Kimberley Primary
School-"Go On And Learn!"
Kimberley Primary School-"Go On And Learn!"
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GO ON
AND LEARN
Kimberley Primary School
Swingate
Kimberley NG16 2PG
Tel:
0115 938 5050
Fax:
0115 938 5075
email:
office@kimberley-pri.notts.sch.uk
Reception and General Enquiries
Mrs Judith Baker
(School Office Administrator)
Head Teacher
Ms Jennifer Porter
Chair of Governing Body
Ms Alison Gray
You can download the the latest inspection report from the Ofsted website below:
Ofsted full inspection (May 2015)
HMI Monitoring Visit (November 2015).pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [154.0 KB]
A visit to the library....
As well as publishing important updates here, we will also send e-mail and text updates using
ParentMail. Click here if you need to update your contact details.
INSET DAYS 2015-16
As well as the normal school holiday closures, school will be closed for staff training on the following days
next academic year:
Wednesday 2 September 2015
Friday 23 October 2015
Friday 12 February 2016
Monday 20 June 2016
Monday 25 July 2016
For details of 2015/16 term dates and school holidays, click here. School closures (holidays and insets) can
also be found in the School Calendar (marked in red)
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
We are proud to annonce that we have a new Special Educational Needs Policy in line with the new
code. Click here to download the policy.
We have also produced a 'Local Offer' document. Click here for more information.
Marking Guides
This is the guide that we refer to when marking work for the children
marking colour codes.pub
pub File [138.5 KB]
CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE A COPY OF THE POWERPOINT ABOUT THE RESIDENTIAL VISIT TO WALES 2016
Click here to link to the Nottinghamshire County Council website to see if the school is closed due to bad
weather
Kimberley Primary School News 2015-2016
A visit by Anna Soubry MP
Our Junior Leadership team had the opportunity to welcome Anna Soubry MP to our school omn Friday 5th
February. Together, they spent time touring the school and taking part in a question and answer session.
Mrs Soubry was so impressed witht the school and the leadership team, that she has invited us to the
Houses Of Parliament in London for a return visit in the summer term.
Safer Internet Day 2016!
Kimberley Primary School is proud to be joining many other schools and other establishments in celebrating
Safer Internet Day on February 9th 2016. Click here to be taken to the website. We will be marking the
occasion in Tuesday assemblies leading up to the date. There wil be a few challenges for children along the
way. Keep ckecking the news page of the website for more information.
Challenge one, open to all pupils, staff and families:
Write a poem which reminds children about how to play their part in making the internet better. All entries to Ms Porter by
Friday 5th Februay 2016.
Challenge two, open to all pupils, staff and families
Chose what you think your digital rights should be in the 21st century. as an individual and as a family.
Make a poster about them and send them in to school by February 8th 2016
Challenge three, open to all pupils, staff amd families
To share or not to share, that is the question! What information is safe to share on the internet and what is
not safe to share?
Challenge four, open to all pupils, staff and families
What do you want your digital footprint to be?
Here are the conversation openers, about the internet, for families to use at home.
For more information about Safer Internet Day 2016 please link to the safeguarding section of our website
by clicking here.
Acceptance Without Exception
Click here to link through to Wollaton's Class page, where you can learn more about the lessons the children
are taking part in under the title of Different Families, Same Love.
Diversity Champions
Click here to link through to the Stonewall charity Website, giving you more information about the diversity
and equality.
Book Fair 2015
This year our Book Fair was the most successful to date. We made over £700 allowing us to spend £70 on
books for each class to enjoy. Thank you to all who came and supported us. During Book Fair week we held
a competition to win 5 x £5 vouchers to spend on books. The children could draw their favourite book
character, design a book cover or write a book review. Here are the winners with their entries. Well done to
all those who entered.
Book worms!
Each half term, the children with the most reads in each class can select a book of their own choice to take
home. Here are the winners for this half term! ( Autumn 1)
Sherwood Class:
Teagen and Abbie
Clumber Class:
Logan, Amy and Luke
Newstead:
Jacob, Megan and Jack.M
Wollaton:
Lucie, Millie.D and Daniel.F
We are Readers!
Congratulations to all the children that have completed the summer reading challenge!
