About Our School

Tidemill Primary School is a highly successful, innovative and happy school in the heart of Deptford. We have over 30 languages spoken in the school and our children come from a rich variety of backgrounds. They are well behaved, eager to learn and are supported by a team of hard working, talented and dedicated staff.
Our pupils not only achieve excellent test results; among many other things they have been England football champions, performed Shakespeare with the National Theatre, sung opera at Blackheath Halls, sung gospel at the Royal Albert Hall, exhibited their art in West End galleries and been Lewisham tag-rugby champions.
Our vision for Tidemill is clear; we believe that our children must have the best possible education in order to improve their life chances. Our focus, therefore, is on a determined and relentless effort to raise standards.

Ofsted Report

We were delighted to receive a glowing report from Ofsted when they visited the school in June 2008:-

"Tidemill is an outstanding school. It provides a very high quality of education and level of care for its pupils. Pupils achieve very well in the school. Pupils feel part of and proud of their school, know that they are very well looked after and, as a result, they are very keen to learn and to do well. The leadership of the school is outstanding. The headteacher and staff work well as a team and share the common aim of providing the best for the pupils. Teaching and learning are outstanding because the overall high quality of teaching enables pupils to achieve so well.."
(Ofsted, June 2008)

Tidemill: 16th nationally for value-added

Our 2008 results placed us top in Lewisham and 16th in the country for value-added - the measure of the progress children have made since they entered the school. We have been ranked in the top 5% most improving schools for the last 4 years now and our results show that with the proper motivation and high expectations Tidemill pupils can outperform the best.

For further details, click here to view the BBC web listing for Tidemill school.

Aims of the School

The aims of our school are to:-

		Fulfil our responsibility to ensure the safety of all our pupils. This may involve engaging outside agencies to realise this goal.
		Have high expectations of every child and value children as individuals
		Provide a diverse, stimulating and relevant curriculum that promotes learning
		Provide a safe and supportive environment which promotes pride, mutual respect and confidence
		Encourage independent intellectual, social and emotional growth
		Celebrate ethnic, cultural and religious diversity and challenge prejudice and bullying at all levels
		Communicate effectively with the whole school and build strong and effective links with our parents and carers as well as the local and wider community
		Communicate effectively with the whole school and build links with the local community
		Be responsive to the changing needs of the school
		Celebrate school and individual successes
		Make learning fun!

School Profile

The Annual Governors Report to Parents has been replaced by the online ‘School Profile’. Click here to view

Teaching School

For the last 3 years Tidemill has worked with London Challenge to support schools in challenging circumstances. This has now expanded to work with the City Challenge and the school has recently been awarded National Support School and National Teaching School status. For more information on our work as a teaching and learning centre, please click here.

Parent Feedback

Every year we ask our parents to give us feedback on how they feel the school is performing and whether they feel their children are making progress. This year 96% of our parents responded and the results were overwhelming - 98% said their child enjoyed school, 99% felt the teaching was good, 99% said staff expected a lot of their child and helped them to achieve their goals, 99% felt their child was making good progress and 98% felt the school was well-led and managed. But we don't rest on our laurels at Tidemill - we want to achieve 100% next year so we will be working hard over the coming year to achieve this!
Click here to see full details of the results of our survey.

Thank you for visiting our school website. We hope you enjoy finding out about our school and joining us in celebrating our pupils' many achievements.

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Artists impression of new school

The children celebrate
World Book Day

Kelloggs Frosties Cup Winners 2005 at the Millenium Stadium.