MESSAGE FROM MARY-ANGELA
Tēnā koutou katoa - warm greetings to everyone on this cool winter’s day!
Everyone is now well settled into our winter term. As always, it is lovely to see the children’s smiling faces as they enter the gate each morning. Thank you for your support in re-implementing our procedures around mask-wearing when inside at school. All the staff and students have demonstrated their commitment to keeping everyone safe through this measure.
Thank you also to those of you who have accepted nominations to stand for our Board of Trustees - it is wonderful to have a number of candidates.
MID-YEAR ACHIEVEMENT REPORT
A reminder that our school-wide annual targets for 2022 are:
- Literacy progress of all target learners will be accelerated through creating texts to communicate knowledge and understanding.
- Maths progress of all target learners will be accelerated in the Additive Thinking Aspect.
Accelerated progress means that the child (who may have been making slower than typical progress in the past) is now progressing faster than the typical pace - which means that they are well-placed to ‘catch up’ with their peers.
UPDATE ON OUR PROGRESS AGAINST THESE TARGETS:
LITERACY TARGET: From the 37 children we identified at the beginning of the year whose progress we wanted to accelerate through targeted interventions, 11 have already made accelerated progress through the first half of the year.
MATHS TARGET: From the 33 children we identified at the beginning of the year whose progress we wanted to accelerate through targeted interventions, 13 have already made accelerated progress through the first half of the year.
HOW ARE WE SUPPORTING THIS PROGRESS?
Across our three teaching teams we have several interventions in place (in the table below) to support accelerated progress for these learners. These interventions below are in addition to a balanced learning programme which includes responsive activities to encourage a love of learning, such as learning through play, agentic/empowering learning approaches, integrations across learning areas, structured literacy approach (students need to master three key areas of reading and writing: learning the code, making meaning, and thinking critically), developing number sense, approaches to problem-solving in authentic contexts, collaborative approaches, etc.
DRS MESSAGE
ST ANNE & JOACHIM
Last week the Catholic church celebrated St Anne & Joachim - the grandparents of Jesus. This is a special time to reflect on the grandparents in our life. We give thanks to our grandparents for offering us so much strength, information and guidance. If you’re blessed with grandparents who are still living, this celebration is a good opportunity to call or visit them.
Madeline Smith
DRS
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