Meet the Teacher – Autumn 2015 Together Everyone Achieves More

RE-DEFINING LEARNING AT HEMINGFORD GREY 21ST CENTURY LEARNING SPACES EXCEEDING POTENTIAL CHILD AS LEARNER 21ST CENTURY TOOLS RE-DEFINING LEARNING AT HEMINGFORD GREY ADULT AS ENABLER 21ST CENTURY LEARNING SPACES LEARNING FRAMEWORK SHARED VISION ZONES OF LEARNING GREAT TEACHING OUTSTANDING LEARNING ENGAGING CURRICULUM ENVIRONMENT

GROWTH MINDSET POCKET BOOK BARRY HYMER GROWTH MINDSET POCKET BOOK www.teacherspocketbooks.co.uk

Who’s Who… Teachers

Teaching assistants

Who’s Who … additional teachers

Key successes for last year… Extremely impressive Ofsted report Results all above national Developing school house system: - Inter-house competitions - Developing cross phase positive peer relationships Pupils behaviour Continuing to be a research school for new teachers, Cambridge University

Theme and learning experiences Year 5/6 Theme has been launched this week. “What did the Tudors do for us?”

Flow chart

Children’s School Improvement Plan

ICT opportunities

Spelling Spelling will continue to be a focus. Children will be developing their phonics and spelling knowledge daily in class, linked to letter patterns and common rules. This will be followed up at home and we ask for your support in this.

Homework Mathletics – 1 hour per week Reading – 20 minutes 5x a week Spelling – weekly list Learning logs – fortnightly Children need to bring their reading books and records daily

Attendance and Punctuality Doors open at 8.50am. School starts at 9.00am and the registers close at this time. Children arriving in the classroom after 9.00am will be marked as late. School attendance 2014-15: 96.9% National (2013-14): 96.1% Attendance dropping below 90% results in school contacting parents with improvements expected.

Website www.hemingfordgrey.cambs.sch.uk/site Please visit the site for all school information including bulletins about our latest successes and achievements as well as information about our curriculum.

Uniform Please ensure that children are following the school uniform code as set out in the letter sent out before the summer holidays, which can also be viewed on the website. http://www.hemingfordgrey.cambs.sch.uk/site/26533-parents-pages/page-110580-school-uniform

Trips and Visits London trip 30th September Payments to be made through Agora Local trips will take place throughout the year Any parents with DBS checks are always welcome to support trips

SATS 2016 Week beginning: 9th May 2016 Assessment without levels English Reading and SPaG Mathematics Writing – teacher assessed No level 6 tests Drop in meeting early Spring term

Year 6 Parents Evening 4 way meeting Parents – teacher –head teacher – pupil Pupil teacher meetings will continue throughout the year to assess progress and set individual targets

Opportunities for Year 6 children House Captains – 2 per house Eco Committee – 3 reps from Year 6 Digital leaders – 2 reps from Year 6 School responsibilities: Office jobs Assembly assistants Librarians Playground Pals Buddy time

Looking forward to a fantastic year ahead…! Working in an inspiring learning environment. Redesigning learning opportunities Continuing to develop our pupils and teachers as outstanding learners More opportunities for ICT Continuing to develop house teams and events across the school Continuing with our high level of commitment to sport and the arts

Any questions?