventures morning this morning. We will be welcoming a lamb and the creepy crawly experience to our classroom this morning. Why not come and join us at 10am to see our lovely school and join the teddy bears on their picnic. The session runs 10am- 11:30 am.
Herdies got messy in our science lesson this afternoon! As part of our States of Matter topic, we investigated how some materials can be both solids AND liquids, by making Oobleck! We found when we applied pressure to the Oobleck it was a solid, however, when we released the pressure it changed into a liquid 🧑🔬
The rain didn’t stop us this afternoon at Golf Club! 🌧️Another fantastic session, this week joined by Adam and Kyle from @carusgreengolfclub @adamlynn_pga 🏌️⛳️ We aimed for different targets, including a moving hoop, which was a challenge but lots of fun! 👏
These little superstars completed the 5km Kendal Colour Dash Run on Sunday raising money for St John’s Hospice. Amazing job girls and well done for talking so confidently about it in assembly. ⭐️
Reception, Y1 and Y2 had a busy time in their outdoor learning lesson producing field sketches of signs of Spring. What a lovely range of pictures 🌷
Our first week back of the Summer term and there was a little bit of sunshine amongst the rain ☀️ ☔️ we had a visit from the library van this week so the children enjoyed choosing some new books for school. We also had a visit from Becca - a vet at Westmorland Vets - who talked to us about how to keep safe around cats and dogs. We had a team who went to Kendal Leisure centre for a swim gala - they did a super job. We also had our golf and gardening clubs start. Time outside and in the outdoor classroom and we even had the parachute out for some fun cooperative games. As well as all this the children have worked hard in Maths, English, Science, Music, History, RE to name a few. #villageschool #workinghard #funtimes
We’ve had such a busy week in Jacob class and we really must say a big thank you to Becca from Westmorland vets. Becca came to talk to Jacob and Swaledale classes about dog and cat body language and how to make sure we can keep ourselves safe around our pets. She read through two different stories highlighting how our pets might feel if we don’t give them enough space. Thank you so much for visiting us #westmorlandvets
We’ve had a busy afternoon at gardening club; how exciting to see our potatoes have started to grow! We’ve weeded our final veg bed, have planted sunflower seeds, the rose plants and some leek seeds. We can’t wait to see these growing in the summer.
