Despite everyone currently learning from home we are managing to have our weekly Celebration Worship on a Friday afternoon. This week in recognition of Children's Mental Health Week we celebrated. Thanks to the wonderful generosity of our school community we collected a staggering 75 boxes in support of the FSCI (the foundation for social change and inclusion).
Our previous record. St. Katharine's is a small Church of England primary school set in the beautiful and unique location of Savernake Forest. The Forest School programme enables children to fulfil curriculum learning in the outdoor environment. Our school prides itself on the warm and nurturing relationships that it fosters, within a Christian ethos, amongst all its stakeholders.
Our previous record. St. Katharine's is a small Church of England primary school set in the beautiful and unique location of Savernake Forest. The Forest School programme enables children to fulfil curriculum learning in the outdoor environment. Our school prides itself on the warm and nurturing relationships that it fosters, within a Christian ethos, amongst all its stakeholders.
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St. Katharine's Church of England (VC) primary school is a small primary school set in the beautiful and unique location of Savernake forest, drawing many of our number on roll from beyond our catchment area. We currently have 97 children on roll aged 4-11 who come from a range of villages and hamlets in the surrounding area.
After a long and lengthy consultation with all our stakeholders, it was decided that becoming a part of the Excalibur Academies Trust would enable us to take the next step on our journey.
As part of the trust we continue to work with the educational partners that we have established relationships with namely our local Marlborough Cluster and the Local Authority but now have direct access to a family of schools that we more formally collaborate with to achieve excellence in common areas.An example of this might be work on a 'maths strategy' or the development of our practice in the area of phonics teaching.
As part of the trust we continue to work with the educational partners that we have established relationships with namely our local Marlborough Cluster and the Local Authority but now have direct access to a family of schools that we more formally collaborate with to achieve excellence in common areas.An example of this might be work on a 'maths strategy' or the development of our practice in the area of phonics teaching.
We elect a new school council each year in September. The children write manifestos and present these to the class. When voting for the school council we talk about the qualities we are looking for in the children that will be representing us. It is important that the children voted for will take time to listen and represent the views of the class thoughtfully and accurately.
We worked hard to develop our initial list of 18 values and then to canvas the opinions of parents, governors, our cleaners, the PCC, teachers and of course our wonderful learners. We celebrated having arrived at this point with the making of banners. The children then took part a procession of the banners to Church where they were blessed by Michael McHugh our vicar.
The results that we achieve are often difficult to compare with National data for achievement, as a small school we are mindful of the nature of reporting data when cohort size can vary greatly from year to year and with it the % carried by each child. Data headlines therefore need to be understood in the context of individual children and the progress they make from their starting points.
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Kimberly Sciulli
Aug 19, 2015
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