Ewell Grove is a pretty standard village school. The infant school, which it was only for a very long time, is very good and very supportive. As they rise up into junior school, they are, in my opinion, less good and certainly less academic and the school seems to have struggled to adapt to full primary status with much of the current leadership still from the days it was an infant school only.
Positives - it is a lovely environment, children are nurtured and definitely encouraged to be confident and try different things with proactive attempts to help them be confident by speaking/performing in public, taking part in a wide range of activities etc. This plays out even when they are out of school - I see children I know/recognise from Ewell Grove regularly stepping up at clubs, activities, high school etc.
The teachers are generally very nice and the children mostly like them.
Negatives - Academics are weaker (although I think they're working on this). Almost zero extra curricular activities or sports and what they do offer is very ad hoc and short term. Wrap around care is good, but very limited. Willingness to engage with parents is weak (this might change with the new head - I don't know) which can make feeding back or engaging with school quite irritating. SEN support is erratic - appears to vary massively according to how the child presents and, I suspect, engagement with parents (I know SEN parents who have been very happy and SEN parents who have been forced to remove their children from the school completely.)
Catchment zone is small so driving isn't really necessary mostly but there is ample parking at Bourne Hall or behind the Green Man if needed (please don't park illegally on West street, it's dangerous and annoying for residents).