Bayford CE Primary School
Jesus said, ‘I am the Good Shepherd…
I know my sheep and my sheep know me.’
John 10.14
Welcome to our school!
Flexible wraparound care now available from 7:30 am to 5:15 pmOur latest Facebook Post
🧪SCIENCE DAY🧪
We had a fantastic Science Day at Bayford earlier this week, filled with curiosity, questions and lots of hands-on investigations! Our youngest learners in EYFS and Class 1 had great fun exploring bubbles, testing different bubble mixtures and experimenting with a variety of homemade bubble wands to see which created the biggest bubbles.
Class 2 had an incredibly inquisitive day, asking some brilliant scientific questions and working together to find the answers. They explored how lava and ice cream are made, learned about gravity and space travel, and even discovered how to create a solar oven. The children set up experiments including a race between different liquids and tested how many puffs it takes to blow up a balloon, as well as enjoying some exciting demonstrations, including watching colours dissolve from Skittles to create beautiful rainbow patterns and the classic Mentos and Diet Coke reaction!
Meanwhile, Class 3 became forensic scientists after a terrible crime took place in the classroom — someone had stolen Miss Lourenco’s chocolate eclairs! The children carefully analysed fingerprints, studied handwriting from a mysterious note, compared shoe prints and examined witness statements to solve the case – we always did have our suspicions about Miss S…
What a brilliant day of investigation, teamwork and scientific thinking from all of our young scientists! 👩🔬🧪
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Bayford is a happy school that welcomes everyone warmly.
Ofsted inspection report 2025
Dr Malcom Foster
Welcome to Bayford Church of England Primary School & Nursery
Welcome and thank you for your interest in our school! At Bayford we create a caring, family atmosphere under-pinned by our Christian values. We aim to develop each child’s talents and abilities, providing opportunities for every individual to be a happy, confident, resilient, and enthusiastic learner, ensuring they have the skills needed to achieve their full potential. We have a range of facilities, which include a field, ponds, and woodland area which allow us to provide fantastic opportunities for learning outside the classroom, enhancing the engaging curricular and extra-curricular activities that we provide for our children.
Pupils enjoy learning a broad range of subjects. Across the curriculum, most pupils achieve well.
Ofsted inspection report 2025
Our School vision
We are inspired to be a vibrant, joyful community in which we know and love one another, leading together and growing together by:
- Appreciating everyone and everything around us
- Making one another feel safe
- Sharing, so no one feels left out
- Living well together in love
- Moving forward together in hope
Staff build strong relationships with pupils. This helps pupils to feel safe and secure.
Ofsted inspection report 2025
Georgie
House Captain
Georgie was the Captain of Green (St Patrick’s) House for 2024-2025. Read more about her role in the School Forum.
Brenda Lambie
Chair of Governors
Brenda chairs our governing body. Find out more about her role and meet her colleagues on our governors’ page.
Jan Sims
Secretary/Administrator
Jan is the friendly face at the school reception and the person most likely to answer the phone when you call. Meet her and all our staff team by clicking here.
Information for parents
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Dedicated leaders, staff and governors embody the school’s motto, ‘Together we
SIAMS inspection report 2025
love, Together we know, Together we lead, Together we grow,’ creating a vibrant, nurturing environment where all
feel a deep sense of belonging.
We are a Church of England School
We belong to the Church of England and the vision and values which underpin everything we do are founded on Christian faith. But far from making us exclusive, that faith makes us an inclusive, community school. We believe that God loves each and every individual, regardless of their faith or their lifestyle and choices: so we are here to live out that love and play our part in enriching the lives of everyone who comes to our school, whether as a child or as an adult, a member of staff, parent, or volunteer. That is what we were founded to do almost two hundred years ago, and that remains central to our vision today.
Calendar
Governors’ Committee Meetings
March 18 @ 3:45 pm - 6:15 pmFull Governors’ Meeting
March 25 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmLast day of spring term
March 27Staff training day
April 13First day of summer term
April 14
Attendance
Here’s our most recent attendance figure as a percentage across the whole school for the year to date. We owe it to our children to keep this figure high! Our target is at least 95%.
97.2%
