Whole school

Easter Egg Competition

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The children were challenged to design and make an egg scene and/or person. The competition was judged by our Chair of Governors, Mrs Gill, and Easter egg prizes were awarded for the best ideas in each class. The Winners were as follows:

Class 1
1st – One DirEGGtion
Runners up – Magic Tomb and Glen the Goldfish

Class 2
1st – Neil Egg-Strong
Runners up – Captain Eggman and Horrid Henry

Class 3
1st – Egg-lection of Pope Fran-chick!
Runners up – The Very Greedy Spider and Easter Chicks

Ofsted ‘PARENT VIEW’ website

Parent View is a website (www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk) that gives you the chance to tell Ofsted what you think about your child’s school. Parent View asks for your opinions on 12 aspects of your child’s school, from the quality of teaching, to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour. There needs to be a minimum number of responses before any results are made public and displayed on the website. Inspectors will consider Parent View when making inspection judgements. We could receive an Ofsted inspection at any time and it would be great, if those of you who would like to, or have already given, positive feedback to us in person about the school and activities etc, would take a few moments to complete the survey on the website. It is designed so that there can only be one response from a particular e mail address. (Details available on the web site)

As stated on the website, this survey is not designed to receive complaints about schools and schools can raise concerns with Ofsted about Parent View if someone posts something inappropriate. If you have any concerns or worries about your child or about the school then, as usual, please come into school and talk to us so we can work together to sort things out. In the first instance you should speak to your child’s teacher and head teacher.

Please see separate letter sent out Friday 8th February for further details.

We are a top performing school!

Praise for Stretton Handley CE Primary School from the Minister of State for Schools

Dear Parents, Governors and Children,

I am delighted to inform you that at the end of term I received a letter from Rt Hon David Laws MP, Minister of State for Schools praising the

“…excellent performance of the pupils in the 2012 national Key Stage tests as published on the 13th December 2012.”

The letter goes on to say –

 “The overall percentage of your pupils achieving Level 4+, combined with excellent rates of progress in both English and mathematics place you amongst the top performing primary schools this year…..

I would like to congratulate, your staff, governors and pupils for their hard work and success, and to thank you for your leadership in continuing the drive towards the highest standards of educational achievement.”

As I am sure you will agree, this is fantastic recognition for all the hard work and effort of everyone involved in the life of the school. I look forward to continuing to work in partnership with all of you to ensure that all the children get the best possible start at Stretton Handley Church of England Primary School so they are prepared for the next stage of their education and for their future success.