WELCOME TO THE QUEENS’ FEDERATION: QUEEN EMMA

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you for visiting our website. We do hope it will give you an insight into school life, our ethos, aims, and curriculum as well as outlining our daily routines and procedures. If you are considering a school for your child we do hope that, having read about us, you will make an appointment to see the schools, meet our staff and see our children at work and play.

Queen Emma is the newest school in Cambridge city. It opened in September 2011 and will expand as it takes in two classes of 60 reception aged children year on year. It was built to meet the demand for places in the city and serves the catchment area of Queen Edith, Morley and Ridgefield Schools. Parents living in these three catchment areas can apply to either the nearest of these three schools or to Queen Emma.

Queen Emma is in a hard federation with Queen Edith, which is 5 minutes walk from Queen Emma.  It is led by one headteacher and one governing body with representation from both schools. We believe the following range of advantages make The Queens’ Federation a great benefit for both schools.

• Highly experienced governors and senior staff work closely together to lead both schools, bringing knowledge and understanding of teaching and learning, the successful management of a large organisation and a passion for working with families living in our community.
• Expertise can be shared across both sites to enable the schools to develop a creative and stimulating curriculum based on our extensive curriculum knowledge.
• The budget goes further because of the economy of scale so we can share staff such as our school business manager and community administrator and can use the savings to help provide even better resources for children at the school.
• Extra curricular opportunities and activities can be shared by children at both schools.
• As a Federation, we have been delighted to establish a range of partnership with the Faculty of Education, local secondary schools, our well-being partners and faith partners who have all agreed to help to contribute to the development of our vibrant school community.

I look forward to meeting you in the near future and hope that, if your child is to join us, they will have a long and very happy association with the school. We are committed to working in partnership with our parents and our desire is that you feel fully involved in your child’s education and the life of the school.

Yours sincerely,

Caroline Peet

Headteacher