School Planning for Pupils at
Hursthead Junior School
2015-16
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How will Ms Losse and the
Senior leadership team
improve our school?
Ms Losse, Mrs Kendrick, Miss
Walker and Miss Potter make
up the Senior leadership time
with Mrs Proffitt and Mrs
Powell who fulfil the SENCo
role for the school.
Mrs Smith and Mrs
Farnsworth are the school
business managers.
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The senior leaders will
help all staff to teach the
new curriculum to all
children especially those
that sometimes find
learning difficult and
those who are not making
as much progress as we
expect.
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We will do this by making
sure teachers and
teaching assistants get
How will we improve teaching,
learning and assessment in school?
How will we improve your
personal development,
behaviour and welfare so
that you can become better
young people?
What we intend to do
Assessment is all the ways that we
can check your understanding and
find out what you need help with. This
includes the feedback you are given in
class- which might be a conversation and the marking that you are
expected to respond to. Sometimes
there are tests to check your
understanding and see if you are
making good progress.
How will we help you
achieve even more?
Your welfare covers
 You will know that we no
everything to do with your
longer use levels (levels
health and happiness. This
3, 4, 5) to assess where
includes your mental and
you are in your learning.
physical health.
Instead, we are working
 Staff will have up-to-date
to help you meet the
training on how to keep
age related
you safe and this will be
expectations that you
shared with you through
have in the front of
your PSHE curriculum.
your books. You can see
Many of you will also take
your progress towards
 Mrs Kendrick and all your teachers
part in NSPCC workshops
these and they will help
are working to continue to improve
and in Year 5 you will do
you think about what
the opportunities you have for
First Aid training so that
you need to include in
developing your Maths skills. It is
you can help look after
your work.
essential that you have secure
others.
 Teachers are developing
basic skills – like number bonds,
 We are reviewing and
their understanding of
time tables and key facts and that
developing our PSHE
this new system so that
you can use and apply these in lots
curriculum (Personal,
they can gather
of different ways.
Social and Health
evidence to show if you
 All your teachers are working to
Education) so that we can
are meeting these
help you develop a deeper
effectively teach you how
expectations in all
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understanding of the curriculum
to look after yourselves
subjects.
and lots of different activities so
and others. Mrs Proffitt
 We are planning on
good training and support
both in school and by going
to courses to share with
each other.
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that you can show what you have
has been talking to
learnt.
children and staff about
 Miss Dorsett and all your teachers
this. This includes learning
are focussing on Science teaching
about health and
and how we can teach you to work
wellbeing, relationships
We will also use lots of
scientifically. We are also thinking
and being a responsible
different ways to help you
about how we can check your
citizen. This covers
get the most out of your
understanding in Science. We want
everything from keeping
learning. You will see
to involve parents who work with
yourself safe on the
classes using learning
Science in talking to you about
internet to our respecting
partners more and
their work and the jobs you might
the rights of others
children developing the
be able to do. We are working
locally and globally
skills to be better
towards renewing the Primary
through using the UNCRC.
learners. Teachers will be
Science Quality Mark (gold level).  We will continue to
checking what children
You can look forward to a whole
develop our restorative
have understood and what
school Science challenge in the
work. You will remember
they have not yet
Spring term.
that we had a visitor in
understood all the time.
 Miss Trowse is helping us improve
assembly to talk about
We will check and monitor
our environmental awareness both
this and there is
all the small groups that
in our curriculum and around
information on the
are happening in school e.g.
school. We believe environmental
noticeboard outside Mr
Motor Skills, Rapid Read,
themes such as ‘What a load of
Foden’s room. Now that all
Maths groups, phonic
rubbish?’ and Fair Trade are really
the staff are trained in
groups etc. to make sure
important. Our Eco Warriors are
this, we want to train
that they are helping
monitoring our energy use and our
some of you to be
children to progress.
recycling and we are holding school
Restorative Approaches
When children do progress
and community gardening events.
(RA) ambassadors so that
they will not need this
The Eco Warriors are applying for
you can help other
‘boost’ anymore but other
the Green Flag Award.
children resolve conflict.
children may need the
 Your teachers are getting training  We want to help you
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putting together some
examples of work that
meet this standard to
help your teachers make
decisions about each
individual pupil’s
achievement.
We are making sure
that any small groups
help you to make
progress towards these
expectations for the
end of each year.
We are thinking about
how we can set targets
that will challenge and
support you in making
good progress.
We are making sure
that we have a good
system to record your
achievements so that
we can track if you are
making good progress
and put support in place
if you are not.
Your teachers assess
your progress after 10,
20 and 30 weeks at
school every year. They
support instead.