This year the Kimberley Primary School Staff are looking our for GOAL (Go On And Learn) champions! We
presented our first reading, writing and maths champion certificates to children in assembly on the 11th
September. it was a lovely occasion.
The Year Six children enjoyed their well deserved school sleepover on Friday 19th June 2015. We were glad
that the weather stayed fine. Click here to see just some of the pictures taken during the event.
Sports Day 22 May 2015
We had a wonderful sports day today. The sun shone and the rain stayed away. A big well done to all our
children who gave 100% in every event. The younger childlren worked their way round a circuit of different
sporting challenges in the morning, while the older ones split into 'G O A L' teams and competed in running,
egg & spoon, sack and three-legged races in the afternoon. Well done to team 'O' (pictured) who came first
overall. To finish off, some of the parents, staff and governors got to join in the fun too as they were
chosen by the children to pair up for a three-legged race! Thanks to all the family and friends who cheered
the children on. Click here to see more photos.
Fishing Club
With the warmer weather finally here, some children have been given the chance to go to fishing club with
You Fish!
Click here to see more photos.
Eclipse of the sun 20 March 2015
The opportunity for expereincing a partial eclipse of the sun was too good to miss, so the children of
Kimberley Primary School decided to enjoyed to experience in lots of ways. Some were lucky enough to
watch it for themselves through the correct eye wear and they were amazed at what they saw. Click here to
see more pictures.
We are promoting British Values!
We are excited to share some details of our forthcoming whole school focus on promoting British values and
celebrating difference and diversity.
All of the children in our school will be taking part in lessons covering the British Values of:
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Respecting ourselves and others
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Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
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Individual liberty
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Democracy
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The rule of Law
The first phase of the project will culminate in a parents assembly on 1st May 2015 at 9am and celebrate
non fiction writing which informs us about the children's learning throughout the project.
Click here to read the Agreed Syllabus for RE in Nottinghamshire for 2015-2015 which, on page 20 and 21
outlines how the teaching of RE supports the requirements of the Depertment For Education.
Click here to read our EQUALITY OBJECTIVES 2015
We Are Writers!
We are 'MASTER' Writers!
Bigger writing 2!
Kimberley Primary School are so proud of the efforts that all the children are making in writing. Our 'We are
Writers' projects have really grabbed the imagination of all the pupils and they are determined to make
progress!
We held our BIGGER WRITING 2 event on Friday 27th March. It was lovely to see so many grown ups in
school to support their children with their writing challenge.
Bigger Writing!
We held our first bigger writing event on Friday 13th February
Parents were invited to attend and join in the process of writing with their children.
This is what our parents thought.....
"I thought bigger writing was really good. It was a nice idea to invite parents and carers along. I think it
gives the children a boost.
An enjoyable morning all round.
I will definitely attend the next one"
"I thought the bigger writing event was excellent.
The assembly was fantastic, hearing segments of other children's stories was enlightening."
"I think it is good that parents are invited to these 'bigger writing' events as it helped me understand more."
"Thanks for another informative session. I enjoyed seeing the sorts of activities that strengthen hand
muscles and encourage writing in creative ways."
"I also found the assembly lovely-so nice to see the positive attitudes of the pupils and teaching staff and to
hear what different year groups have been doing."
A pen licence
In a continued effort to drive up the standards in writing, we are working with the children to improve their
handwriting. Once their handwriting meets a set of criteria, they are awarded a pen licence!
The criteria are:
1. Correct letter formation
2. Joined writing with clear ascenders and descenders
3. No scribbling out
4. Tidy, neat pages - no scruffy edges
5. Sitting correctly at the table to write
Sustained success will allow the child to keep their pen!
Handwriting Policy
We have updated the handwriting policy at our school and wanted to share it with you. Click here to go
straight to the policy and examples.
Whole School family learning projects
This year our family learning projects have focussed on a range of chellanges such as:
Poetry
Christmas around The World
World Book day
It was fabulous to see so many children dressed up for World Book Day 2015. Click here to see more
photgraphs of the day.
Team Kimberley are working hard to improve the standards of all our children's writing. One way that we
do this is by rewarding children who make a super effort and as a result make good progress.
Another way that we are improving the standard of writing that all our children are capable of is to make
sure that they all have clear targets for improvement and can tell us when then have achieved their goal.
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