ALDI PENRITH

North Lakes School in Penrith is a Community Primary School with 199 children on roll (July 2023) We are a happy, welcoming and very inclusive school where we teach pupils to be reflective and resilient learners. Childhood is a very special time so we aim to make school life an experience which is stimulating, meaningful, memorable and fun. The education of each child includes not only their academic achievement, but their social, moral, spiritual, creative, emotional and physical development. We would be delighted to join neighbourly for the benefit of our wonderful pupils, to provide them with additional resources for the school day, and for our wrap around care facilities. As school budgets deplete, it is essential for us to be part of the wider community, to work together to utilise any spare resources from local businesses. Thank you.

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!