Welcome to Glasshouses Community Primary School. We are housed in a beautiful Victorian school house, overlooking an area of outstanding natural beauty, not far from Harrogate.
Glasshouses is a small school that has big ambitions for all its pupils. We are passionate and determined to provide pupils with the knowledge and understanding they need to be happy, confident and successful.
As an accredited Gold Rights Respecting school, our children are supported to know their rights as a child, and understand what is acceptable and unacceptable treatment. Our children are encouraged to proactively express their opinions and value those of others –that is what makes Glasshouses unique.
Our core values of CHAMPS (Choices, Honesty, Achievement, Perseverance, Safety) are at the heart of our school and underpin a culture that enables our children to know they are of immense worth.
As part of The Upper Nidderdale Primary Federation, we benefit from being part of an outward looking organisation and have opportunities to learn collaboratively and access specialist teaching beyond an individual school’s scope. Pupils come together frequently with peers from their own year group to access specialist teaching in subjects such as PE, music and PSHE.
We pride ourselves on our knowledge of our children. We work hard to know every child, to know their strengths, interests and next steps, so that learning is always challenging and exciting.
The staff and Governors are unwavering in their commitment to children’s learning within our federation. The excellent curriculum encourages children to develop their knowledge and learn more through well sequenced programmes of learning – see our curriculum pages!
Extended hours can be provided through our Breakfast and After School Clubs. Breakfast Club is run on site from 7.45am and After School Club runs on site until 5.00pm.
Our teachers and curriculum leaders, across the federation, meet at least once a week to drive, support and challenge each other to be the best they can be – to make a difference in the lives of the children. We are proud of our school and we hope you can see why.
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We’re very proud to be a Beacon School for Barnardo’s Positive Identities service.
Our staff have received gender and sexual identities training from Barnardo’s staff and our pupils have participated in workshops about equality and diversity.