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A visit from Father Christmas

Father Christmas came to visit our Primary School children at Five Acre Wood this week. We are very grateful to The White Horse Charity (registered charity number 1113849), based at The White Horse Pub in Otham, Maidstone, for donating Christmas presents for each of our 140 primary age students.  Thanks to their incredible generosity, Father …

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A visit from Hilton Maidstone

The DM Thomas Foundation for Young People, a European grant-making trust based in London, have awarded us £7,495 to purchase a mobile sensory unit. Following his visit to us yesterday, Leonardo Gagliano, manager of Hilton Maidstone said: “What a fantastic school. I really enjoyed my visit and having a chance to meet the dedicated staff …

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Donation to fund new sensory music area

We were delighted to welcome Nick Moody, representing the St. James’s Place Foundation, to Five Acre Wood today.  He presented us with a cheque for £9,788. This donation will fund a new outdoor sensory music area for us that will comprise eight giant musical instruments and three sensory spheres, together with surfacing that will ensure …

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We’re OUTSTANDING!

Five Acre Wood School has been judged as ‘Outstanding’ in its recent Ofsted inspection. The inspection report, which has now been published, praises the school’s ‘outstanding academic and personal outcomes for pupils’ and a Principal and Governors who ‘believe that nothing but the best will do’. Teaching was judged to be ’typically outstanding across the …

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