OUR values and school organisation

Safeguarding  Statement

At Tower Hamlets  primary schools, there is nothing more important to us than the physical and emotional health and well-being of our pupils. As such, we have created and worked relentlessly to maintain a climate in which staff, pupils, parents and governors feel able to voice concerns comfortably; knowing that effective action will be taken. We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our pupils. We engender the principle that safeguarding is 'everyone's responsibility'. All staff and volunteers should raise any concerns they have about poor or unsafe practice and potential failures in the school safeguarding regime.

Our School Values

Our Facilities

Globe Primary School was built in 1874 and has a long established tradition of providing education for the Bethnal Green community.

Our school is a community primary school in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and serves a varied and diverse community from many cultural backgrounds. Boys and girls attend our school from the age of three, when they start Nursery, to the age of eleven after which they transfer to a secondary school.

Our school has an additionally resourced provision for children with special educational needs. There are thirty places for children who need additional support in their speech, language and communication development; children who have an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) with a diagnosis of Development Language Delay (DLD). These places are allocated by the Local Authority. More details of what we call our ‘Language Provision’ is found on Our Specialist Speech and Language Provision page.

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The school environment consists of a large three story refurbished Victorian building within a walled playground. We have a continuing programme of improvement to keep the premises attractive, safe, comfortable and stimulating for everyone.

We have the added unique feature of a roof playground which is used by the children every day. We have all sorts up there, bikes, scooters, climbing frames and even a garden!

We also have an extremely well equipped Computer Room which houses 33 touch screen computers in which classes are taught weekly computing lessons. In addition to this we have class sets of laptops, learn pads and iPads which are brought into classrooms for use. We try to stay on top of the latest computing developments. The children are loving using our iPads at the moment.

Our library is something that we are very proud of.  It is cosy and extremely well-resourced and it just makes you want to read! We have a qualified School Librarian, who knows all about the latest great books to read. All year groups use and borrow from the library each week.    

You will find our Music Room right at the top of our school and this is used every day for class music lessons or instrument tuition. Pop in there and you’ll find steel pans, violins, trumpets, trombone, flutes and clarinets being played. 

We are lucky to have a Community House called Hartley House (named after our previous School Premises Manager who lived in that house for 34 years) on the other side of our playground. This is a great resource for us as this is where we have our Sensory Room, can cook, as well as run workshops for parents. 

Hall space, we have a lot of hall space! We are very fortunate to have three large halls where many activities take place, for instance, assemblies, performances, physical education lessons and breakfast clubs. The middle hall is used as our dining room over the lunchtime period.

These extensive facilities allow us to be flexible and creative in our teaching methods and approaches as appropriate to the needs of individuals, small groups and whole classes. 

Organisation of Classes

We are a ‘one and a half form entry’ school which means that from Reception onwards, each year group has 45 children. 

However, that does not mean there are 45 in a class! Class sizes from Y1 onwards are 30 with Reception being 22 or 23.

We have fourteen classes at Globe and they are arranged as follows. 

Early Years Foundation Stage

One Nursery class – providing a mix of 15 hour places and working parent 30 hour places, up to a maximum of 39.

Two Reception classes, one class of 22 and one of 23.

Key Stage 1

Year One, Year One/Two, Year Two

Lower Key Stage 2

Year Three, Year Three/Four, Year Four

Upper Key Stage 2

Year Five, Year Five/Six, Year Six

Language Provision

(This is what we call our additionally resourced provision for children with speech, language and communication need, children who have a diagnosis of developmental language disorder.).

Our Language Provision class is called after Dorothy Bishop, a British psychologist who  specialises in developmental disorders specifically, developmental language impairments. There are two bases to this class, Group 1 and Group 2 (Early Years and Key Stage 1)

The older Key Stage 2  children within our additionally resourced provision (language provision) then transfer to the larger Key Stage 2 mainstream classes.  

All our other classes are named after individuals who have made a stand or fought for equality. 

Classes 2024-2025  & Class Names

Our classes are named after people who have spoken up and campaigned for equality and the recognition of individual rights. 

A Little Bit of Globe History

Globe School first opened its doors to children in October 1874. It was built to take 1,105 children. About 20 years later they built an extension. This now accommodates the school kitchen and class rooms above and below. This was so that the school could take another 400 children. Making a grand total of 1,505 children.

When the building first opened it was three separate schools. The ground floor being an infant school, first floor was a girls’ school and the top floor a boys’ school. Each with their own Headteacher. This is very different today where we have usually have around 367 children on roll.

In the early days the classrooms had terracing in them so that they could fit as many children as possible into each room. They would have probably only had a slate and pencil. Nothing like the equipment and facilities that we have today.

During World War 2, the majority of children in London were evacuated to the countryside. Globe was then used as a refuge centre for families who had been bombed out of their homes. The school suffered slight damage from bomb blasts but nothing serious.

The Globe and Bangabandhu Soft Federation

We are in a soft federation with another local Bethnal Green school, Bangabandhu Primary School. Please click the link below to visit the Soft Federation page which will give you more details about what this means.

Click here to view The Globe and Bangabandhu Soft Federation page.