About Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School

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Welcome to Mansel Park

On behalf of the governors and our team, I am delighted to welcome you and your family to Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School. We are sure that your time with us will be a positive and successful one.

At Mansel Park we are committed to ensuring that each child is valued, cared for and given every opportunity to achieve their potential. We are keen to promote excellent standards of learning and behaviour through high quality teaching and a broad and exciting curriculum. We ensure that every pupil is challenged and developed in every aspect of their learning. Everyone who visits our school comments on the wonderful atmosphere. They say ‘there is a real sense of learning, behaviour is good and the children are polite and friendly’.

Mansel Park Primary is a rapidly improving school in Southampton and everyone associated with it is committed to ensuring the children enjoy the highest quality of educational opportunities. Parents are an important part of this work and we recognise that children learn best when their families are involved. We hope that you will take advantage of the opportunities to participate in the many different aspects of school life.

Our website is intended to give you some useful information about our school. If you would like to discuss anything else, please contact us using the details at the bottom of each page. We will be pleased to help you in any way we can and are always delighted to show visitors around our school.

If you would like to apply for a place then please contact the school and we will either advise whether year group spaces are available, or for Year R entrance explain the admission procedure. Alternatively, the admission arrangements can be found by clicking here.

Kind Regards,

Gerida Montague, MBE | Executive Headteacher, Learning Federation Partnership of Schools

Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools.

Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School is part of a wider family of six schools called The Learning Federation Partnership of Schools. Under the leadership of a hugely experienced team, we take the strengths of our school partnership to provide the most enriching and diverse curriculum and wellbeing focused school journey for all of our children. Our Executive Headteacher is a National Leader in Education as well as an inspector for Ofsted. She is well supported by a strong executive board and heads of school. Our teams of staff regularly support other schools.

Executive Board:

Gerida Montague, MBE and Ian Prince lead the Board as Co-Executive Headteachers.

Jo McNicholas - Chief Business, Finance and Compliance Officer.

Sarah Hendricks - Director of Vulnerable Children. Executive Headteacher for Sinclair Primary & Nursery, Holy Family Catholic Primary and Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary Schools.

Caroline Firman - Director of Curriculum & Management Systems. Executive Headteacher for Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School.

Paul Lodge - Co-Headteacher for Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School.

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Mansel Park Team:

Senior Leadership:

Executive Headteachers – Mrs Gerida Montague, MBE and Ian Prince

Headteacher – Mr Paul Lodge

Vice-Principal – Mr Rob Peters

Senior Leader - Rachael Pickersgill

Deputy Director of Vulnerable Children -  Mrs Katherine Olney

Director of Early Years - Mrs Jennifer Squires

SENDco:

Lead Partnership SENDco - Mrs Kate Knott

Assistant Partnership SENDco - Miss Rebecca Thomas

Assistant Partnership SENDco - Mrs Lauren Rendal

Admin:

Partnership Office and Finance Manager – Mrs Rachel Morey

Partnership Finance Assistant – Miss Kim Hamilton

Partnership Admin Assistant - Mr Dave Tomkins

Admin Assistants – Mrs Rebecca Woolford, Mrs Katie Roberts and Miss Daryl Saunders

Estates:

Site Manager – Mr John Powell

Site Assistant – Mr Kirk Wadmore

Teaching Team:

Nursery – Jennifer Squires and Samantha Deacon

Support staff - Abi Comer, Emma Wells, Angie Rossiter, Chrissy O'Dell, Maisy Spicer, Summer Bareham, Shannon Burton

Year R – Miss Grace Hale, Miss Jennifer Watson

Year 1 – Miss Charlotte Vickery, Miss Hannah Williamson

Year 2 – Miss Lauren Maxwell, Miss Lauren Rendall (Mrs Helen Hodder)

Year 3 – Miss Chloe Carter, Miss Georgia Day, Mr Barnaby Riste-Smith

Year 4 – Miss Alice Boldy, Miss Lydia Rowe

Year 5 – Miss Shannon Baker, Mr Dan Palkovaci

Year 6 – Miss Rachael Pickersgill / Mrs Florence Hart (Teaching & Learning leader), Miss Sabrina Plazas, Mrs Faye Wood (Year 3,4 & 5 Phase Leader)

Support Staff – Kelsea Gale, Laura Fry, Becky Gauntlett, Natasha Smyth, Julie Purchase, Natalie Gale, Debbie Whitmarsh, Stacie Taylor, Steph Luke, Emma Higgins, Mary Hurst, Tina Davies, Jack Ferguson, Sharon Le Carpentier

Key Stage 2 Results:

KS2 Results – 2023/2024

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