Danson Primary School
Danson Primary School is a primary school in Welling for ages 4 to 11.
Practise what Danson Primary School is teaching this term
Daily maths in the order Danson Primary School teaches it, where its maps give one. English keeps to the usual order for their year. Start with a free five-minute class.
At a glance
- Type
- Community school, run by the council
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Pupils
- 592
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Address
- Danson Lane, Welling, DA16 2BH
- Phone
- 02083 031858
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
What Ofsted found
Short inspection, May 2025.
- Overall effectiveness: Evidence gathered during this ungraded (section 8) inspection suggests that the school's work may have improved significantly across all areas since the previous inspection.
- Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
- Inspectors found pupils behave excellently, with routines well established from the Reception Year onwards.
- Inspectors found that teachers are experts at teaching early reading, with phonics taught consistently and effectively.
Our summary of Ofsted's report. Read the full reports on Ofsted's website. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
What each year group is learning
From Danson Primary School's curriculum maps.
ReceptionSummer and Spring
- Maths
- Counting objects, actions and sounds. Comparing numbers. Comparing length, weight and capacity. Counting objects, actions and sounds. Counting beyond ten. Subitising and linking numerals with cardinal number values. Composition of numbers to 10. Comparing length, weight and capacity
- Writing
- Writing some or all of their name and beginning to form letters
- Science
- Effects of changing seasons on the natural world. Exploring the natural world outdoors. Listening to sounds in the environment on listening walks
- Geography
- Drawing information from a simple map
- Computing
- Developing storylines in pretend play
- Art
- Exploring artistic effects to express ideas and feelings. Exploring colour mixing and what happens when colours are mixed. Creating classroom art for displays and working together as a team. Using paint and other media to create pictures about families and people special to us
- Music
- Singing in a group or alone, matching pitch and melody. Creating their own songs or improvising
- RE
- Discussing different festivals and celebrating different languages spoken in the classes
- Other
- Engaging in story times and non-fiction books. Watching and talking about dance and performance art
Year 1Summer and Spring
- Maths
- Addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers. Money: naming coins and notes and finding change. Multiplication and division, including doubling, halving and arrays. Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Identifying and finding halves and quarters of shapes and quantities. Comparing and measuring length and mass using cm and kg
- Reading
- Using phonics to decode new words. Making inferences and predictions from texts. Reading books matched to phonics and applying phonics to decode words
- Writing
- Spelling the first 100 high frequency words
- Science
- Observing how day length varies
- History
- How technology has changed the way we write, talk and are entertained
- Geography
- Locating the equator on a globe or atlas. Features and clothing of hot and cold places
- PE
- Gymnastics: wide, narrow and curled shapes and transitions between movements
- PSHE
- Healthy meals with different food groups. Safe use of medicines and washing hands correctly. Looking after home, school and a special person or thing
Year 2Spring and Autumn
- Reading
- Fiction and non-fiction texts and using information books
- Writing
- Writing poetry
- Science
- Importance of exercise and hygiene for humans
- Geography
- Describing the key features of a place
- Computing
- Writing and testing simple programs
- PE
- Gymnastics: linking movements together. Dodging and attacking and defending in games. Creating and performing gymnastics pathway sequences
- PSHE
- Saying how to help myself if I am being left out
Read on 10 November 2026 from the school's EYFS page and the school's Year 1 page and the school's Year 2 page. The maps: EYFS Curriculum Overview Summer, EYFS Curriculum Map Spring Term, Curriculum Map Autumn 2, Curriculum Map Autumn 1, Year 1 Curriculum Overview Summer, Year 1 Curriculum Overview Spring, Year 2 Curriculum Overview Spring, Year 2 Curriculum Overview Autumn.
Grammar schools within 15 miles
- Bexley Grammar SchoolWelling, under a mile. Bexley Selection Test
- Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar SchoolSidcup, 1 mile. Bexley Selection Test
- Townley Grammar SchoolGirls, Bexleyheath, 2 miles. Bexley Selection Test
- Beths Grammar SchoolBoys, Bexley, 2 miles. Bexley Selection Test
- Wilmington Grammar School for GirlsGirls, Dartford, 4 miles. Kent Test
- Wilmington Grammar School for BoysBoys, Dartford, 4 miles. Kent Test
- Dartford Grammar School for GirlsGirls, Dartford, 4 miles. Kent Test
- Dartford Grammar SchoolBoys, Dartford, 4 miles. Kent Test
- St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar SchoolBoys, Orpington, 6 miles. St Olave's Selective Entrance Test
- Newstead Wood SchoolGirls, Orpington, 6 miles. Newstead Wood Selection Test
- Mayfield Grammar School, GravesendGirls, Gravesend, 11 miles. Kent Test
- Gravesend Grammar SchoolBoys, Gravesend, 12 miles. Kent Test
School details: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education, URN 101403. Checked 9 November 2026.
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Help your child with what Danson Primary School is teaching this term
Daily maths in the order the school teaches it, English in the usual order for their year, with a weekly view of what they have mastered.