It is my pleasure to welcome you to Plaistow Primary School and Children's Centre. We are a collaborative, dynamic and unique Local Authority school filled with laughter, friendship and high expectations for all. Our school curriculum drivers are: joy, creativity and aspiration . These values underpin the curriculum, inform our decision making, and guide the way we interact with one another. At our school we work hard, challenge and believe in ourselves in order to learn, progress and achieve. Our children experience joy on their own unique learning journey in order for them to become creative, aspirational lifelong learners. Reading and a love of books inspires what we do at Plaistow. We have filled our school and built our curriculum around books which are inclusive and diverse. They help our children explore a world they can love , challenge, change and protect. High quality texts are the basis for our thematic curriculum. Purposeful experiences enrich children's vocabulary and put learning in reading, writing and maths into context. As a result, pupils make rapid progress and achieve across all subject areas.