About Exning Primary School
Exning Primary School provides an outstanding education within the context and understanding of shared values. We believe all children should be taught kindness, co-operation, resilience, honesty, respect, concentration and perseverance, creating an emotionally aware school family, within a safe and secure environment.
We believe the most effective way to prepare children for learning is to teach a skills and knowledge based, creative curriculum giving children the opportunity to become motivated, independent learners that can steer their own learning. We give children opportunities to use their imagination, collaborate and persevere to achieve their personal bests that we celebrate within the school.
Weaving through our curriculum are our three drivers;
- Enterprise – The ability to take risks; show initiative and undertake new ventures and think creatively.
- Emotional Intelligence – Understanding ourselves and others.
- Music and the Arts – Expressing ourselves through different media.
History of the school
William White built Exning School in the mid 1870s. He was a well-known local architect who designed attractive Victorian buildings. The school appears to have served the local village children from 4 years of age through to 14, and was built to educate a maximum of 447 pupils in two buildings. From early photographs, we can see that there were about 200 children on roll in 1910.
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Our awards
Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School Award – Awarded July 2025
In July 2022, we began our journey to achieve the IQM Inclusive School Award and were awarded Centre of Excellence Status at the end of our initial assessment visit. Over the following 3 years, we continued to enhance our inclusive practice, undergoing two further annual assessment visits to monitor our inclusivity. In July 2025, we were visited for an assessment to see whether we were able to demonstrate that we were a Flagship School. At the end of the visit, we were thrilled to be awarded Flagship School Status, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to inclusivity and supporting other schools to enhance their own inclusive practice. During the annual visits, our assessor spoke to children, parents, teachers, TAs and agencies who work alongside the school, and conducted learning walks and work scrutinies.