MPS Gov Report Spring 2015

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Head Teachers Report to the

Governors Spring 2015

ContentsGovernors Briefing Sheet 3 Introduction 7 School Roll 7 School Dinners 9 Staffing 11 Staffing for 2014-2015 11 Staffing Changes 11 Leaders 11 Staffing Absences: Sickness 13 Staffing Absences: Dependency 13 Staffing Absences: Medical Appointments 14 Staffing Absences: Unpaid Leave / Bereavement / Special Leave 14 Pupil Progress and Achievements 14 Summary of EYFS Results 2014 14 Summary of KS1 Results 2014 14 Summary of KS2 Results 2014 14 Whole School Attendance 15 Attendance for Autumn 2 Term 2014 15 Attendance for Spring 1 Term 2015 16 Incidents of Discrimination 16 Exclusions from school 17 Internal Exclusions 17 School Development Plan 2014-2015 17 Extended School by Stella Linares and Jake Taylor 18 Breakfast Club by Stella Linares 18 After School Clubs by Stella Linares 18 Parent Support Workshops by Stella Linares 19 Melcombe University By Jake Taylor 19 Winter and Summer Fair by Jake Taylor 19 Workforce by Wayne Leeming 20 SPAG by Carol Campbell 20 Technology by Wayne Leeming 20 New Curriculum by Natasha Myrtil 21 Community Links by Wayne Leeming and Jenny Cox 21 Attendance by Carol Campbell 22 Teaching and Learning 23 Teaching & Learning by Alison Bridges 23 Continued Professional Development by Wayne Leeming 23 Middle Leader Programme by Fiona Tyler 23 Pupil Premium by Roz Hemingway 24 Early Years Foundation Stage by Wendy Dormer 24 PSHE by Carol Campbell 25 SEN by Jenny Cox 25 Student Voice 25 Healthy Schools (Main School) by Wayne Leeming 27 Healthy Schools (EYFS) by Samina Kabir 27 Forest School by Rhiannon Everson 28 Sports Premium by Jake Taylor 28 Melcombe Childrens Centre by Wendy Dormer 30 Safeguarding by Jenny Cox 30 School Strengths & Areas to Develop 31 Whats new? 32 ICT Technician 32

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Governors Briefing Sheet

School Numbers School roll continues to climb. Currently at 418

School Dinners There has been a change of about 10 children moving from receiving free school meals to bringing in a packed lunch.

There are currently 11 children eating at home.Staffing No changes since the last report

Leadership No changes since the last report

Staff Absences Sickness was at its height in January with 72 staff off. Dependency remains low. Medical remains low. Other was higher because of bereavements.

Pupil Progress No changes since the last report

School Attendance In Autumn 2 2014 the average attendance was 95.1% In Spring 1 2015 the average attendance was 95.5%

Exclusions Incidents of discrimination: 2 racist incidents Exclusions from class: 3 days Exclusions from school: 0.5 day

SDP: Extended School

Breakfast Club has 26 children and 3 adults supervising. There are now 28 clubs in the school, mostly run by Elite Sports

Agency. Sports Premium money is being used to cover 25 subsidised

spaces. No Parent Support Workshops took place this term. Melcombe University continued in the Spring Term. The Winter Fair made a profit of over 600 The Summer Fair will take place on a Friday after school this

year.SDP: Workforce School will be fully staffed in September 2015 with existing staff.

Nine temporary contracts are coming to an end in July 2015.SDP: SPAG New resources for testing have been ordered.

Staff are attending Staff Meetings to update the SPAG teachingSDP: Technology New photocopiers are in and working

New ICT Technician in place Waiting to order new hardware


New Curriculum New Topic and Science units are being covered. The structure of the Literacy lesson week has been

reorganised to accommodate topic. Curriculum audits being carried out to update the curriculum for

Sept 2015. Curriculum maps are on the school website. New assessment formats are being looked at for after levelling

to begin in Sept 2015.Community Links Melcombe continues to have a variety of secure community links

with local businesses and schools: Albert & Friends CAA Beanstalk Readers ancestory.co.uk Waitrose Bute House School

Attendance Attendance is 95.3% (including Nursery) The highest absences were in 2R, 3M and 5T Localities attended the termly meeting with the school and other

outside agencies to discuss strategies for poor attenders. Nine parents have had meetings about attendance, four were

offered to the school nurse and two to Family SupportTeaching & Learning

All staff had lesson observations in Spring 1 Science and Topic books were monitored in the Spring term. Joint monitoring with all of the SLT and the SIP will take place in

Spring 2.CPD Teaching staff had INSET on EAL resources

Support staff received Level 2 Safeguarding training 25 members of staff went on courses off-site.

