M&S Penrith

We now have a thriving after school club and breakfast club.. This will complete the wrap around care that we offer all of our community families. Open to all, not just our school it will give parents, carers and guardians a safe fun and healthy start to the day. Children from as young as 4 and up to 10 years will be able to access this early start breakfast giving the families an opportunity to improve their standards of living and gain employment which at the moment could be some distance from our rural isolated area. It will mean that after a healthy unrushed breakfast our children will be able to concentrate better in school. Learning about food and socialising with other children and adults at breakfast time gives an immense amount of skills, socialising with others to improve their health as they grow up and into adult life. We now provide our Kitchen, our classrooms and our fundraising events with products to improve the quality of care we already give to the children and families of this rurally isolated agricultural community. The involvement ofMarks and Spencer’s Penrith makes our whole school including the families is immense. By providing us with products from their store on a weekly basis means that we can reduce our kitchen budget and provide each class with healthy snacks such as fruit and now also helps our reception and nursery classes with toast in the morning break and gives the children a lot more energy and helps with their concentration during lessons.

We are a friendly Primary School with around 100 children! We accept volunteers with a variety of skills! Working in school with the children (subject to DBS checks) on their basic skills (reading, maths, cookery, sports, arts, music, languages). Helping maintain our school environment: gardening, painting, odd jobs!

At Brunswick Infant School and Nursery, the child is at the centre of everything we do and the decisions we make. Our team is very special and we all love the school, the community and what we do. Inclusion is central to our values and no one is left behind. We have 140 children on roll (Dec 2024). We work closely with our families to establish and build strong relationships and would welcome joining neighbourly for the benefit of our wonderful children, their families and our local community. We would ensure that any surplus was shared for the benefit of all children including our wrap around care facilities.