Welcome to our beautiful rural school, located within a 15 minute drive of Stafford Castle, which is recognised by Ofsted as being‘a tiny school with a big voice’.
We are extremely proud of our school, our pupils, our community and our environment. We embrace our small class sizes, which enable us to deliver a first-class, all round education. In addition, the mixed year groups benefit from a sensitive and supportive environment.
Church Eaton Primary School – Our Improvement Journey
I am immensely proud of the improvement journey Church Eaton Primary School has been on over the last few years. We have made tremendous progress, moving from a school that was judged as Requires Improvement to one that is now thriving, with strong Ofsted judgements, exceptional academic achievements and a vibrant, ambitious learning environment.
Our latest SATs results are particularly pleasing, with 100% of pupils achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics. This builds on our excellent 2025 results, when 83% of children achieved the expected standard across these subjects. These outstanding achievements are a testament to the dedication of our staff, the determination of our children and our shared commitment to providing the very best education.
However, our improvement journey has been about so much more than academic success. We are passionate about providing a rich, exciting and inspiring education, where every child is encouraged to discover their talents, embrace new challenges and flourish.
From music lessons and performing in concerts to representing the school at sporting events, our children develop confidence, teamwork and resilience. Our Eco lessons and Eco-Council help pupils understand sustainability and their responsibility towards the environment, while our Personal Passport, educational visits and residential experiences, including trips to Paris, broaden horizons, raise aspirations and create lifelong memories.
We are also immensely proud of our place at the heart of the village community. Our close relationships with families and the wider community are fundamental to what makes Church Eaton such a special school. There is a genuine sense of belonging, where every child is valued, every family matters and everyone plays a part in our success.
I was particularly delighted that Ofsted described us as ‘a tiny school with a big voice’. Those words capture the spirit of Church Eaton perfectly. We may be small in size, but we have high expectations, enormous ambition and an unwavering belief in what our children can achieve.
Everything we do is underpinned by three principles: Every Child Known, Every Child Flourishing, Every Child Learning. These are central to the education strategy of Staffordshire University Academies Trust and are brought to life in our school every day. We know our pupils as individuals, nurture their unique strengths and talents, and maintain the highest academic aspirations for every child.
Our improvement journey is something we are immensely proud of, but we are certainly not standing still. We remain determined to build on our achievements, continue raising standards and create even more exciting opportunities for our children.
Church Eaton Primary School may be a tiny school, but we have a big voice, a big heart and enormous ambitions for every child.
David Baker
Headteacher
Ofsted Inspection July 2026:
We are delighted to share the positive outcome of our recent Ofsted inspection, which took place on 7 July 2026. Inspectors recognised the warm, nurturing and purposeful environment at Church Eaton Primary School, highlighting that pupils are ‘happy, feel safe and are ready to learn’. They praised the strong relationships across our school community, our effective phonics teaching and the improvements made by leaders, which are enabling pupils to ‘learn more, do more’ and ‘remember more over time’. We are particularly proud that inspectors described our classrooms as ‘buzzing with purposeful learning’ and recognised our commitment to placing pupils at the heart of everything we do. This report is a wonderful reflection of our whole school community — our pupils, staff, volunteers, families and governors — and we are incredibly proud of our ‘tiny school with a BIG voice.’
Is your child starting Nursery or Reception in 2027?
🍁🍂 Come and join us for our Autumn themed stay and play at Church Eaton Primary School! 🍂🍁
🗓️Tuesday 13th October ⏰ Three time slots available throughout the day
🦊🎃 Bring your little ones aged 2-5 to explore our wonderful school, meet the staff and enjoy some Autumn fun!
⭐️If you have an older child interested in joining us, please get in touch. Every day is an open day at Church Eaton, and we’d love to arrange a school tour for you!
⭐️Following our Ofsted inspection on 7th July 2026, we are absolutely delighted to share the incredibly positive result and feedback our school has received!
⭐️Inspectors recognised that pupils are happy, safe and ready to learn, that our classrooms are buzzing with purposeful learning and that our school is a warm, friendly and nurturing place where everyone knows and care for one another!
⭐️We are especially proud that the improvement made across our school are enabling pupils to learn more, do more and remember more over time.
⭐️ A huge THANK YOU to our amazing staff, wonderful pupils, supportive families, volunteers and governors. This recognition belongs to our whole school community🥰
⭐️You can read our full report here: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/147425
Come and visit our school today to see for yourself what a wonderful school we are! 📞 01785 823 089 📧 office@churcheaton.staffs.sch.uk...
All the staff have loved welcoming the children back to school today, it has been a beautiful first day! It has been so lovely hearing about their summer adventures, catching up with familiar faces and seeing our classrooms filled with laughter and excitement once again!
And what better way to start the new school year than with a fresh new look for our school! 🏫 We are absolutely delighted with the building work that has taken place over the summer holidays. Church Eaton has had a wonderful refresh, and we couldn’t be happier with the results! Whats been done: ⭐️ A new room has been built ⭐️ Children’s toilets have been redone ⭐️ Space has been created by the children’s toilets near the entrance way ⭐️ All new flooring in the corridor ⭐️ Staff toilets redone
It’s been fantastic to see the children enjoying their new and improved surroundings as they begin another year of exciting learning and memory making.
A huge thank you to everyone who has worked behind the scenes over the summer to make this happen! We are incredibly proud of our school and cant wait to see all that this new school year brings! ❤️
⭐️Yesterday, we had the privilege of welcoming our local MP @leighinghammp to Church Eaton Primary School! It was great to feel heard and supported, and meant so much, especially with us being such a rural community!
⭐️Leigh met with our Church Eaton Champions, who asked her lots of great questions! We even found out what her favourite type of sausage is!