Middle Leaders Middle leaders are currently auditing their subjects against the new curriculum.

Release has continued but the format will change next term and be according to the schools needs.

Middle leaders have been involved in book looks, ensuring consistency of practice.

Pupil Premium More ICT resources have been bought. In KS1, 82% of children are online to reach their targets in

reading, writing and numeracy of which 41% have already reached or exceeded their targets.

In KS2, 65% of children are online to reach their targets in reading, writing and numeracy of which 19% have already reached or exceeded their targets.


EYFS Reception have had a number of visits from outside groups. Nursery have been involved in drama groups, cooking, Forest

School and have planted potatoes. Nursery will be full in April 2015. Nursery pupil premium is about to be implemented. S&L remains an issue in Nursery. Reception and Nursery hosted student teachers.

PSHE The Values Education is now outdated and we are currently exploring a better PSHE scheme of work which will come in to effect from September 2015.

SEN 13 children have statements. Over 100 students have been identified as having SEN. EHP appear to be harder to obtain than statements were. Our EP is going on maternity leave and is being replaced by

Rebecca BlamireStudent Voice Eco Warriors have been working with the Urban Studies Centre

to save energy. Enterprisers continued to run their Stationery Shop selling their

products every half term and making a profit. Fairtraders held a fair-trade bake-off and children completed a

fairtrade research project. International Ambassadors are working with Global

Ambassadors (to educate children on volunteering) and Just Enough UK (to fight modern slavery).

Junior Road Safety Officers took part in the Big Pedal Competition and are about to begin Walk to School Wednesdays.

Mediators continue to support the prefects and work in the playground ensuring that children get along.

Prefects have been involved in making decisions about regulating themselves.

Rights Respecters took part in WE Day, funded by the mayor of London, which encouraged children to take part in change.

Healthy Schools Main School: we are currently working towards our Silver Award which will be evaluated in July 2015

EYFS: Children are taking part in potato watch, Fatooms Kitchen with the Childrens Centre and Forest School.

Forest School Sessions, focuses and groupings have changed this term. There is a noticeable improvement in confidence and

responsibility in the groups.Sports Premium Introduction of new sports such as fencing, archery during Sports

Week. New scheme of work and INSET from coaches to support staff. Subsidise children in taking part in clubs. Hold a proper school sports day.


Childrens Centre New deputy is in place. The 90% target for reach has been achieved. MCC won an award for their promotion of Vitamin C. Family support cases are increasing. A new SLA is currently being agreed.

Safeguarding Learning Mentor continues to manage most of the classified cases.

Wayne and Jenny are the named contacts for MASH Teaching staff received training in Mental Health Michelle Journet has completed her course as an ELSA

Strengths See list

Areas to Develop See list

Whats New? We have a permanent ICT Technician


Introduction

The purpose of this report is to inform governors of: General information about the school, including information about school roll, organisation of classes and staffing in the school. Pupil progress and achievements. Update on the Schools Development Plan and the quality of the provision within the school. Current and future events happening at the school. Information about premises and finance are fed back to governors through the minutes of those meetings. All governors should receive the schools weekly letter, which keeps governors updated on the weekly events within the school.

School Roll

School Roll for school year 2011/2012



AUTUMN 2011

SPRING2012

SUMMER2012

Number of pupils in the main school

301 317 301

Full-time Nursery Pupils 40 40 40

Part-time Nursery Pupils 17 15 17

Total Roll 358 372 370

AUTUMN 2012

SPRING 2013

SUMMER2013


317 300 293






The school is now 86.2% full with 419 children enrolled and 58 places remaining spread across the classes.

