Chestnuts Primary School is a nurturing, happy and welcoming school situated in West Bletchley. We have high expectations and believe learning should be fun and rewarding. Our aim is to create opportunities to enrich our children with key skills, yet also leave them with happy and inspiring primary school memories. We are proud of all our pupils and their resilient attitudes, enthusiasm for learning and sense of humour. Staff at our school care for every child in every way – socially, emotionally and academically. They encourage, listen, praise and build relationships with all children; making every child feel worthy, valued and with improved confidence.

Our Ofsted in February 2019 graded us as a good school. Our senior leadership team were praised for their knowledge, support and determination for every pupil in the school to succeed. Leaders and teachers were commended for their lessons as well as encouraging all children to learn, including disadvantaged children or those with SEND. They stated that pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development was a strength and that ‘pupils relish the responsibilities they are given to contribute to school life and work together’.

We offer a Breakfast Club to encourage a healthy lifestyle and essential social development.  In addition, we are also proud of our sports provision - run by our sports leader - offering various extra-curricular sports activities. As well as these, we offer a range of lunchtime and after school clubs (free of charge) including a homework club.

When it comes to education, we offer all children a broad, balanced and fun curriculum that inspires and engages them; ensuring they continuously enjoy learning. Having two school minibuses is also an exciting and essential part of daily life at Chestnuts – this enables us to take part in lots of engaging trips linked to each year group’s curriculum.  It is a fundamental part of our belief that children will not learn unless they feel safe and happy, therefore, we place as much emphasis on developing children’s emotional and social well-being as we do on their academic achievement. Our children’s, parents’ and staff’s well-being are a priority. We are proud of our work supporting families and are fortunate to have a full-time family support worker. At Chestnuts, we have high expectations of all children and would like them to leave school as confident, polite and independent learners who are prepared with the appropriate skills, values and learning to be successful in their future.

At Chestnuts, we believe it is a partnership to achieve the best for all children and this is key to successful learning. We have a parent-teacher association, led by a group of enthusiastic and willing parents, who plan whole school events, support within the school and fundraise enabling our children to be provided with extra resources and equipment. Furthermore, we have a school council where representatives from each class are elected and attend regular meetings to plan important events and have a say in the running of their school. Alongside this, we also have sports leaders, peer mentors, maths leaders and junior librarian roles which allow children to develop their natural leadership skills.

The Chestnuts Way is embedded into everything we do. Four simple rules that are essential to our beliefs and ethos: Choose your attitude, Challenge yourself, Have Fun and Make Someone’s Day. The children and Chestnuts team live by these values each and every day. In essence, I am incredibly proud of our children, staff and parents and all that we continue to achieve together.

Becky Skillings

Head Teacher 

For more information on Chestnuts School please visit ; https://www.chestnutsprimaryschool.co.uk/.

We are also part of IFtL , please click this link for more information; https://www.iftl.co.uk/

Benefits of Joining IFtL

Joining the IFtL family has a large number of benefits, most notably our commitment to supporting our staff through CPD and professional development. We offer high-quality CPD to help staff and school leaders grow and develop in their careers.

We are committed to providing a wide range of opportunities to all, in a supportive, collaborative and nurturing environment.

Regardless of the role or level, our staff have the opportunity to work with colleagues across the trust to collaborate, network and grow.

As our Trust develops, we are dedicated to upholding our supportive, caring approach to our staff. Our family of schools work closely to ensure we work with the same goals, values and ethos.

Our staff are committed to supporting and working for the future generation of our Communities. In addition, we offer a wide range of benefits to our staff which include:

• Employee Benefits portal - This offers discounts and cash rewards in gyms, shops, cinema, options for health cash plans.
• Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured - Free counselling and advice for employees and their families (T & C's apply)
• Tax-Free Cycle Scheme
• Eye Tests and glasses vouchers (subject to terms and conditions)
• We follow (as a minimum) Teachers Terms and Conditions
• Graded Pay Scales (Support Staff) – Based on performance management
• CPD, Coaching and Mentoring
• Annual leave (Support Staff Only) – Minimum 27 days plus 8 days Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance Scheme (Support Staff Only) - Death benefit of 3x annual salary if in LGPS scheme for support staff
• Pension (Support staff) - As a member of the LGPS you contribute a percentage of your pensionable pay each month and IFtL will contribute a minimum of 20% of your monthly salary.

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Our Futures Together…

IFtL has a clear strategy ahead – Future Focused on Strong Schools and Leadership of Equitable Futures.  See full details in our Strategic Plan 2022-25 below.

We’d love you to be part of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

Safeguarding Statement

Inspiring Futures through Learning (IFtL) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including with past employers and the Criminal Records Bureau.