Paxton Primary School
Paxton Primary School is a primary school in London for ages 3 to 11.
Practise what Paxton Primary School is teaching this term
Daily maths in the order Paxton 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
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 386
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Address
- Woodland Road, London, SE19 1PA
- Phone
- 02086 702935
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
What Ofsted found
Full inspection, June 2024.
- Overall effectiveness: Good
- The quality of education: Good
- Behaviour and attitudes: Good
- Personal development: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
- Early years provision: Good
- Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
- Inspectors found the school is calm and pupils are well behaved, with higher expectations for conduct and behaviour since the previous inspection.
- The report says some early reading support is not as effective as it should be, because sounds are not always modelled precisely.
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.
How it teaches
- The curriculum uses an integrated approach centred around a topic with key driver subjects.
- Pupils are read to from the early years and staff develop children's language effectively.
Source: Paxton Primary School website; Paxton Primary School website. Checked 10 November 2026.
Admissions
- Nursery applicants must have been born between 1st September 2022 and 31st August 2023 for September 2026 entry.
- Reception applicants must have been born between 1st September 2021 and 31st August 2022 to start in September 2026.
Source: Paxton Primary School website. Checked 10 November 2026.
What each year group is learning
From Paxton Primary School's curriculum maps.
Year 2Autumn 1
- Maths
- Money: counting and making amounts with coins and notes. Multiplication and division through equal groups and arrays. Fractions: halves, quarters and thirds. Telling the time to the hour, quarter past and quarter to. Statistics with tally charts and pictograms
- English
- Poetry writing including acrostic poems
- Science
- Differences between living and dead things
- Computing
- Making music on a computer
- Art
- Drawing with charcoal and pencil
- Design and technology
- Wheels and axles in simple mechanisms. Food and nutrition: making a product using vegetables
- PSHE
- Bullying and treating others fairly
Year 3Autumn 1
- Maths
- Adding and subtracting numbers up to 3 digits, crossing 10 and 100. Multiplication and division using the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. Multiplying and dividing two digits by one digit with exchange. Converting, adding, subtracting money and giving change. Making and interpreting pictographs, bar charts and tables. Measuring and calculating perimeter. Fractions: tenths, equivalent fractions, ordering, adding and subtracting. Measuring and comparing mass and capacity
- Computing
- Sequencing events and actions in programs, designing and coding a maze
- Art
- Drawing and painting techniques such as tonking and sgraffito
- Design and technology
- How bridge shape affects strength and stability
- PSHE
- Anti-bullying and positive friendships, staying safe on the internet
Year 4Autumn 1
- Maths
- Adding and subtracting four digit numbers. Length and perimeter of rectilinear shapes. Decimals: tenths and hundredths
- Art
- Refining drawing skills focusing on lines and detail
- Design and technology
- Switches in electrical circuits. Sewing a button onto fabric and types of fastenings. Making healthy food from low-cost ingredients
Year 6
- Maths
- Factors, prime numbers and squared and cubed numbers. Multiplying and dividing decimals. Converting fractions to percentages and finding the percentage of an amount. Finding a rule and solving two-step equations. Area and perimeter of triangles and parallelograms and volume of cuboids. Calculating angles in triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons
- Geography
- Life in London for Windrush pioneers
- Art
- Drawing portraits inspired by Frida Kahlo using scale and proportion
- Design and technology
- Making street foods from different cultures and improving their nutritional value
Read on 10 November 2026 from the school's CURRICULUM OVERVIEWS page. The maps: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 6.
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School details: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education, URN 100577. Checked 9 November 2026.
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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.