AUTUMN2013

SPRING2014

SUMMER2014


315 333 345




AUTUMN 2014

SPRING 2015

SUMMER2015


356 362

Full-time Nursery Pupils 39 42

Part-time Nursery Pupils 4 15

Total Roll 399 419


Melcombe School Roll

School Dinners

Dinners for school year 2011/2012



AUTUMN 2011

SPRING2012

SUMMER2012

Number of pupils paying for school dinners

88 111 111

Number of pupils on free school dinners

139 159 157

Number of pupils on packed lunch 121 91 91

School dinner debt 1450 no info available

no info available

AUTUMN 2012

SPRING 2013

SUMMER2013


85 111 106


181 159 124


School dinner debt no info available

no info available

no info available

AUTUMN2013

SPRING2014

SUMMER2014


121 159 156


106 93 96


Eating at home 10

School dinner debtSchool dinner credit

272.70(cr 2346.61)

196.90(cr 2417.96)

247.152444.41



AUTUMN2014

SPRING2015

SUMMER2015


102 103

Number of pupils on free school dinners made up of:Years Nursery, 4-6Year 1&2 (should be free)Years 1&2 (should be paying)

212

56 30126

204

4630

128Number of pupils on packed lunch 80 100

Eating at home 4 11.00

School dinner debtSchool dinner credit

127.801770.75

205.201934.10


Packed Lunch School Dinners

Staffing

Staffing for 2014-2015

Changes are highlighted in blue.

Staffing Changes

The following changes in staffing have taken place since the last report: Ms Natasha Myrtil and Ms Alison Bridges have returned from their maternity leave. Ms Yashan Dalhiwal will be returning from her maternity leave in May.

Leaders

Changes are highlighted in blue

Nursery Ms Wendy Dormer Ms Samina Kabir

Reception Ms Liberty Allen Ms Jemma Elson

Year 1 Ms Julie Frost Ms Rhiannon Everson

Year 2 Ms Stella Linares Ms Gemma Ririe

Year 3 Ms Kulsoom Saghir Ms Kate McKerrow

Year 4 Ms Robyn Pearce Mr Sam Cracknell

Year 5 Ms Fiona Tyler Mr Jake Taylor

Year 6 Ms Amber Roberts Mr Martin Stevenson

POSITION NAMEDeputy Head Teacher Carol Campbell

Curriculum Natasha Myrtil

Pastoral Carol Campbell

Assessment Wayne Leeming

Teaching & Learning Alison Bridges

Childrens Centre Wendy Dormer

Extended School Stella Linares Jake Taylor

Early Years Foundation Stage Wendy Dormer

Lower Phase Julie Frost


Upper Phase Natasha Myrtil

Inclusion Jenny Cox

Middle Leaders Fiona Tyler

EAL & Pupil Premium Ros Hemingway

Literacy Carol Campbell

Literacy - Reading, Spelling and Phonics Julie Frost

MFL Stella Linares

Numeracy Gemma Ririe

Science Kate Mckerrow

ICT Florence Bance

Humanities (Geography) Humanities (History)

Amber Roberts Martin Stevenson

Art Robyn Pearce

Music Jemma Elson

RE Liberty Allen

PE Jake Taylor

D&T Vacant

Forest School Rhiannon Everson

Steps Reading Scheme Carol Campbell

Blocks Mental Maths Scheme Kulsoom Saghir

Fairtrade Gwen Cummins

Eco Warriors Jenny Cox

International Ambassadors Wayne Leeming

Enterprisers Robyn Pearce

Rights Respectors Carol Campbell

JRSO Kim Murray

Mediators Jacqueline Parram

POSITION NAME


There is currently a vacancy for D&T

Staffing Absences: Sickness

Staffing Absences: Dependency

School Council Wayne Leeming

POSITION NAME

Sep 12

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22 40 11 20 40 31 62 22 14 11 7 22

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67 88 95 55 54 55 79.5 47 63 53 22 0

