About Us

Idle Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School was founded in 1847 and housed in a building adjacent to Holy Trinity Parish Church. Our strong positive Christian ethos is exemplified by our close links with the Church even though the school transferred to its present site in Boothroyd Drive in 1975, when the old building was demolished.
We are a single form entry school, and our children are positive, confident and successful due to our Celebratory ethos.
The school is housed in a modern building with well equipped ICT facilities and each class is equipped with its own Interactive whiteboard.

June 2009 saw our most recent and extremely successful OFSTED Inspection. Please view our 'News and Events' section for a fully detailed report.

The curriculum we provide is exciting and involves many visits and visitors to school. Staff and children alike enjoy our school because we make learning active and fun with many first hand experiences.

The school has very high standards for Music and Sports and the children enjoy taking part in musical activities and Sports matches with other schools.

Our extensive grounds and P.E. resources enable us to actively encourage our children to be healthy and keen on a whole range of sports and after-school activities. Recently we were awarded the Sports England Activemark accreditation which acknowledged the high level of our physical activity provision.

We are distinguished by excellence and high academic standards, combined with a real emphasis on Sports, Creative Arts and Music, and are extremely proud of our achievements.