⭐️A huge thank you to Leigh and her team for taking the time to visit us and listen to all we had to say! We may be a small school, but we have a big voice and we loved the opportunity to share it!
🥇🥈🥉 SPORTS DAY 🥉🥈🥇 Today was a very successful sports day at Church Eaton!
⭐️ A huge thank you to all our parents and guardians for coming along and supporting the children! Well done to all of you who also joined in our family races! It was a very fun, community filled day!
⭐️ Despite the heat, the children had an amazing time, showed fantastic sportsmanship, and gave every race their best effort! They were very pleased with the ice lolly reward afterwards! We are so proud of them all!
⭐️ Also, a massive thank you to @faces_churcheatonptfa for the refreshments provided and the ice lollies! Thank you to ‘Lower Rule Farm’ for kindly donating the punnets of strawberries for us to enjoy! We really appreciate it all!...
Ever wondered what our writing scheme looks like at Church Eaton? ✍🏼📚 Miss Grech explains all about what is expected of our children in writing from Years 1-6!...
Today, our pupils (and staff!) were absolute rockstars! 🎸🤘🏼🎤
We had the please of having @rocksteadymusicschool come in to give us an assembly and show us how to play some of the instruments, and they sounded incredible! All the pupils had such a brilliant morning rocking out to music!
Children can now learn to play an instrument through weekly band lessons! You can choose if they shine on vocals, keyboard, drums, guitar or bass! Parents: a letter will be sent home and via dojo for more information!...
⭐️We are so excited to share we have been donated 12 brand new benches for our outside area! They have been supplied by Mick Leonard of Best Benches at Wheaton Aston! www.bestbenches.co.uk
⭐️ These benches have been donated to us from fund raising efforts of FranFest/ Church Eaton Big Camp Out. For those of you who are not aware, FranFest was created in memory of Fran, one of our brilliant pupils mum, who sadly passed away. Before passing she had the idea of organising an outdoor/camping event for the school, like a mini festival. After her passing some parents decided to pick up the idea and have it in her memory to raise funds for both charity and the school. In 2025 the name was changed to Church Eaton Big Camp Out to encourage more people within the school to come along. This will be the 4th year of the event taking place at Play@Lower Drayton.
As a school, we are so grateful for the donations we get through this amazing cause, and we cannot wait to attend this year! ❤️...
This week we are celebrating all our pupils! They have been challenged to record every kind act that they see or do and connect it to their class chains. Our goal is to put all the chains together and to get this chain to go around the whole hall! The children have made a great start!...
This week we are celebrating our children that entered @youngartistsuk ‘Food Friends’ competition. Everyone who took part had their artwork published in a book, which is now proudly displayed in our library! 📚
A huge congratulations to Emily, who not only had her artwork featured in the book, but also her design was chosen for the front cover! She also won a fantastic bag of art goodies!
Tis the season to sparkle! ✨Our pupils (and staff!) brought the festive cheer yesterday in their Christmas jumpers! The children brought in lots of donations for our raffle prizes in exchange for wearing their jumpers which is amazing! Thank you to all the parents for getting the children involved with this great day! All the children looked amazing! ❤️...
🎭 Our pantomime trip was full of laughter and cheers, oh yes it was! The @gatehouse_theatre production of Sleeping Beauty was incredible, and the children LOVED it!! Two of our children even got the chance to go on the stage! What a great experience!
We love our Christmas panto tradition and we can’t wait to do it all over again next year! ❤️
🎄Please join us for our Christmas Carol Concert on Thursday 18th December @ St Editha’s church in Church Eaton.
🎄We have a 2pm performance and a 6pm performance. All are welcome!
🎄We cannot wait to show you what the children have been practising, it will be a very special event where we can all come together to celebrate Christmas ❤️
If you would like anymore information, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office....
We had a brilliant morning last Friday, welcoming the parents in for the morning! We launched our new Pupil Development Passport to the parents and had them in for our changemaker morning! All classes looked at ‘what makes me happy’. The children, with the help of their parents, creating a mood board on what makes them happy. They turned out brilliantly! It was such a special morning and the end product was spectacular!
We ❤️ parent mornings and love getting the chance to show off the amazing things we do at Church Eaton Primary School!...
Reception admissions for 2026! We would love it if parents and carers considered Church Eaton Primary School for their child’s reception place for the 2026-2027 academic year!
Information you need to know: • Apply for a Reception place for September 2026 through Stafford Council’s admission system.
• On-time application deadline: 15th January 2026
• Offer day: 16th April 2026
Make sure you submit your application on time to give your child the best chance of joining our beautiful school community! ❤️...
What an amazing art workshop the children had last week! They had the opportunity to create some hot chocolate reindeers and some snow globes! The children even got to create their own santas! The children loved it and had a fabulous time!
A massive thank you to Claire Arnott for running the workshop for us and thank you to @faces_churcheatonptfa for all your support with the event! We couldn’t do it without you! ❤️...
Class 1 has thoroughly enjoyed exploring the tyres that were kindly donated by a grandparent from school. I expect there will be an added station to the ever growing obstacle course at school. Or we may have some magical mystery journeys with them!! #outdoorclassroom #grossmotorskills #tyreplay...
💛A really successful day for Children in Need! @bbccin
💛Today, our school community came together in the best way! Pupils showed their amazing generosity by coming in their own clothes and bringing in non-perishable food as a donation for Children in Need.
💛Thank you to all our pupils and families for supporting Children in Need and helping those who need it most!...
SUAT supports and leads in the set-up of new academies joining the partnership. The services provided by the central support function cover both educational and non-educational support. In terms of educational support, SUAT is linked to the School of Education of Staffordshire University, which is an outstanding ITT provider.
Admissions 2026
For more information on Reception places for September 2026 or to book a visit to our wonderful school, please call our school office on 01785 823 089.
