Many of the children at Morecambe Bay Community Primary do not arrive at the school with the best of starts. In their last report of 2016, Ofsted acknowledged that many of the pupils have complex social and emotional needs and that the school has more than double the national average of pupils supported by Pupil Premium funding.
Perhaps because of this, rather than in spite of it, the school has made creativity a priority: “We need to provide a language-rich environment,” explained headteacher Siobhan Collingwood. “Many of our children come into the school without having had this. We need to engage them and help them see the relevance in what they do.”
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