Telferscot Primary School
Telferscot Primary School is a primary school in London for ages 3 to 11.
Daily practice for Telferscot Primary School pupils
Daily maths and English that follow the national curriculum for your child's year. Start with a free five-minute class.
At a glance
- Type
- Community school, run by the council
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 436
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Address
- Telferscot Road, London, SW12 0HW
- Phone
- 02086 737362
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
What Ofsted found
Full inspection, February 2025.
- The quality of education: Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding
- Personal development: Outstanding
- Leadership and management: Outstanding
- Early years provision: Outstanding
- Inspectors found that behaviour is consistently positive and that pupils know every adult in the school will listen and help if they have worries.
- Inspectors found that a consistent and effective approach to phonics helps pupils develop early reading skills and that teachers support pupils with SEND through additional activities and focused adult support.
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.
The school
- The school has its own forest school area and outdoor classroom and uses Tooting common for forest school activities.
Source: Telferscot Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
How it teaches
- Phonics is taught daily using the Bug Club synthetic phonic scheme.
- French is taught weekly by a specialist to Years 4 to 6.
- Children in Key Stage 2 take part in weekly Votes for Schools sessions where they discuss current issues and debate.
Source: Telferscot Primary School website; Telferscot Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
Music, sport and trips
- Over the year all children have a theatre experience and there are lots of visits to places of interest.
Source: Telferscot Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
Nursery
- The deadline for applications to Nursery is 31 st March for the following academic year starting in September.
Source: Telferscot Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
The school day and clubs
- Wraparound care runs from 7.30am to 6.00pm, Monday to Friday, during term time.
Source: Telferscot Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
What each year group is learning
From Telferscot Primary School's curriculum maps.
Year 1
- Maths
- Counting to and past 100, forwards and backwards from any number. Number bonds and matching subtraction facts up to 20. Finding and naming one half of an object, shape or amount. Telling the time in hours and half past the hour. Adding and subtracting money and giving change. Finding fractions including 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4. Telling the time with Roman numerals and 12-hour or 24-hour clocks. Using bar charts, pictograms and tables to interpret and present data. Counting in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1001. Rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1001. Recalling times tables facts up to 12 times 12. Identifying lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes. Reading and writing decimal numbers as fractions
- English
- Spelling words with each letter sound taught and naming the alphabet in order. Reading and blending sounds, including alternative sounds for letters. Using prefixes and suffixes to understand new words. Reading and understanding myths, legends and traditional stories from other cultures
- Writing
- Joining sentences together to make a story and checking they make sense. Writing lower-case letters in the correct direction and size. Adding -er, -est and -ly to the end of words. Using commas when writing a list. Using paragraphs to organise writing. Using inverted commas to show direct speech. Adding suffixes -ate, -ise and -ify to make verbs
- Phonics
- Sounds of all the letters and letter groups, reading new words by blending
Read on 10 November 2026 from the school's Curriculum page. The map: Click here to download English and Mathematics Learning Goals for each Year Group.
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School details: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education, URN 100586. Checked 9 November 2026.
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