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A warm welcome to Pears Family School website.

Thank you for visiting our website. I am delighted to welcome you to our school. The Pears Family School is proud to be a tolerant and caring learning community welcoming students from all cultures and faiths. Our vision is to provide vulnerable young people and their families with a therapeutic, nurturing, as well as academically … Continue reading Headteacher’s Welcome →
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The Pears Family School is a centre of high-quality and innovative alternative education provision for children, families and schools across London.

INTRODUCTION Combining the highest quality teaching methodologies with elements from the most up-to-date CAMHS practice, The Pears Family School eases behavioural and mental health-related blocks to learning, and provides learning opportunities that keep pace with the pupil’s ability to learn and achieve. Considerable evidence has been gathered to show that helping a child to change … Continue reading Our Vision and Ethos →
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Pears Family School is set to grow over the next 4 years to eventually teach 48 students. As we increase our numbers so our teaching team will grow.

Pears Family School Team Currently our committed permanent staff team consists of Matthew Hillman Headteacher; Faye Howard Deputy Headteacher and acting SENco; Andrew Thompson Phase 4 Teacher; James Bennett Behaviour for Learning Lead; Theresa Taylor Phase 3 Teacher; Rebecca Breedon Phase 2 Teacher; Maya Bell-Kholi Phase 1 Teacher; Iain Isacsson Teaching Assistant; Alec Fisher Teaching Assistant; Ima Rahman … Continue reading Staff →
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The Pears Family school is lucky to have a team of highly skilled and committed governors.

The Chair of the Governing Body is John Cape and he can be contacted at the following;
Pears Family School Centre of Excellence,
4-8 Rodney Street, Islington,
London, N1 9JH.
Tel: 020 3693 4911
Email: reception@thefamilyschoollondon.org

The full Governing Body meets four times a year. Attendance at the Governing Body to August 2019 is as follows:
Ross Bidmead (4/4), John Cape (2/2), Neil Dawson (3/4), Pierre Gosselin (3/4), Katherine Gledhill (2/2), Stephen Taylor (2/2), Peggy Ray (4/4), Anthony Scrafton (2/4), Matthew Hillman (4/4), Wayne Llewelyn (0/4) - Associate Member, James Bennett (2/2) - Staff Governor, Rebecca Cockcroft (1/2), Mark Martin (1/1), Andrew Thompson (1/1) - Staff Governor.

There are also the Premises and Human Resources Committee and Achievement and Welfare Committee, which also meets at certain points throughout the academic year.

Attendance at the Premises and Human Resources Committee:
Pierre Gosselin - Chair (4/4), Ros Bidmead (4/4), Neil Dawson (4/4) and Matthew Hillman (4/4).

Attendance at the Achievement and Welfare Committee:
Peggy Ray - Chair (2/2), Matthew Hillman (2/2), Brenda McHugh (2/2) and Mary Hepworth (2/2)

Governors, Trustees and Members  Current Governors, Trustees and Members Previous Governors, Trustees and Members  Governance Information Family school Articles  SCHEME OF DELEGATION OF THE TRUST Annual Reports Family School Accounts 2014 Family School Accounts 2015 Family School Accounts 2016 Family School Accounts 2017 Pears Family School Accounts 2018 Pears Family School Accounts 2019 Governors’ declaration … Continue reading Governance and Compliance →
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Welcome to Pears Family School website. We hope you find these pages useful. Very often parents and carers don’t know what to expect when they first attend a school like ours. So let us see if we can shed some light on what you can expect as a parent or carer of a child at PFS.

A PLACE FOR PARENTS AND CARERS Firstly, you will receive a warm welcome from us and we will take the time to get to know and understand you and your child. We want to hear from you what you think would be needed in order for us to establish a personalised learning and social curriculum … Continue reading Parents →
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The pupil premium is additional funding given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.

PFS – Pupil Premium Report 2018/19    
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Our policies:

Access to Pupil Records PFS – 2016 Accessibility Plan PFS – 2019 Admissions Policy PFS – 2019 Behaviour-Policy-PFS-2020 Charging and Remissions Policy PFS – 2016 Code of Conduct PFS – 2019 Complaints Policy PFS – 2020 Curriculum Policy PFS – 2016 GDPR Data Protection Policy PFS -2020 Disciplinary Policy PFS – 2019 Health and Safety … Continue reading Policies →
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Thank you for your interest in our school.

There are currently no vacancies
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The government gives extra funding to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport. This funding – provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport – is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools. Schools must spend the funding to improve the … Continue reading PE & Sport, Year 7 Catch-Up Premium and Careers Programme →
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PFS Term Dates Calendar 2020-21
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