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Background
Rushmore Primary School is situated on the edge of the Lea Valley
Park, an area renowned for its natural beauty along with Hackney
Marshes and the River Lea.
It is within walking distance of a wide selection of amenities
- a swimming pool, sports centre and Museums.
The school runs along Chatsworth Road, a small shopping area that
boasts Hackneys oldest street market.
The school was amalgamated in September 1995 and the Infant and
Junior Departments are housed in different buildings. The
school has approximately 475 on roll in 16 classes.
The Infant Department is a Grade II listed Edwardian school building
dating from 1908.
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It is a single-storey
building built around a central hall, with resource rooms and workrooms.
The toilets, reception area and resource areas were replaced and
improved in 2000.
The Junior Department is housed in a uniquely designed building.
There is a computer room and a sound proofed activity room opening
off a central airy hall, with an environmental area on one side.
The school has excellent PE and music facilities.
The toilets were replaced in 2001 along with new small teaching
areas and new quiet rooms in-between each classroom. There is a
school kitchen, preparing meals on site for both Junior and Infant
pupils, outside is a canopied area, hard play areas and landscaped
grounds. The Junior building incorporates a nursery unit with a
separate play space and entrance.
The playground has extensive new apparatus, trees, planters, seats
andactivities recently built through fund raising activities, grants
and from the school budget.
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The school
has a strong focus on the performing arts and sport and keenly gives
children access and opportunities in this area. We are also in “Excellence
in Cities” and have extra money for developing our gifted
and talented cohort. We are also part of a mini-education action
zone which gives great benefit to our school community.
We were awarded a National Achievement award by the Government
in 2001 for sustained achievement in the last four years. Our SATS
results are slightly above the national average. We are in the top
5 % of schools for added value to childrens’ results .

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