ABSTRACT
Kates Hill is an inner-city primary school of 380 pupils with, in addition, a sixty-place nursery unit that provides 100 half-day places and, for a limited number of hardship cases, up to ten full-day places. Three out of four pupils are from non-white families, a small number from Afro-Caribbean or mixed-race families, but well over half the total school roll is of Asian origin, mostly from Pakistan immigrant families. The multi-ethnic composition of the school and community has profound implications for the way in which the school has addressed the issues of its role and function.
