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Pembroke Primary School Governors’ AGM Full Report Inside this issue: Chairman’s Letter 2 Your Governing Body—Who’s Who 3 Letter From the Headteacher 4 Teaching Staff—Who’s Who 5 Pembroke Primary School. Fairfield Road, School Development 6 Chepstow, Monmouthshire. Curriculum 8 NP16 5JN Performance 9 Phone 01291 622310 Special Educational Needs 12 Sport 14 Follow us: Attendance 18 @PembrokePrimary Finiancial Statement 19 Term Dates 20 A Letter from the Who’s Who. Full Report Page 3 Chairman of the Your Governing Body Dear Parents and Friends Head teacher Mrs J Childs (Acting Head Teacher) As your new Chair of Governors, I am pleased to introduce our annual Governors Report to Parents. It has been a Parent Governors (Total 4) Local Authority (LA) Governors (Total 3) very busy year for the school with many changes and an ESTYN inspection all taking place over the past 12 Elected by the parents. Appointed by Monmouthshire LEA. months. Despite these challenges, staff and pupils have provided an inspiring example of how not to let upheaval Mrs Natalie Morgan (2018) Mr A Braund (Vice Chair) (2019) affect their outlook or attitude to learning. Mr K Brews (2019) Mrs Kelly Rennie (Chair) (2015) Mr M Pullen (2019) Vacancy We began the year with Mrs Child in place as Acting Headteacher due to Mr Keeble's illness. We were very sad to Vacancy see Mr Keeble leave the school this Easter, but grateful to Mrs Child for continuing to lead the school over the Community Governors (Total 4) Summer term and the Autumn term of this academic year. As Mrs Child moves on to a headship elsewhere in Jan- Teacher Governors (Total 1) Must include a member from Chepstow Town uary, we welcome Mrs Hampson as our new Headteacher from January 2016. Elected by the teachers. Council and be invited to join the Governing Mrs F Wilson (2017) body. We also said goodbye to our previous Chair of Governors, Bryan Roberts. Bryan was a well known face around the Mrs Y Havard (2015) school, who dedicated over 15 years to Pembroke, not only as a governor but as Chair of Governors for the last Non-teacher Governor (Total 1) Mr D Keating (2015) two years. We thank Bryan for the immense contribution he made to the school over this time. Elected by the auxiliary staff. Mr T White (2018) Despite a challenging financial climate for schools across Wales, we continue to manage a sustainable budget and Miss S Sykes (2017) Cllr H Beach (Town Council) (2016) are on course to do so again this year. Since our ESTYN inspection, governors, the senior leadership team and staff have worked hard to address the recommendations for improvement and are already making progress. We remain committed to helping all our learn- The Chairman of the Governing body can be contacted via the school. ers to succeed to the best of their ability: happy and secure, learning together. The Clerk can be contacted via Andrew Wilson; Email address: [email protected] Telephone: 01633 644484. The Local Authority (LA) can be contacted via Ms. S. McGuinness, Chief Officer Children and Young People, Monmouth- shire County Council, County Hall, USK NP15 1SJ. The Chepstow Primary Alliance What happens at a Governors’ meeting? Link Governor reports The Full Governing Body meets twice a term. The The Chepstow Primary Alliance was born in the autumn of 2014. It was set up by Monmouthshire County Council as meetings primarily consist of a school to school improvement initiative. During the first year we set up teacher job shadowing, year group net- Various LA reports and recommendations for the works, joint training for the three schools and governor training. We also developed a joint self evaluation policy Head teacher’s report Governing body to adopt or adjust to suit the and procedure to support school improvement. Sub-committee reports school, School development progress along with other issues pertinent to the running and As Executive Headteacher of the alliance Jayne Edwards has had the privilege of supporting leadership in the Health & Safety issues management of the school. three schools and been involved in the recruitment process of two new head teachers within the alliance. All three schools have benefitted from being part of an alliance in terms building leadership sustainability and capacity, sharing good practice and joint training. During the recent ESTYN inspections the alliance work has There have been a number of changes in the Governing Body over the last year, the list above shows the make-up as of September 2015. Governors are in post for 4 years; the end date of each governors term of service is in brackets. been seen as positive in terms of leadership and school improvement. The