Welcome to the Fordingbridge Federation

‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ Mary Oliver

I am delighted to welcome you to the Fordingbridge Federation.

This is a special place that truly offers the best of both worlds.

The Infant School specialises in giving children the strongest start to school. Here, children learn to belong to our community, they build the strongest of relationships and they establish strong foundations for their future learning.

Meanwhile, the Junior School builds on children’s successes and prepares them for Secondary School and lifelong learning. Nurtured by relationships, children encounter rigour and a rhythm of learning that prepares them to relish the challenges and opportunities awaiting them in Year 7 and beyond.

Each step is distinctive. Yet the journey is seamless.

Our Federation operates as one team and our children are known. While each step indeed represents a giant leap for the children, the relationships staff build with them and the knowledge they pass on smooths the way for success, growth and progress.

While the Federation as a whole is larger than other Primary Schools in the area, in no way does it lack heart.

This is personal: each child’s success is our mission. This is about every single one. No exceptions.

Our relative size gives us strength and depth. It gives us the capacity to provide a rich, balanced and inclusive education, supported by excellent facilities, talented staff and the resources to create meaningful opportunities for our children.

As I begin my time as Executive Headteacher of the Federation, I am grateful for the strong foundations that I inherit. With the firm footing that those foundations provide, I see great opportunity. There is so much to celebrate, so much to expand on and so much to be ambitious about.

I don’t know what your children will choose to do with their one wild and precious life. But I do know that the Fordingbridge Federation is a place that will prepare them to flourish as they embark on that adventure.

Here’s to our next chapter.

Let it be written for each child: every single one.

Dan Genn

Executive Headteacher