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St. Gregory CEVC Primary School and Nursery is a nurturing, inclusive community with high expectations and ambitions for all of our pupils and staff. We celebrate our strengths and differences and, through a lively, engaging curriculum supported by strong Christian values, aim to develop confident, independent and resourceful learners who are fully prepared for life in an ever-changing and dynamic world.
We aim to give every child as many ways as possible to succeed and develop their self-esteem, and we do this not only through our curriculum but also through opportunities in sport, music, drama and a range of roles and responsibilities in the school. For example, we currently hold the School Games Gold Award for providing the opportunity for so many children to take part in competitive sport, and last year every child in Year 6 took part in a competition against other schools. We have thriving Junior and Senior choirs which are open to any pupil without audition and who perform at a range of local churches and festivals across the year, and we also hold Midwinter Concerts, talent shows and school plays. The children also get a say in how the school is run and play an active role in helping us improve through School Council or by being Librarians, Play Leaders, Digital Leaders, Class Ambassadors or members of the Eco Committee.
We also welcome as much communication with parents and carers as possible. On the Contact Us section of this website you can find school email addresses for every teacher in the school, and there is also a feedback form if you would like to get in touch with the school office. Your views, ideas and feedback are really important to us as we strive to make St Gregory’s the best that we can be, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Daniel Woodrow – Headteacher.
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Our Local Churches are:-
St. Gregory’s Church
St. Gregory’s is an Anglican Church (Church of England) serving most of the town of Sudbury.
The priest in charge of St. Gregory’s Church is The Rev’d Andrew Doarks will be licenced as Rector, Sudbury St Gregory with St Peter and Chilton and Priest in Charge, Sudbury All Saints with Ballingdon and Brundon on Friday 29th April at 7.30pm at St. Gregory’s Church, with a celebration afterwards at All Saints’ Church Hall. Bishop Martin will be officiating. Andrew started his working life in the world of IT and telecommunication systems, before being called to ministry. He met Kate early in his curacy in Bristol and they married in 2013. They have two children, Jasmine and Benjamin, and he has two older children – Grace and Evelyn- who are now in their early twenties. Jasmine is about to be eight and enjoys music and dancing; she has Down’s Syndrome. Ben is just turning six and loves Lego, construction and designing anything from cardboard! They are also joined by Dotty, a ten week old cockapoo. Andrew leaves behind two churches in Bristol; both central in theological terms but one with a more formal, liberal catholic style and the other more evangelical in nature. Andrew hopes to move in to the Rectory around the middle of April in order to get his children into school for the start of the summer term.
The Church itself is quite beautiful and has a decidedly interesting history. The Church is used for various school services during the year. You can find out more about St. Gregory’s Church by clicking here.
All Saints Church
The Rev’d Andrew Doarks will be licenced as Rector, Sudbury St. Gregory with St Peter and Chilton and Priest in Charge, Sudbury All Saints with Ballingdon and Brundon on Friday 29th April at 7.30pm at St. Gregory’s Church, with a celebration afterwards at All Saints’ Church Hall. Bishop Martin will be officiating. Andrew started his working life in the world of IT and telecommunication systems, before being called to ministry. He met Kate early in his curacy in Bristol and they married in 2013. They have two children, Jasmine and Benjamin, and he has two older children – Grace and Evelyn- who are now in their early twenties. Jasmine is about to be eight and enjoys music and dancing; she has Down’s Syndrome. Ben is just turning six and loves Lego, construction and designing anything from cardboard! They are also joined by Dotty, a ten week old cockapoo. Andrew leaves behind two churches in Bristol; both central in theological terms but one with a more formal, liberal catholic style and the other more evangelical in nature. Andrew hopes to move in to the Rectory around the middle of April in order to get his children into school for the start of the summer term.
All Saints Church was originally a Norman flint and rubble church, built for the new parish created in the south-western corner of the town at the time of the growing wool trade to serve the thriving centre of commerce and industry which Sudbury had become. The ford crossing the River Stour was quickly replaced by a bridge and a small chapel and dorter, long since demolished, was established on Ballingdon Hill as a respite for travellers. In 1150 the church and the chapel with their lands were bought by Adam the Monk for the Abbey at St. Albans, in whose gift it remained until the Dissolution, when Thomas Eden, Clerk of the Star Chamber, became patron of the living in 1551. The church was rebuilt in the early 1300’s in the decorated style (1280 – 1380) and again in the 15th century, principally in the perpendicular style (1375 – 1550) leaving only the chancel from the previous structure. At this time Sudbury was as important a town as Colchester and Norwich and extremely prosperous having three fine churches within its bounds – rare for so small a town.
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