Welcome Dear Parents and Carers, It has been an excellent first half term with our attendance remaining strong in the face of coughs colds and sickness bugs. There are currently 176 children from reception to year 6 who have achieved 100% attendance this half term and a further 72 pupils who have achieved between 96% and 99.9%. This is a great achievement and is up considerably from last year. This half term the school has worked hard to identify the correct reading level for your child so that when they take a book home it will match their reading ability more accurately. With this now in place we are introducing a new system (Accelerated Reader https://www.renaissance.com/products/accelerated-reader/ ) after half term to ensure that this work is fully embedded across the school. The expectation moving forward will be that children will read five times a week and record this in their reading record. Once they have completed a book at their level, they will undertake a short online quiz about the book to determine their understanding of the content of the book. Thank you in advance for your support in this area of the curriculum. I want to take this time as well to thank you all for your support and that you have a great half term break. Kind regards Mr N Campbell

Welcome Dear Parents and Carers, It has been a great two weeks that have flown by at school. Attendance is holding steady at 95% but remember every moment counts and we need to keep on coming to school. Reading continues to be a priority this ½ term and I am pleased to note that our library is almost ready with the new books that arrived in September. We are currently finishing a number of assessments with the children so that every child is targeted even more closely with the correct support and materials to help them make rapid progress in reading. I will share more information with you as the new systems come online but I am excited that the children will be able to access even better reading material than before. I have had discussions with many parents regarding the new Attitudes to Learning policy and the changes that have been brought in, particularly around the fantastic walking. We will be surveying the pupils regarding this before the end of the half term and I will share the results with you. In the meantime, I wanted to share the impact that the new Attitudes to Learning policy has had on the school compared with the same period last academic year. Behaviour incidents have reduced by 85%. The number of pupils involved in behaviour events has reduced by 60%. The restorative approach based on our core values is also leading to less high-level incidents across the school. There are fewer children repeatedly getting involved in poor behaviours.  This was further corroborated by our recent external SEN review who commented on the calm and positive environment in the school and the fact that the children were keen to talk through the core values of the school. Teamwork really does make the dreamwork! Thank you for your ongoing support. Kind regards Mr N Campbell