The Shorne Star www.shorne.kent.sch.uk 20 July 2018 Term 6, Issue 6 Head of School Message—Summer Term 2 Contact Information In the final newsletter of the school year I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge ‘Thank Shorne Church of England Primary School you’ to ALL parents for your support. Cob Drive Shorne I would like to thank ALL the staff and governors Nr Gravesend who have worked incredibly hard for your children Kent DA12 3DU and the school this year. As you know we had two inspections this year, OFSTED and SIAMS. Both outcomes were GOOD and as a team we are address- ing the areas of improvement and striving to become outstanding. Thank you to Mrs Tunnicliffe for her Fax: 01474 822312 continued support and to Miss Flood for her role as acting deputy head. Telephone: As you know Mr Mallinson will be joining us from 01474 822312 September and I know he will be a huge asset to the team at Shorne. Welcome back to Miss Carter and to Mrs Doerr. Email: [email protected] I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Hiscock for her time and dedication to Shorne School. She has been a dedicated and hard working employee at the school for 19 years. I would like to Year 6 wish her a happy retirement. We say goodbye to our fantastic Year 6 children Thank you to Miss Baker who has led Class three who are moving on to the next chapter in their this year and supported the staff during her time lives. They have been a superb class, showing de- here. I wish her good luck at her new school. termination and support for each other and acted as role models. We wish them well for their ex- Thank you to Ian Craig who is resigning as Chair of citing next step to secondary school. I would also Governors. On behalf of all the staff, children and like to say a big thank you for the support given by myself I would like to thank him for his time and the Year 6 parents, especially to those families expertise that he has given to the school. I would who will be leaving us. like to also thank all of the governing body who give up their time to support and work closely with the Plans for 2018-2019 leadership to bring about rapid improvement. The senior leadership team, governors and myself There will be an election in September for a new will continue to monitor strategically to bring about parent governor. I will send the information out re- improvements. We will monitor teaching and garding the process of this at the start of the new learning, the curriculum and attainment. There will academic year. Thank you to Mrs Khela who was one be a specific focus on well-being and growth mind of our parent governors but is now resigning. set next year. Parent workshops will be held throughout the year. Information regarding dates Thank you to FOSS who work extremely hard and as will be shared with you at the start of the year you know raise a significant amount of money for the and also on the website. We have received fund- school. These events have been a huge success so ing for a new roof and work will start in October. thank you to every member and a special thank you to Vicky Turner. www.shorne.kent.sch.uk 20 July 2018 Term 6, Issue 6 Attainment All staff and governors have worked extremely hard to improve attainment across all year groups and we are all incredibly proud of the children when we report that attainment has indeed improved across all year groups in comparison to last year. More information regarding data will be released next term. KS1 Reading - 90% expected and above 23% Greater Depth Writing – 70 % expected and above 23.3% Greater Depth Maths – 83.3% expected and above 33.3% Greater Depth Combined – 70 % Phonics Year 2 Retakes – 50% (6 children) Year 1 – 83% KS2 Reading - 80 % expected and above 12% Greater Depth Writing – 88 % expected and above 12% Greater Depth Maths - 88% expected and above 20% Greater Depth Combined – 76 % Finally I would like to a say a really big thank you to all of our children. They continue to be hard working, caring, full of surprises and a delight to teach. School Reports We hope that you enjoyed reading your child’s report. We have enjoyed reading your responses, thank you. There are still a number of slips to be returned so please ensure that these are sent back in September as a confirmation that you have received and read your child’s report. Uniform Reminder As you know we are very proud of how our children look in their Shorne Church of England Primary School uniform. A polite reminder about uniform as you may be purchasing new clothing over the summer holidays. Please remember that we have limited cloakroom space and children only need a small school bag rather than a huge rucksack and bows to be limited in size and to be school colours. You can visit www.schooltime.co.uk to purchase school uniform. And Finally… Have a very safe and fun holiday break. We do appreciate how well our parents support us and how lucky we are to have such great teamwork from you. Thank you to our many parent helpers who have helped out in school hearing readers, accompanied us on trips or transported children to sporting events. I would like to end by saying a very big thank you to every member of staff at Shorne Church of England Primary School who make it such a great place to work and such an excellent place for your children to come to school. Happy Holidays! Miss Hewett Head of School Sports Week www.shorne.kent.sch.uk 20 July 2018 Term 6, Issue 6 The week beginning Monday 25th June began this year’s Sports Week. Over the course of the week the children took part in many different sports and sporting activities. On Monday we had a variety of sports coaches come into school and the children had the opportunity to experience sports including table tennis, football, cricket, dance, golf, athletics and basketball. On Tuesday the children all took part in a mini World Cup, representing their houses in competition! We received a visit from Welsh international hockey player, Jo Westwood, on the Wednesday and she ran some hockey sessions for the children. Classes 4, 5 and 6 also took part in a Power Wave taster session. Sports Day for both KS1 and KS2 was held on the Thursday which were both very enjoyable and the children performed brilliantly! Finally on the Friday the whole school came to school dressed in sportswear for the day! This year we are also very pleased to announce that the Robert Garraway shield was awarded to Tallu- lah Barham for her sporting endeavour. Congratu- lations Tallulah! FOSS news! FOSS are absolutely delighted to everyone who volunteers to help huge thank you to Mrs Wood who announce that, despite the clash them. Not only do they provide a has done an outstanding job as with the football, last minute time fun treat for the children on a treasurer for the past two years change and incredible heat, this Friday but they also raise extra and also to Mrs Rumsey who year’s fete made a fantastic pennies for FOSS at the same stepped in as Deputy Treasurer £5500! Thank you to everyone time. Finally we’d like to thank for the past 6 months giving Mrs who helped in any way and to eve- the talented bakers and ladies Wood and the rest of the team ryone who came along and spent who organise the cake sales during invaluable support at a really busy their money. We hope you en- the year. Fortunately Mrs Gay- time! Vice Chair for the past joyed it! mer has another year at the year, Mrs Reason, has also school but we are very sorry to stepped down and we thank them We are also incredibly grateful to lose Mrs Thomas who, as well as for all their hard work and for a grandfather of a child at the the cakes, has always helped with giving up so much of their time. school who has made an incredibly a lot of unseen tasks for FOSS in generous donation of £1000 to the background. This has included Finally, as we reach the end of the FOSS! This means we will start folding and counting thousands of year we’d like to make sure every- September with a healthy balance raffle tickets and wrapping hun- one knows where the money raised to pay for any worthy funding re- dreds of selection boxes at last year has been spent! The full quests that may come in! Christmas! Thank you for every- breakdown is set out below but we thing. We will miss you! are very excited to announce that Prior to the fete we also had the FOSS and the school have split Father’s Day sale which raised Due to the late timing of the fete the cost of purchasing 32 IPads £222.95 and we’re pleased to this year, we have been unable to which will be ready to use at the have made £48.50 selling drinks hold our AGM which will now take start of the new term! Our other on Sports Day! The school uni- place on 10 September.