Dear Parents/guardians,
I hope that you and your children have had an enjoyable summer break and that pupils are excited about returning to school. We have an inset day on Monday 2nd September and all pupils return to school on Tuesday 3rd September. Breakfast club and after school club will run as normal on this day. This newsletter contains information which I hope you will find useful.
School Development Plan:
During the summer holidays I have been busy reviewing progress made last year and formulating our new school development plan.
Areas for development this year:
- Further raise standards in teaching and learning. Focus on retrieval practice.
- Refine the provision for independent learning across the school to ensure there is appropriate challenge for all pupils
- Develop the use of Welsh throughout the school in order to improve pupils’ skills in speaking Welsh
- Continue to refine our curriculum to ensure the principles of progression support planning, learning and teaching.
- Develop quality outdoor learning and experiences for all pupils to develop healthy, confident learners.
I will add our school development plan to the school website when I have finished consulting stakeholders.
Attendance
Since the covid-19 pandemic, school attendance across Wales has been severely impacted. Our attendance last year finished at 93.8%. Our target is 95%.
We are under increasing pressure to improve our attendance. It became apparent last year that attendance on Fridays in some asymmetric schools was significantly lower than attendance Monday to Thursday. We will continue to monitor attendance on Fridays separately with aim of improving this. We are going to be enhancing our attendance rewards and children with attendance over 95% at the end of the autumn term will receive a special treat.
Thank you for your continued support.
Inset days for 2024-2025
- Monday 2nd September 2024 - Focus: Direct Instruction and Teacher Modeling.
- Wednesday 9th October 2024 - Focus: Oracy, independence and continuous and enhanced provision.
- Monday 21st November - Focus: Cluster Working.
- Friday 10th January - Focus: Welsh Language.
- Friday 23rd June - Cluster Day Two
- Day Six will be taken as twilight sessions.
Headteacher's Coffee Afternoon
On Tuesday 17th September I will hold a headteacher's coffee session at 15:30. The meeting will be held in Mrs. Makepeace's class. This will be an opportunity for an informal chat about anything that parents would like to discuss - be it something that you think we are doing well, something which you think I might have missed, or an area of concern. All parents are welcome.