We love reading at St James.  Our brilliant World Book Day costumes gave us a chance to talk about a wide range of authors and books we love.  It was fantastic when we did buddy reading across the school and we got to share our favourite books together.  World Book Day is important - and books are special EVERY DAY at our school!

Our nursery is a constant place of creativity and engagement.  We have been so pleased to see the way our new cohort are settling, learning and growing at St James.  

We visit the Church across the year to develop our Christian values and all our families are invited too.  

This is an important time for us to consider the importance of faith to Christians and connect to our community.

Conscious inclusion is a core part of our school development plan and is embeded in everything we do from our curriculum and enrichment programme to our behaviour and restorative justice approach.  Please see our Inclusion pages for more information.

Our school is part of Haringey's pledge to raise achievement for all.  

'Every child and young person in Haringey matters.  Every child and young person deserves the best life chances, especially when they face additional barriers due to ethnicity and disadvantage.   It is everyone's responsibility to make this a reality and create the equality of opportunity we want to see.'

We wore red to school this term to show our support for Show Racism The Red Card who are one of the UK's leading anti-racism educational charity. The majority of their work involves the delivery of educational workshops to young people and adults in schools, workplaces and at events held in football stadiums. Across the UK, they produce educational resources to challenge misconceptions, stereotypes and negative attitudes in society.

At St James, we pride ourselves in having a curriculum that reflects our school community and celebrates diversity. We want all our pupils to thrive through informed curiosity about the world and think critically about how to change the world for the better. 

We are delighted to have been awarded the prestigious Platinum Green Tree School Award by the Woodland Trust.  This validates our hard work on considering sustainibility at St James.  We love being next to the woods as it helps us to consider our connection with nature every day.

We are so proud of our Science at St James.

The learning and investigation doesn't just happen at school! We are proud of the way science takes place at home as well.  

We are fortunate to be next door to beautiful Highgate Woods and our Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 classes take part in Forest School. 

We are delighted to have been ranked within the top 3% of primary schools in the country according to the Time Educational Supplement (December 2024).  You can find out more information here

We have been awarded the UNICEF Rights Respecting Gold award in recognition of the way we work across our curriculum to value the rights of every child.

We were so thrilled when we got to host our beautiful globe as part of the World Reimagined Project.  Ours was by artist Bryony-Benge Abbott who was inspired by the legacy of Kenyan activist, Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement and was the first African women to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

We achieved the PSQM Outreach award for the hard work we do in science both within the school and with other schools too.