Welcome to Abacus Primary School
We are a community focused Primary School located in Wickford (Essex), accommodating 420 pupils, aged 4-11 years. We have been rated as a 'Good' school by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted).
We hope you enjoy looking at our website, and sharing in our daily learning journeys.
Our Mission Statement & Aims
Aspire Believe Achieve Create United Success
To be welcoming, friendly and caring, so that pupils feel secure, safe, happy and purposefully employed.
To provide a stimulating and varied curriculum.
To achieve high standards and expectations.
To provide access to an ICT rich environment.
To ensure children develop confidence, independence, self motivation,
concentration and high self esteem thus achieving their potential.
To inspire all who contribute to the life of the school to be successful.
Parents to be treated as partners in education, to be courteously received, listened to, fully informed and asked to use a similar code of conduct as that employed by the school.
To involve the community to participate in the life of the school.
To value one another in an ever changing world.
Working With Our Community
We have established strong ties with one of our local care homes, Silvanna Court. For Christmas 2020, we collected donations of biscuits, cakes and chocolates for the care home residents. These cards and gifts brought some much needed Christmas joy to all the residents as you can see from the cards we received below.
The residents have also joined us on one of our school assembly zoom calls where the children, staff and residents all enjoyed seeing each other and singing some songs together.
This year we are planning to start a pen pal project, with each class writing letters to the residents and waiting for their replies....we hope one day to be able to all meet face to face!
As a school we like to give back to the community in any way we can. Each year we collect food donations to give to the local food bank. We hope this goes some way to helping local families in need.
Food Bank Donations
15/11/21
Pupil Council visited Silvanna Court to read to our Penpals
We love Max and Maureen visiting our school each week, the children enjoy reading to Max and he enjoys the wide range of stories!
Books for Ukraine October 2023
Thank you to everybody who donated food and supplies to our food bank this year. We are as always overwhelmed with your generosity and we are sure the families in Wickford that will benefit from this would like to thank you too.
Christmas Card Recycling Scheme
This year we took part in a scheme to recycle Christmas cards as part of the TLM Environmental Christmas Card Recycling Scheme. We receycled 5kg of cards which will all help to look after our environment! Well done to all of the families who took part!