Admissions
If you are interested in sending your child to Anson Primary School, please contact us to arrange a visit. We always enjoy meeting new children and their parents and will show you around our school.
E-mail: anson.office@tssmat.staffs.sch.uk
Places for the school are allocated by Staffordshire local authority. Please follow the link to the local authority in order to continue the application process.
Admission Policy
We welcome new children and their families to Anson. We will endeavour to accommodate new admissions and help children settle into school. Our planned admission number (PAN) for each year group is 15. Unfortunately, there may be times when we have more children wanting places here than we have available. In those circumstances, we then follow our criteria for over-subscription, which can be found in our Admissions Policy for the relevant year.
Admissions Policy
Admission Policy for Under 5's
Subject to the Nursery Education and grant maintained School’s Act 1997
Great Haywood Under 5s operate independently from the school premises. Special visits for new parents and their children are arranged directly with Great Haywood Under 5 staff, who can be found at the front of the main school building. They aim to make the transition to school life as smooth as possible.
Parents are welcome to our visit at all times. If a longer time is needed then it is best to make an appointment so that you can have the undivided attention of the staff.
You may contact Great Haywood Under 5's directly by calling Mrs S. Chell on 07976 097824.
Welcome to our Classes!
Welcome to Class 1!
Our Outstanding Early Years Foundation Stage Reception Class is called Class 1.
Class 1's Early Years team -
Teachers - Mrs Philp and Mrs Bater
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Elwell and Miss Jarrett-Graves
Uniform: Please ensure that ALL uniform including PE kits are clearly labelled with your child’s name. Your child will also need to have a bag with a spare change of clothes that can stay in school - just in case!
PE: Class 1 has P.E every Tuesday, please ensure your child comes to school in their named PE kits each Tuesday.
Snack & Milk: All children are provided with morning toast and milk and an afternoon fruit snack free of charge.
Water bottles: Each child should bring a water bottle into school that is clearly named, bottles will be returned home at the end of each day for washing and refilling.
Wellies: Please ensure that your child has a pair of wellies with them in school, which are clearly labelled. These will be kept in school throughout the year, we try to go outside in all weathers in our rain suits!
Readers: Reading books will be changed on a Monday, where your child will receive 2 fully decodable reading books.
Library Books: Library books are chosen and taken home every Monday. Please return each Monday so that your child can visit the library to choose a new recommended read library book.
Diaries: Diaries will be checked every day for messages. They form an important line of communication between home and school, so please let us know any information on the right hand side of the page. It is helpful to write in the diary who will be picking your child up that day so we know who to look for and if it is someone new we can ask for your child’s password.
Welcome to Class 2!
Class 2 is made up of Year 1 and 2 pupils and is taught by Mrs Cooper and Mrs Grant.
We hope you had a fantastic Christmas holiday and are ready for a wonderful new learning journey in 2026.
We have lots of new and exciting learning planned this year and can't wait to get started!
Reading
Reading in Class 2 is extremely important.
Please try and listen to your child read every night and note down in their diary which page they read up to. If your child has read 5 times in week, they will be entered into our '5x reader' raffle where they can win a book to take home and keep!
Reading books will be changed weekly if they are brought in with the diary signed by an adult. Weekly, children will bring home a Monster Phonics book linked to their work in guided reading sessions and a reading scheme book matched to their reading level. Children can also choose a library book to take home if you/they wish.
The children are listened to reading in school throughout the week in Guided Reading activities and English tasks.
Spellings
Our spelling tests take place every Friday. Spelling scores will be recorded in your child's Monster Phonics Spelling book, along with any incorrect words, which will be highlighted in orange.
Spelling lists for the following week will be allocated on Friday after the test.
Therefore, please ensure your child brings their Monster Phonics Spelling Book in to school every Friday.
Please encourage your child to practise at home, both verbally and in written form.
If you would like to support your child further, you will find a list of words that the children are expected to know by the end of KS1 in the back of their homework diaries.
Water Bottles.
Please ensure your child has a labelled water bottle in school each day. Water bottles will be sent home daily to be washed and should be returned on the following day.
Labelled Clothing.
Please ensure all school clothing (jumpers, trousers, PE kits and shoes) is clearly labelled with both forename and surname.
P.E.
PE will take place on a Monday and Thursday each week so please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days.
Welcome to Class 3!
Class 3 is made up of Year 3 and Year 4 and are led by Mrs Walmsley, Mrs Hayward and Mrs Forrester!
Through vibrant and interesting topics, they improve their basic skills as pupils become more independent and confident learners building their learning power through resilience, reflectiveness, resourcefulness and relationships.
Homework - Homework is uploaded to Education City on a Friday and is expected in the following Friday.
Spelling - Spellings are given out on a Tuesday and pupils will be tested on the following Tuesday.
Water Bottle - Please ensure your child has a labelled water bottle in school with them every day.
Labelled Clothing - Please ensure your child's school clothing (jumpers, trousers, PE kits and shoes) are clearly labelled with their forename and surname.
PE - Please ensure your child's has an Anson PE top in their house colour and PE shorts or trousers. PE will take place every Tuesday and Friday so please come ready in your PE kit. Swimming will take place in the Summer Term for Year 4.
Welcome to Class 4
Class 4 is made up of Years 5 and 6 and is taught by Mr Davies, Mrs Broome, Mrs Castell and Mrs Forrester
Welcome to a new school year! We hope you all had a wonderful Summer break. This term, we have lots of exciting learning planned. You can see more details of this and other learning we have planned by viewing our Class 4 knowledge Mats and Long Term Plans below. You can also see our "Reading Spine" for this academic year which shows the texts we will be studying.
Wild Walkers - If you would like your child to be a ‘Wild Walker’, please write a note in their diary confirming your permission and giving the days that they will be walking home alone on.
Homework - Homework is given out on a Friday and is expected in the following Friday
As part of their homework, children should be reading as much as possible (try to aim for every night) and please sign their reading diaries. Pupils have weekly spellings on Spelling Shed to learn and will be tested on these each Monday. Alongside this, Spelling Shed now have a new addtion called Mastery Zone. This enables your child to practise spellings at their own level. Pupils have access to TT Rockstars to practise times tables. This year, there will be an additional, optional piece of homework handed out each week for maths or English on a Friday (information will go out on Class dojo). Pupils are already expected to do so much addtional work that there is no expectation for this to be completed, however the option is there.
Spelling - Spellings are given out on a Tuesday each week and pupils will be tested on the following Monday.
Water Bottle - Please ensure your child has a labelled water bottle in school. These will be sent home every Friday to be washed and should be returned on Monday.
Labelled Clothing - Please ensure your child's school clothing (jumpers, trousers, PE kits and shoes) are clearly labelled with their forename and surname.
PE - PE will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays so please make sure your child has their P.E kit in school on these days.