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Prospectus v3
Prospectus v3
Prospectus v3
Dear Parent, May we take this opportunity to welcome you to Kemble Primary School and invite you to visit the school if you would like your child to join us. Kemble is a small, happy school where children can thrive in a friendly, supportive, village environment. The school benefits from having strong links with the local community, and in addition has a strong sense of community within it. We value every child and aim to foster independence, ambition and a love of learning. The school provides a broad and balanced education offering many extra-curricular opportunities. We aim to ensure that all of our children achieve well; valuing academic, sporting and artistic success, as well as ensuring that our children become well rounded members of the community. Kemble School enjoys active support from parents. We have a thriving Parents Group, which organises social events for children and adults, and many parents and friends of the school give their time to come into school to help in the classroom and serve on the governing body. If there is any additional information that you require please do not hesitate to contact us. Chris Conners Headteacher Therese Munro Chair of Governors
Shirley Day Nicky Florence Stacey Bryant Katie Poole - Gleed Margaret Mant
We have a home-school agreement, which explains the aims and values of the school. This is available through our website or from the school office. All parents are invited to sign this agreement. When children reach junior school age, Year 3, they are invited to sign the agreement as well. Parents evenings are held twice a year, in November and March, for you and your childs teacher to discuss their progress. During the year you will receive two interim progress reports in December and March, and a longer, more detailed report during the summer term. Results of Standard Assessment Tests will be given at the end of Year 2 and Year 6 and teacher assessments will be given annually as part of the end of year report.
Healthy Eating
To encourage healthy eating, we have an outdoor area devoted to growing vegetables. The children are involved with this project, from planting to harvesting, and get to eat the results of their labour. We have achieved Healthy School and Healthy Schools Futures Status.
A healthy lunch is cooked in the school kitchen daily and served along with fresh fruit & salad, and home-baked bread. Many of our children benefit from a hot meal each day, but alternatively they may bring a packed lunch. The national school fruit and vegetable scheme provides every child aged four to six with a free piece of fresh fruit or vegetable each school day at morning playtime. We hope you will share our belief that it has many benefits. It is a great way to help us teach our children the benefits of healthy eating.
in all we do
We follow the national curriculum and so cover many subjects such as: English, maths, science, PE, ICT, art, design technology, RE, history, geography, PSHE, french and music. We teach using a cross curricular approach meaning that many of the subjects are grouped around a central topic focus for the term. For more information please see our school website. We also value wider aspects of the curriculum such as sport, music and drama. The children in KS1 produce an annual nativity and the children in KS2 produce a biennial summer extravaganza. We also have two choirs and have music tuition for a wide range of instruments such as piano, flute, guitar, cornet and drums. Each year the children enjoy entertaining members of the community with a concert. We have fantastic grounds and try to use them to their full potential. We grow fruit and vegetables that we use in our cooking, and use our outdoor classroom for learning across a range of subjects and through our forest school. For two terms out of three all the children spend an afternoon in the forest school area learning teamwork skills and conservation as well as using the time to enhance understanding of other subjects. The children do forest school in all weathers and so will need to make sure that they bring warm clothing during the colder months.
When weather is fine green and white checked dresses, grey shorts and sandals with a flat and enclosed heel may also be worn. Dark green fleece jackets with the school logo on are now also available.
A white T-shirt and black shorts with black daps or bare feet are worn for indoor P.E. Track suits and trainers may also be worn for outdoor P.E. For health and safety reasons the only jewellery that may be worn is a watch and plain stud earrings. These must be removed for P.E. and Games.
If a doctor considers that your child is well enough to be in school we are able to give prescribed medicines if you are unable to come into school to give this yourself. We are able to administer
medication to children suffering from medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes or allergies. Children in KS2 who Before any outside service is require an inhaler are encouraged to take requested parents will be consulted. ownership of taking it. If your child is too ill to attend school please let the school know by 9:15 am.
Breakfast Club from: 7:30am Into playground from: 8:30am Start: 8:45am Break: 10:15 - 10:30 Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00 KS1 break: 2:30 End of day: 3:00
It is very important that children arrive in school for 8:45 am. Often, just being a few minutes late can have a considerable, negative impact on childrens learning as they miss the introduction to the first lesson.
Children will have homework from the time that they are ready, which could vary from a list of key words to read in Reception to a piece of English, maths and science in Year 5/6. All children from Year 1 upwards receive a weekly spelling list and every child is expected to read daily. We pride ourselves on offering a wide range of clubs and we currently run a Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 football club, netball club, multiskills club, maths club, choir and drama club. We continually change our sporting clubs to reflect the time of the year.
Parents are informed if teachers feel that a child has learning difficulties. Children with special educational needs are taught and cared for under the Code of Practice for Special Educational Needs. The school is committed to increasing access to the school for pupils with disabilities. Parents with any concerns about their childrens learning, behavioural or physical development, should talk to the class teacher, the SENCO or the head teacher. Many problems can be successfully overcome by co-operation between parents and staff. If necessary the head can arrange for help or advice from the Local Authoritys Special Needs services. Children identified as Gifted and Talented are challenged further through participation in multi-school focused events.
School Council
Each class elects members to participate on the school council. This group is involved with decisions relating to the running of the school, such as tidiness of the cloakrooms, buying equipment, running competitions and choosing charities to support. We also have an eco council which have helped the school secure Eco schools status.
2013 data
This table shows our latest KS1 data
% L1 + Reading Writing Maths 100 100
100
% 2C+
100 100 100
% 2B+
100 90 100
% 2A+
60 50 50
% L3+
30 10 10
% 4+ 100 92 92
% L5+ 77 69 92
%L6+
31
This prospectus provides just a summary of some of the many wonderful things that our school does everyday. For more information please feel free to browse our school website. http://www.kemble.gloucs.sch.uk/