Sir John Moore Church of England School

Latest School Newsletter  

School Prospectus

The prospectus for 2007/08 is available in pdf format if you click here.  You must have Acrobat Reader installed

Traffic Plan

The amount of traffic outside the school was creating concerns about children's safety. Since much of this traffic is created by parents dropping off or picking up by car it was decided to investigate the reason for these patterns of travel to school and develop safer alternatives. The travel plan developed by parents, children, staff and governors and supported by the LEA includes a wide range of suggestions which are already changing travel patterns. The entire report can be downloaded by clicking here. Note you will require Acrobat Reader to successfully download and read the file.

  Survey Results

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Includes a link to Ofsted reports & DfES performance tables

Finding Old School Friends

The web site Friends United already has a number of ex-pupils from Sir John Moore School listed.  You have to register to find out if there's anyone from your time - you never know who you might be able to get in contact with again.

Richard Dunmore's history of Sir John Moore School is available in paperback or hardback.  Click here for details.

Appleby's primary school occupies a famous building, built three hundred years' ago and based on an original design by Sir Christopher Wren.

Sir John commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to prepare the initial drawings.  After Wren's first design, the work was taken on by local architect Sir William Wilson.  It opened as a Free School for boys in 1697.

View from the School Gates

During Victorian times it was a boys' grammar school.  The building was closed between 1933 and 1957, when it reopened as the village primary school.

The school now has around 100 pupils and four teachers. 

The building is Grade I listed, categorised as being of special architectural and historical interest

For more about the history of Sir John Moore School, visit Appleby's History Web Site

The school and the other rooms and buildings that make up The Foundation underwent a major £2 million refurbishment which was completed in 2004. The original architects drawings and the business plan for using the site and raising the funds have now been archived.  Full details on the Sir John Moore Foundation web site www.sirjohnmoore.org.uk