Grove Road Primary School
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Grove Road Primary School is a Primary School located in Tring
, Hertfordshire
, England
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.
arrived for the official opening ceremony on 10th February 1993.
inspectors, they reported Grove Road as being a Grade 2 School.
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.
Tring
Tring is a small market town and also a civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England. Situated north-west of London and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston Station, Tring is now largely a...
, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
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, England
England
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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.
History
Grove Road (or Grove Road JMI as it was then) opened for the summer term of 1973 it had 32 pupils, 2 teachers (Miss Smith and Miss Newton), a headteacher (Mr Gordon 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 EducationDirector of Education
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arrived for the official opening ceremony on 10th February 1993.
Academic standards
In May 2006 Grove Road was visited by 3 OFSTEDOfsted
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inspectors, they reported Grove Road as being a Grade 2 School.
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.
| Subject | % of Year 6 students attaining level 4 or higher | % of Year 6 students attaining level 5 |
|---|---|---|
| English | 97% | 51% |
| Mathematics | 95% | 61% |
| Science | 97% | 68% |
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.External links
See also
- Tring SchoolTring SchoolTring School is a state secondary school with approximately 1,500 pupils aged between 11 and 18. It is located on Mortimer Hill on the east side of the town of Tring, Hertfordshire, England. It is also a designated specialist Humanities College. Tring School includes a sixth form with approximately...
- Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, formerly the Arts Educational School