Hamilton Road, Garswood, Wigan, Lancashire WN4 0SF
10 reasons to choose Garswood Primary School
Top line
Garswood Primary School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 70. It is one of the best state primary schools in Wigan and one of the 6 best independent or state primaries within 3 miles.
School fundamentals
Garswood Primary School is a state primary school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 3 and 11 years. It is a community school. The school was also rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in its last (2017) inspection. Reception places are usually oversubscribed every year, on first preference.
Average class size
Garswood Primary School has one class per year, and an average class size of 30 pupils.
Exam results
Average Year 6 SATS results from 2016-19 and 2022 show that Garswood Primary School ranks in the top 38% of schools in the country by attainment. By the same measure, the school achieves above average scores for pupil progress.
The Garswood Primary School curriculum
School curriculum also includes PSHE, French. Core subjects are taught separately, but some foundation subjects, such as geography and history, are taught as half-termly topics with cross-curricular links to other subjects. The school offers each child a handful of extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers, Forest School for all year groups and residential trips for Years 3, 4 and 6.
Specialist teaching
Most lessons are taught by the class teacher with some peripatetic and specialist teaching.
Sport at Garswood Primary School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Garswood Primary School
Art and music are taught as discrete subjects to all pupils. DT, drama, dance integrated into other subjects. Choir. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Out of school hours care from 7.30am (school staff) to 5.55pm (external contractor).
Find another school near Garswood Primary School
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Billinge St Aidan’s Primary School (1.8 miles); Nicol Mere School (2 miles); St Mary’s Birchley Catholic Primary School (2.5 miles).
Tower College (8.1 miles); Bolton School Girls’ Division (13.2 miles); Bolton School Boys’ Division (13.3 miles).
St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield (2.1 miles); Winstanley College (3 miles); Hawkley Hall High School (3.3 miles).