Staff Bulletin

ISSUE 24

18th-22nd March 2019

THIS WEEK'S NEWS

RED NOSE DAY Thanks to all for your efforts today. Also, a huge thanks to Debs and the School Council for selling the various items over the past week - I know there have been a few late nights of cake decorating for Debs - thanks!
EASTER SERVICE A sign up sheet will be placed in the staffroom next week for classes to acknowledge what they're going to do at the service taking place on the last day of term.
READING DROP-INS are going to take place on Tuesday and Thursday morning next week. The logistics of the day will be as follows:
- 9am: Parents and carers in hall for presentation. I will explain to parents about the key strategies we include through reciprocal reading: i.e. Predicting, Questioning and Summarising.
- 9.15 - 10am: Parents into classes dropping into a reading lesson. Teachers are welcome to deliver a lesson in anyway they feel suitable for their class.
- 10am Assembly - Parents to leave.
EASTER BINGO The PTA have organised an event to take place at Leesa Vain dance studio on Friday 29th March at 7pm. Tickets will be available to families from Monday. Members of staff are more than welcome to come along and support the event/help out - please sign up in the staffroom if you are able to attend.
NO MICHELLE WILD Michelle will be off for the next couple of weeks.
PGCE STUDENT Chloe Jones starts her placement in Y1 from Monday and she will be with us until the 20th June.
TEACHER ASSESSMENT AND EFFORT GRADES are due in two weeks (29th March) as Spring term reports will be sent out the following week.
SUPPLY TA Welcome to Mrs Ahmed who will be with us in Y3 until SATS. She will do the timetable that Lynn does (i.e. class and dinnertime) After that, we're planning on having a little swap around with KS2 TA's.
DEPUTY HEAD POSITION The position has been advertised and the closing date for applicants is 12pm on 28th March. There has already been some interested and you may see MK showing prosepective candidates around school over the next few weeks.
ROBINWOOD Hugh thanks to GW, SN, SH and AR for giving up your time to accompany the Y5's on their residential. Without your support, events like this wouldn't be able to take place. We have booked next year's residential for the Y5's and it will take place in September. We expect better weather!

TEACHING AND LEARNING

MATHS TESTS Next week is timetabled for the White Rose Hub Maths Tests to support with teacher assessment for the Spring Term. Please complete the two papers and record results onto SIMS. All tests are on the staff drive.
HUMANITIES BIG FINISH is only a few weeks away. ZM will be organising.
MONITORING Apologies about not completing the learning environment checks throughout the whole of the school - we're running a little behind in the schedule!
SUBJECT TEAMS A reminder that Spring term responsibilities are as follows:

Please speak to MK if you need any help, advice or need to request time (using the link below).

OUR VISION FOR MATHS See screenshots below showing a guide for how we would like maths lessons to be structured, although this doesn't need to be followed exactly each lesson - Laura liked how each teacher personalised their lessons unlike her own school which are more regimented.
PE PLANNING For when you're delivering an additional lesson all the planning can be found here: O:\Curriculum & Planning\2018-19\05 Short Term Planning and Resources\PE Planning\Spring

REMINDERS

CARETAKER Mr Henson will be returning as our caretaker from Monday April 1st (Dave finishes the end of March.)
WAGE SLIPS will be emailed to your work email address from the summer. Any questions, speak to Karen.
BEHAVIOR INCIDENTS / YELLOW / RED CARDS Updated cards are now in the staffroom. These can be filled in by any member of staff. Once filled in they need to be passed to the school office who will record the incident onto SIMS. It is the class teachers responsibility to ensure it's given to the office and recorded. The new 'behaviour incident' slips are for those occasions that don't warrant a yellow card but the incident needs logging.
BAR MODELLING REMINDER
PE NOMINATION In assembly, the children were shown how to nominate another pupil for a Kids4Kids Award. The award is being run by EdStart - our PE providers. Children nominate a pupil that they feel show commitment and attitude to sport. Nominations can also be received from teachers. There are some lovely prizes that can be won - which will announced just before Easter.
EXTRA WEDNESDAY PE LESSONS are now timetabled into the school calendar once every three weeks for classes. I know it's cold but you must give your pupils the opportunity for the extra PE lesson! Planning is available on the staff drive - alternatively, chat to Jenny and she'll let you know where they're up too.
LINK GOVERNORS A quick reminder:

Inclusion

A new 'intimate care' policy has been written recently and is available on the staff drive.
If you have any concerns regarding IEP's please speak to Gemma asap.

Health and Safety

LADDERS Putting up a display? Please make sure you’re using ladders and not chairs and tables.
Seen anything of a CONCERN? Please fill in the appropriate form in the staff room and hand in to the office as soon as possible.

Safeguarding

If you see someone in school that you don't know - without a pass - please challenge them and ask them who they are!
Make sure you're always wearing a pass!
Remind children that staff have a blue pass and visitors have a yellow pass.

Pupil Voice

TURTLE COMPETITION The eco council will continue monitoring the class bins for recycling. A class each will be announced as a winner with the class in the lead at the end of the each half term will get a whole class reward.

Course / Visit Feedback

Staff 'Drop-in' Feedback

PiraMidd Feedback

Keep completing these online forms to feedback on courses, visits and drop ins. This includes visits to other schools, collaborative groups…etc. It helps us keep an impact on any CPD that takes place.

Subject Leader Time Request

Complete this online form to request time to for subject leadership. Marc or Carolyn will respond to any requests.

CPOMS

Link for logging incidents on CPOMS. If it's urgent - see Carolyn (Designated Safeguarding Lead) or Jane (Deputy DSL) immediately. If they're not available please see MK or GW.

Website of the week

https://mathsbot.com/ On-screen maths manipulatives.

✅ Acknowledge all work

✅ Review, review and review learning throughout a lesson. Keep referring back to LI and SC and how well they’re doing.

✅ Can’t think of something to write when feeding back?? Remember: QUESTION-ACTION-CHALLENGE

✅ Library days: Mon – 5/6, Tues – 3/4, Weds – 1/2, Thurs – R.

✅ Now Try…Explain why…are two great sentence starters (particularly for Maths) when feeding back.

✅ Plan time for pupils to respond to feedback – make sure you demonstrate this .

✅ Spellings should be: differentiated, linked to the writing genre if possible and taught using meaningful / fun activities.

✅ Please keep on top of marking - especially cross curricular which should also follow the marking policy.