Bellefield Primary and Nursery School
General Information
- Address: Windermere Road, Trowbridge, BA14 8TE – View on map
- Phone: 01225753530
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Katie Scaplehorn
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 30 families put it first for 30 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 81
- % eligible for free school meals: 27.6%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 24% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 0% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Wiltshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Wiltshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 16.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Speech, language and communication 10 places · 6 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 42 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 41% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 18 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 38% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 38%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 73% · Writing 50% · Maths 66% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 61%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 102
- Based on: 44 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 150th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =145Wellington Eagles Primary Academy43%
- #149Aloeric Primary School42%
- =150Bellefield Primary and Nursery School41%
- =150The Avenue Primary School and Children's Centre41%
- =152Keevil CofE Primary School40%
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11th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #9Ashton Keynes Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #10Baydon St Nicholas Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #11Bellefield Primary and Nursery SchoolGood
- #12Bemerton St John Church of England PrimaryGood
- #13Bishops Cannings Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,579 (2024-25)
64th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #62Pembroke Park Primary School£7,620
- #63Keevil CofE Primary School£7,580
- #64Bellefield Primary and Nursery School£7,579
- #65Wellington Lions Primary Academy£7,533
- #66Wellington Eagles Primary Academy£7,530
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