Instrument of Government states that the governing body shall consist of 14 members as detailed in the categories above. Recruitment of new Parent Governors to replace those retiring may involve an election, details of which will be circulated. Vacancies in School support staff, and A Letter from the Who’s Who. Full Report Page 5 Head Teacher Present School Staff Dear Parents Dear Parents were very successful; the Christmas and Summer Fayre, termly school discos and regular raffles. The year has flown by and it has been a year full of Some money spent this year has gone on the devel- Mrs. J Wakley events and activity! opment of the school library and fantastic hoodies Mrs. J Child for our Y6 leavers. Classes are also encouraged to The classes were immersed in a range of topics request the PTFA for individual “wish list” items Deputy Head Teacher Acting Head Teacher during the year and, of course, demonstrated en- they may like for the class. A very big thank you thusiasm and exceptional behaviour throughout the must go to Elaine White who retired from the year. Varied trips and visitors continued to en- PTFA in July following the departure of her son to hance the curriculum for all the children. The secondary school. A team of parents are in place to school also had an expected 4-day inspection from continue her hard work and efforts. Estyn in June. Teachers Our partnership with Gwent Music Support remains We introduced the alternative to a class assembly strong. A large number of pupils across the school with a parent event for all year groups. This ranged learn to play a variety of instruments including Year 6 Mrs F Wilson (SMT) from Winter Workshops in Nursery to the wonders Woodwind, Brass, String and Celtic Music, and con- Year 5 Mr S Giles of the forest school in year 5, from a minibeast tinuing with the whole class project with violins in Year 4 Mrs J Wakley (DHT) Additional Learning Centre (ALC) assembly in Reception to a varied production from the Reception class. We were fortunate to be able Year 3 Mr M Greening Year 6 about their residential trip to Cardiff. to continue being able to subsidise lessons for all Year 2 Mrs N Stephens (SMT) Mr S Carnell (SMT) These events were very well attended by parents children who choose to take up an instrument. Year 1 Mrs A Knight Mrs J Carpenter and families, thank you for your continued support. As I mentioned above, Estyn visited in June. Their Reception Miss L Tonks Mrs N Tyson findings from the Inspection were well matched to Nursery Mrs C Rees Year 5 spent a week at Hilston Park, where they those the school had identified in the school self- really embraced the challenge and excitement of evaluation report. The school formulated a Post being away from home. They represented Pembroke Inspection Action Plan in July, which is the driver superbly! to school improvement over the next year and be- Teaching Assistants yond. The PTFA continued to raise money, which is rein- vested directly into the school. All events held Miss R Pope (HLTA) Mrs L Greening Mrs L Steele Mrs B Roberts (HLTA) Miss C Harris Mrs S Sykes Mrs J Rowberry (HLTA) Mrs S Hughes Mrs J Townsend Statement on Healthy Eating Community Links Mrs J Williams (HLTA) Mrs M Jones Miss Wilson Mrs K Barker Miss D Kent Mrs S Wooster Miss K Bees Mrs S Matthews The School firmly believes in healthy eating and has a We value community links and appreciate the impact that Miss K Dawe Mrs M Saunders this can have on pupil learning. The school has links in many community areas; Pembroke Toilet Facilities: Times encourage businesses to purchase space in their School Staff Toilets are inspected and maintained daily by the School magazine to advertise space. Cleaners. Our Site Manager, Mr Reeves carries out Tesco run a "Farm to Fork" programme which some classes Senior Admin Officer Lunchtime Supervisors accessed this year and opportunities to visit local business- Mrs S Evans Mrs Burton es is encouraged, e.g. Reception visit to Homebase and Administration Staff Miss Burton Language of the School (PLASC): weekly Nursery shopping in Lidl. Mrs M Hall Mrs Mackie The language of the School is English but the Welsh lan- Site Manager Mrs Stait guage features daily in assemblies and classrooms. Mr N Reeves Miss Yendle School Development Full Report What will we be Page 7 School Improvement Plan (S.I.P) is a document that outlines the school’s in- tention to provide or improve upon :- targeting this year? Raising Standards Teaching Leadership ICT Estyn Inspection Welsh Leadership Writing Progress for 2014-15 Priorities for 2015-16 Teaching and Learning Our priorities for this year are based on the six recommendations outlined in the Estyn Inspection Report from June 2015.