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so that they can teach you new
develop the skills to be
skills in Computing e.g. coding. Miss
good learners and be able
All the teachers are
Potter is coordinating this and
to get along with others.
responsible for an area of
sharing her training with other
Forest Schools will help
the curriculum e.g.
teachers. We are looking at what
children in year 5 to be
History, geography,
IT equipment we need in school.
more resilient, to
Science. Senior leaders
We are working towards renewing
collaborate, persevere and
will support these subject
our ICT mark award.
cooperate. We think these
leaders to monitor and
are vital skills for life. You
develop their subject, give  Your teachers are working
together to share their best
can help by engaging fully
information and feedback
ideas and support each other to
in lessons and thinking
to other teachers.
become even better teachers.
about your needs and the
Senior leaders will
Every term, the teachers in each
needs of others as
continue to develop the
year group meet to talk about the
learners.
role of the Family Leaders
progress you are making. They
 We will continue to give
so that you are more
also come into lessons to share
you good feedback about
involved in helping the
brilliant ideas and see how you
your work and we expect
school to improve.
learn. Ms Losse and Mrs Kendrick
you to respond to it to
do this too. We may talk to you
help you move on in your
You may see more trainee
about your work or even film
learning. Sometimes this
teachers in school next
what you are doing on our Ipads
will be ‘tickled pink and
year. We are working with
so that we can help you and your
green for growth’ and
a group of schools to help
teachers improve. We also work
other times it may be a
train new teachers with
with other schools, the local
conversation with a
Manchester University.
authority and Manchester
teacher or teaching
We think it is really
University to share what works
assistant.
important to train the
really well at Hursthead Juniors
 In our curriculum, we will
teachers of the future
and find out what we can learn
continue to provide you
with your help. Miss
from others.
with opportunities to
Walker is responsible for
reflect on and evaluate
these trainees and for new  We think of EVERYONE as being a
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will inform your parents
of this through your
Parents’ Evenings and
the School Report in
the Summer. We will
explain this new system
to your parents.
teachers.
Our Money:
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Miss Losse, Mrs Smith and
Mrs Farnsworth will make
sure that we spend our
money very carefully and
wisely.
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We will tell our Governors
regularly about how we are
spending money and why.
learner and encourage teachers,
teaching assistants and children to
support each other in becoming
even better learners.
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your learning and we will
encourage you to work
with independence.
We will continue to
promote good learning
behaviours and use the
traffic light system to
encourage this. You can
help by demonstrating
these behaviours around
school and by being a good
role model for others,
remembering that both in
and out of school, you
represent Hursthead
Juniors at all times.
How will school and home work together to
support you?
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How will we develop the school and The How will our school building and grounds
Kirkstead Education Trust in the
be improved?
future?
What we intend to do
We want to link with your parents more
The school has been an academy since
regularly through the VLE and website.
June 2014. This means that it is no
Make sure you give them the password that
longer under the control of the local
is in your homework diary and use the VLE
authority. Instead, the school is run by
yourself. Don’t forget to use Mathletics!
The Directors of The Kirkstead
We would like to film some of you
Education Trust. The Governing Body
demonstrating some of the key Maths
are still responsible for the school and
methods and other skills you have learnt.
they hand over the day-to-day running
If we put these on the VLE, you could
of the school to the Head Teacher.
refer to them out of school.
The Governing Body must report to
We have already updated the website and
The Directors. Of course, we continue
there is lots of useful information for you
to work very closely with our local
and your parents on it including a calendar
authority, which is Stockport.
of events.
We are giving your parents more
 The directors, governors and staff of
opportunities to look at your work when
the school have talked a lot about the
they come to Parents’ Evenings.
vision and values of the school and what
We are listening to what your parents say
we want for the children of Hursthead
and providing workshops to give them
Juniors now and in the future. You have
information. These will include sessions
also been involved in this work through
about the new Maths Curriculum and about
the Family Meetings and the acronyms
how to help you keep safe when using the
you came up with. All this will
internet.
contribute to a vision and values
document and poster, which will be
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displayed around school.
We have to be very careful about how we
use the school money and we look for ways
to both save and raise money. We are
always looking for ways to access
grants to improve the school. A grant is a
sum of money that is awarded for a
specific project. Last year, the school had
a grant to improve the kitchen and the
external fabric of the school.
 We will apply for this grant again to
improve the old heaters that are in the
classrooms. This will save money as we
won’t need to keep repairing them.
 We would like to use funds raised by
the PA to buy a new, safer stage for
your performances and concerts
 We would like to investigate making the
school even safer by having a higher
fence and a new gate. We might think
about planting around the edge of the
field to secure the perimeter further.
If possible, we would like to make
improvements to the car park.
 In the future, we would like to consider
having a special space for music lessons
and for art lessons.