Grove Road Primary School

Infobox UK school
name = Grove Road Primary School


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established = 1973
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religion = Non-denominational
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head_label = Headteacher
head = Mr John Grubb
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chair_label = Chair of Governors
chair = Mr John Manning
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street = Grove Road
city = Tring
county = Hertfordshire
country = UK
postcode = HP23 5PD
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LEA = Hertfordshire
ofsted = 117341
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enrollment = 408
gender = Mixed
lower_age = 3
upper_age = 11
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website = http://www.groveroad.herts.sch.uk/
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Grove Road Primary School is a Primary School located in Tring, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and is one of the four state junior schools in Tring, the others being, Bishop Wood CE Junior School, Dundale Primary and Nursery School, and Goldfield Infants and Nursery School. The current headteacher is Mr John Grubb. Currently there are 408 pupils at Grove Road. [cite web | title=Directgov School Profile| publisher=Direct.gov| url=http://schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk/9192436/school-profile/ | accessdate=2008-01-11]

History

Grove Road (or Grove Road JMI as it was then) opened for the summer term of 1973 it had 32 pupils, 2 teachers, a headteacher (Mr Hollingsworth) and a secretary. In 1976 a separate infant school was built and Miss Moira Hegarty was appointed head. When she retired in 1991, Hertfordshire Education Authority decided to amalgamate the two schools. The process took two and a half years and in January 1993, the junior and infant schools closed and Grove Road Primary School opened. Alterations to the buildings and the completion of "the link", a small corridor built out of plastic linking the two sections of the school were finished five minutes before the Director of Education arrived for the official opening ceremony on 10th February 1993. [cite web | title=Grove Road Primary School History | publisher=Grove Road Primary School | url=http://www.groveroad.herts.sch.uk/about_our_school/history.html | accessdate=2008-01-11]

Academic standards

In May 2006 Grove Road was visited by 3 OFSTED inspectors, they reported Grove Road as being a Grade 2 School. [cite web | title=Grove Road Primary School Ofsted | publisher=Ofsted | url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/menuitem.7c7b38b14d870c7bb1890a01637046a0/?urn=117341&providerCategoryID=4096| accessdate=2008-01-11] The Grove Road 2007 Key Stage 2 SATs results were well above those achieved by schools nationally. The progress made by students from Year 3 to Year 6 were also significantly greater than the national average. [cite web | title=Grove Road Primary School Stats Results | publisher=Grove Road Primary School | url=http://www.groveroad.herts.sch.uk/about_our_school/SATS/Grove%20KS2%20Results%202007.pdf| accessdate=2008-01-11]

Awards

Grove Road has over the years been given many different awards. Two of the most recent and most notable are the grant of healthy schools status and the Activemark 2007 for Rewarding Commitment. [cite web | title=Grove Road Primary School Rewards| publisher=Grove Road Primary School | url=http://www.groveroad.herts.sch.uk/about_our_school/our_school.html| accessdate=2008-01-13]

References

External links

* [http://www.groveroad.herts.sch.uk/index.html Official site]
* [http://schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk/9192436/school-profile/ Direct.gov Schools finder profile for Grove Road Primary School]

ee also

* Tring School
* The Arts Educational School