It is hard to believe that the year has passed so quickly. It has been a truly wonderful year in school, with a return to whole school collaboration and the children have all flourished. I am incredibly proud of our whole school community with how hard everyone has worked and putting the children’s needs at the heart of everything we have done.
It is been an absolute pleasure working with all our pupils and our families this year. We are very grateful for your support and I am personally very proud of our school community.
Term dates
Term dates are on the term dates tab but an outline is below. I will put half termly dates in the same tab but please checks texts for any changes as we go through the year.
Term Dates 2022-2023
Please note we have not put in our 5 INSET days yet
- 1 September 2022 to 21 October 2022 (37 days)
- 31 October 2022 to 22 December 2022 ( 39 days)
- 9 January 2023 to 17 February 2023 (30 days)
- 27 February 2023 to 31 March 2023 (25 days)
- 17 April 2023 to 26 May 2023 (1 May 2023 is a bank holiday) (29 days)
- 5 June 2023 to 21 July 2023 (35 days)
Insets
- Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd September 2022
- Friday 21st October 2022
- Thursday 22nd December 2022
- Friday 17th February 2023
Plans for next year will be shared in more detail in September but below is a summary.
- At lunchtime and breaktimes, the playground will return to how it was before lockdowns with activities being led by staff. Miss Taylor will continue training and working with the buddies and Miss Weir will support midday supervisors.
- Reception, Y1, Y2, KS1 and the Y2/3 class will have a protected area in the garden playground but they will be able to mix with the older pupils if they want to.
- Outdoor areas will be set up with activities and football area will be age appropriate on a timetable and will be refereed by staff or buddies.
- At lunchtime, the garden building will be be staffed to allow pupils to read or take part in planned activities.
- Themed weeks – The last week of every half term will be a themed week and groups of classes will feedback to each other and / or work collaboratively. Parents may be invited in depending on the activities.
- Autumn 1 – Science and Investigation week
- Autumn 2 – Christmas in other cultures
- Spring 1 – Artists
- Spring 2 – Countries and cultures
- Summer 1 – Sport and outdoor learning
- Summer 2 – Inspirational people
- Gold system – This system will be reviewed and we are looking at how we can use class dojo to support the systems.
Assessment
Please find the assessment results for the key areas in school but please be aware that it still needs to be validated by the DFE. The data is looking very positive and more importantly, it is supported by what we are seeing in school. This is a result of the changes made, hard work of the staff, your support as families and your children working hard. There will continue to be changes and we will continue to make sure all pupils get the very best school experience.
Key
EXS is working at age related expectation.
GDS is working at greater depth / above age related expectation.
EYFS GLD
GLD means good level of development and children must meet the standards in all seven areas of learning.
| 2022 | 2019 | ||
| School | National | Difference | |
| 67% | 65% | +2% | 70% |
Phonics – Year 1
| 2022 | 2019 | ||||
| Year 1 | Year 1 | ||||
| School | National | Difference | School | National | Difference |
| 76.7% | 75.5 | +1.2 | 85.7% | 81.9% | +3.8% |
Phonics – KS1
| 2022 | 2019 | ||||
| Year 1 | Year 1 | ||||
| School | National | Difference | School | National | Difference |
| 96.7% | 86.8 | +9.9 | 93.9% | 91.4% | +2.5% |
KS1 SATs Results Working at age related
| 2022 | 2019 | |||||
| School | National | Difference | School | National | Difference | |
| Reading | 76.7% | 66.9% | +9.8% | 79.6% | 74.9% | +4.7 |
| Writing | 70% | 57.7% | +12.3% | 75.5% | 69.2% | 6.3% |
| Maths | 73.3% | 67.7% | +5.6% | 75.5% | 75.6 | -0.01 |
KS1 SATs Results Working at greater depth
| 2022 | 2019 | |||||
| School | National | Difference | School | National | Difference | |
| Reading | 20% | 18% | +2% | 22.4% | 25% | -2.6 |
| Writing | 0% | 8% | -8% | 18.4% | 14.8% | +3.6 |
| Maths | 26.7% | 15.1% | +11.6 | 16.3% | 21.7% | -5.4 |
KS2 SATs Results Working at age related
| 2022 | 2019 | |||||
| School | National | Difference | School | National | Difference | |
| Reading | 77.8% | 74.5% | +3.3 | 60.9% | 73.2% | -12.3% |
| Writing | 68.9% | 69.5% | -0.6 | 65.2% | 78.4% | -13.2% |
| Maths | 66.7% | 71.4% | -4.7 | 50% | 78.7% | -28.7% |
| Combined | 53.3% | 58.7% | -5.4 | 37% | 64.9% | -27.9 |
KS2 SATs Results Working at greater depth
| 2022 | 2019 | |||||
| School | National | Difference | School | National | Difference | |
| Reading | 26.7% | 27.8% | -1.1% | 17.4% | 27% | -9.6 |
| Writing | 4.4% | 12.8% | -8.4% | 6.5% | 20.1% | -13.6% |
| Maths | 28.9% | 22.4% | +6.5 | 10.9% | 26.6% | -15.9% |
Have an amazing summer break and I am looking forward to seeing all of you in September.
Mr Woodward
