Newcroft Primary Academy

Rated "Outstanding" by Ofsted
and our parents!

Flying High!

A creative and exciting curriculum!

Creative

A stimulating curriculum

New Beginnings

Excellence

We all strive to be the best we can be!

Sport

Active body, active mind

Aiming High

Respect

Relationships are outstanding

Focus

We understand outstanding learning behaviours

Learning

Dedicated to doing our best

Risk

...brings reward at Newcroft

Curiosity

We always strive to learn something new

Space

...to learn!

Fun

We take our children (of all ages) on lots of residential visits

Exciting

High Aspirations

...for positive futures

Music

We learn to play. We play to learn!

Trips to exciting places!

Our curriculum is enriched by exciting opportunities outside of the classroom

Family

Resilience

British Values

Teamwork

Mr Brookes

Mr Brookes is the Executive Head teacher. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the school and shares his time at other schools too.

Mrs Aukland

Mrs Aukland will be Acting Head of School during the 2019-20 academic year. She is responsible for the day to day running of our school.

Welcome to Newcroft!

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Newcroft Primary Academy

Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted

Newcroft is an Outstanding Primary School in Shepshed, near Loughborough, in the north of Leicestershire.

The school is housed in a semi open plan building and an annex, The Hall Croft building for our older pupils. We provide outstanding teaching and learning for 3 - 11 year olds, including a Pre-School and year groups from Reception to Year 6. The buildings are set in five acres of ground with various play areas, a forest, an outdoor classroom, sports field, attractive gardens and a wildlife area.

The school provides wrap-around care for families through offering a range of extended services—Breakfast Club, Afterschool Club and Pre-School sessions. In addition, Newcroft is operating as a Forest School to make best use of our extensive grounds to provide an excellent outdoor learning environment.

The History of Newcroft Primary Academy

Our school began life in 1875 as Sheepshed British School in the school room of the Charnwood Road Baptist Chapel on Charley Way. It was founded as a Public Elementary School (mixed infants).

Subsequently, the school moved to new premises on the site which is now the Co-op and was renamed ‘Hallcroft’ in 1884. It remained there until the school was damaged by fire in 1977. During the construction of the new school, the children were housed in mobile classrooms on the same site as St Botolph’s School.

On October 26th, 1982, the new school was opened on its present site and was re-named ‘Newcroft Primary School’. Since this time, in 2018, since numbers had grown so much that we could no longer accommodate all of the children in the present buildings, we have built an annex of four classrooms and a large sports hall on the school site. We call the new building 'Hall Croft' in homage to the original school.

In September 2016, the school chose to convert to an Academy, forming the Symphony Learning Trust, Multi-Academy Trust along with 5 other schools. At this time, we changed the logo (to a Sheep’s Head in recognition of the traditions of the Town) and we changed the name of the School to Newcroft Primary Academy.

Newcroft Primary Academy is a member of Symphony Learning Trust

Symphony Learning Trust
Registered office
Glen Hills Primary School
Featherby Drive
Glen Parva
Leicester
LE2 9NY

Accounting Officer & CEO - Tim Sutcliffe

Chair of Trustees - William Gilmour bgilmour@symphonylearningtrust.co.uk

Symphony Learning Trust is an exempt charity and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England Company Number: 07941899

Latest news

Science Workshops

Miss Reeves, our Science Leader, arranged some super Science workshops in school...

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Our new Upper KS2 Playground and Gym Equipment

We have officially opened our brand new Upper Key Stage 2 playground and gym equipment area. The chidlren love their new space and healthy choices equipment! Th...

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Roast Dinner Day success at Newcroft!

We have had a fantastic few days celebratiing 'Roast Dinner Day' as part of our Briish Values Curriculum. We had over 160 parents come and eat a roast dinner...

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Newcroft achieves GOLD in the school games mark award!

We had a special visitor from the School Games Team at Charnwood in our Wednesday whole school assembly. Sage presented us with the GOLD School Games Mark Award...

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