New Monument is a primary school, with a nursery, situated in the Maybury district of Woking, Surrey. The school caters for pupils in the age range 3 – 11. Everything you need to know about the school you should be able to find on this website. However, we would love you to come and visit us and find out about the school in person!

New Monument wins first prize for Best School Environmental Garden in Woking!

We should be very proud of Mrs Jackson and her Gardening Club. Over the past two years, they have transformed the area behind the nursery playground into a wonderful environmental garden. Woking Borough Council have recognised their efforts by awarding this year's first prize to the school, in Woking in Bloom's "Best School Environmental Garden" category. This annual competition focussed this year on environmental practices, particularly: reduce water use in the garden; cut down on use of pesticides and inorganic fertilisers; use alternatives to peat; compost kitchen and garden waste; and attract wildlife and create habitats. The school received a magnificient trophy, which we keep for a year and is on display in the school foyer, an engraved plate, a certificate and £100 cheque to spend at a garden centre. Here's a picture from the award ceremony and the certificate:

Activities for children in Maybury and Sheerwater

Click here to go to a new page listing lots of fun and sporting activities for children to do outside school in Maybury, Sheerwater and in Woking. There are prices and full contact details for each activity.

Save Money and Raise funds for the School by Shopping Online

Save money and help raise funds for extra educational equipment for New Monument School school by shopping online with your favourite retailers.

For every purchase made via schoolfunds.co.uk New Monument School receives points which they can exchange for educational equipment. All the popular online retailers are included in the scheme and there are lots of special offers such as free delivery. Give it a try!

Extend your child's learning at home!

The number of New Monument families with computers at home and broadband access to the Internet is going up all the time; we believe that most children now have high-speed access to the Internet at home. So, why not encourage your child to carry on learning at home or show you what they have been learning? To get them started, here are pages of links to free websites they use in their ICT lessons in school. The pages are split up into yeargroups and so your child should easily be able to find something they have used in school to show you. Click here to access the links.

Then let them play safely online

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" or so they used to say. Here are links to webpages containing activities and games that we think are safe for children to use and are ones we let the children here at school use once they have they finished their work. We particularly recommend friv.com and poissonrouge.com.

Year 6 SATs Revision

In January we will start various initiatives regarding Year 6 SATs. The first, an Early Morning Club, will start on 12th January when Year 6 childen will be able to use the ICT Suite for SATs revision or study. Parents of Year 6 Kestrel class children will be receiving a letter about this before the Christmas break.

The second initiative is the setting up of a 'wikispace' linking to lots of SATs revision resources. The address is https://newmonumentschool.wikispaces.com/ but you can click here to go straight to the New Monument wiki. Year 6 pupils are encouraged to use this wiki at school and at home and we will be adding lots more pages to it over the coming weeks.

Diary dates

Autumn Term 2009

October

November

EAL Orientation

New resources added for children and their families who have recently arrived in the UK and need to learn English

New Monument in the news

Click here to read all the good things that have been said recently about the school in the local newspapers.

Talking Stories

Listen to stories online to encourage reading and to help learn English.

Reading Stories

Read stories online by clicking here.

EAL at New Monument

We have a lot of 'EAL' children here at our School. EAL stands for 'English as an additional language' and means children who may have recently come to this country and do not speak English as their first language. We do lots of things here at the school to make sure these children are taught in the same way as the children who do speak English while providing them with extra support to make sure they learn quickly to speak English well. Click here on or the map of the world to find out more about what we do.

International Partnerships

New Monument School is strongly involved in a number of international projects with schools around the world. Under "eTwinning", which is part of the European Commission's eLearning programme, we manage an interactive website called "But What's It Like?" as well as participating in the "Eye Spy On Europe" magazine project. Click on the links to find out more about each project, click on the map to find out about the schools we're linked with or click this link to see what we do with each school.

Our children's work

We have created a new page where we will be showcasing the work done by the children in the school. The first examples are of Year 5 art which you can see on a website called "kids101 Art Gallery". Click here to get to the new page which will take you to the on-line art gallery.

Special events

Special visitors regularly come to the school; our children participate in cultural, sporting and educational events outside school; we celebrate many special occasions. Click here to see what we've done recently.

Class assemblies

Each term, every class in the school writes and presents an assembly on some aspect of school life or the curriculum to the whole school and their parents come and listen too! Click here to relive your child's class assembly.

School trips

We try to get our children out and about as much as possible, in order to widen their experiences of life and the environment. Click here to see where we've been recently.

School Details

New Monument School
(LEA Maintained)
Alpha Road
Maybury
Woking
GU22 8HA

Telephone: 01483 769302
Fax: 01483 715664

Interim Head Teacher: Mrs Tricia Cahillane