Our school has established links with our local community.

Thorpe Marshes

We work with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust at Thorpe Marshes to develop children's understanding and experience of our local river and the Norfolk Broads. Through regular visits to the Marshes (a short walk from school) children learn about wildlife, conservation, the history of the Broads and how to protect our ecosystem into the future.

Football

We have worked with the Thorpe St Andrew FC grassroots football club (formerly Hillside Rovers) for many years. The Thorpe St Andrew FC under 11s use the school field every weekend for training, practice and matches with children and young people from the local area.

Parish Church of Thorpe St Andrew

We visit the Parish Church of Thorpe St. Andrew for educational visits and a nativity service each year.

Community funding for school

In 2021, we were successful in securing £5000 sponsorship from the Aviva community fund to repair and restore our school wildlife pond area, in an exciting Wildlife Study base project. Work began in February 2021 to clear the pond and get started on re-lining and improving the area for wildlife, and we now have a thriving pond alive with plants and wildlife. The area around the pond was finished with new planting and seating in July 2022.

The pictures below show the pond as it was in 2020, then how it now is in 2023 after the project. The totem pole was carved by a parent, using the trunk of tree that had to be felled from the school field.