25 Feb 2008 - SPRING TERM - Newsletter No 21 on 25.2.08

 What’s happening in Honilands this week?

Mon    INSET Day (Training for staff on Inclusion, Identifying children’s needs, Special Needs, Gifted & Talented, English as an Additional Language, Jenny Tosh) —School Closed

Tue      9.00 Catherine Deards working in Year 5

           Magic Science in all classes

 9.30 Rick Barnes  School Self Evaluation form with the leadership team

Wed 

Thur Sara Davies working in Year 4

 Niv Colora working with Inclusion Leader

Fri  Rick Barnes in

 Debbie Jones science book scrutiny

 OFSTED FOLLOW–UP

Since the OFSTED report that you all received in December we would like to keep you informed of what we are doing to improve the school.

· The Governors have formed a Core Group and will hold the school and the local authority to account.

· A Parent Champion has been appointed to act as a conduit between the school and the parents.

· The Parent Champion will hear your views during all parent forums (held after class assemblies)

· Various consultants have been  into school and met with staff. Their work will be noted in all future newsletters.

· The website will be regularly updated with OFSTED follow-up news.

 News from the School Council

 We would like to thank all the children who drew their ideas for a new school logo. We took a long time to decide and we chose four winners who will bring their ideas together to form one logo. Well done Yusef Deveci, Teddie Taylor, Rayyan Hoque and Ellie May Renvoize .

 Half Term Holiday

Please note that we return to school on Tuesday 26th February at the normal time. We hope you all have a good break and look forward to seeingyou all refreshed.

The winning team  for the bead competition this half term was Ghandi (orange). Their prize was an afternoon of team games, food and fun. They only won by 4 beads!