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33 60 41 55 72 42

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8 14 7 4 9 9 3 3 8 6 7 0

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3 4 6 0 4 3 7.5 1 5 2 3 0


Sickness

Staffing Absences: Medical Appointments

Staffing Absences: Unpaid Leave / Bereavement / Special Leave

Pupil Progress and Achievements

Summary of EYFS Results 2014

Summary of KS1 Results 2014

Summary of KS2 Results 2014

Sep 14

Oct 14

Nov 14

Dec 15

Jan 15

Feb 15

Mar 15

Apr 15

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Jul 15

Aug 15

2 4 2 2 7 4

Sep 12

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0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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0 0 3 0 1.5 4 2 2 2 2 0 0

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0.5 1.5 1 2 1 1

Sep 12

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3 2 0 23 6 5 3 17 1 16 4 0

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11 4 10 5 2 0 3 15 5 6 1 0

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0 0 14 2 3 1


Whole School Attendance

Attendance for Autumn 2 Term 2014

Group Presents AEA Authorised AbsencesUnauthorised

Absences Possible % Attend

RECEPTION A

94.8 1.4 3.8 0.0 100.0 96.3

RECEPTION E

93.2 1.6 5.2 0.0 100.0 94.8

Y1F 94.5 0.0 4.5 1.0 100.0 94.5

Y1E 95.0 1.4 2.5 1.0 100.0 96.5

Y2L 95.4 0.1 4.1 0.5 100.0 95.4

Y2R 94.2 0.1 5.6 0.1 100.0 94.3

Y3S 95.0 1.4 2.4 1.1 100.0 96.4

Y3M 92.5 1.5 4.9 1.1 100.0 94.1

Y4P 95.6 0.2 3.4 0.8 100.0 95.8

Y4O 92.3 0.2 4.5 2.9 100.0 92.6

Y5J 91.5 2.7 4.5 1.3 100.0 94.2

Y5T 94.0 2.9 2.6 0.5 100.0 96.9

Y6R 94.0 0.3 5.4 0.4 100.0 94.3

Y6S 88.2 7.1 3.5 1.2 100.0 95.3

Totals 93.6 1.5 4.0 0.8 100.0 95.1


Attendance for Spring 1 Term 2015

Incidents of Discrimination

Group Presents AEA Authorised AbsencesUnauthorised

Absences Possible % Attend

RECEPTION A

94.5 1.7 3.8 0.0 100.0 96.2

RECEPTION E

94.2 1.8 3.8 0.1 100.0 96.1

Y1F 96.0 0.0 2.5 1.6 100.0 96.0

Y1E 96.3 0.0 2.5 1.1 100.0 96.3

Y2L 95.9 0.0 3.8 0.3 100.0 95.9

Y2R 93.3 0.0 6.3 0.4 100.0 93.3

Y3S 95.7 1.7 2.0 0.6 100.0 97.4

Y3M 91.6 1.9 5.8 0.7 100.0 93.5

Y4P 94.4 1.6 2.7 1.2 100.0 96.1

Y4O 92.5 1.6 3.8 2.1 100.0 94.1

Y5J 95.5 0.3 3.8 0.4 100.0 95.8

Y5T 94.0 0.0 5.5 0.4 100.0 94.0

Y6R 95.7 0.3 3.5 0.5 100.0 96.1

Y6S 95.0 0.2 4.1 0.6 100.0 95.2

Totals 94.7 0.8 3.8 0.7 100.0 95.5

DURATION NUMBER

Autumn Term 2013 2 x racist incidents (same child)

Spring Term 2014 4 x racist incidents

Summer Term 2014 3 x racist incidents2 x homophobic incidents (same child)

Autumn Term 2014 1 x racist incident

Spring Term 2015 2 x racist incidents


Exclusions from school

Internal Exclusions

School Development Plan 2014-2015

Our Aim: To motivate, challenge and inspire the children, so that they are actively involved in their learning, see the value and purpose of their learning and have a strong sense of belief, that they can and will be successful learners. We want success for all!

Our Vision: The school is currently regarded by Ofsted as being outstanding. Numbers are rising but as yet we are not oversubscribed. We are regarded favourably by parents and the immediate community.

In three years time our vision is to be an oversubscribed 2-form entry school with wrap around care from 8am 5:00pm with a highly qualified, stable staff providing first class opportunities for all pupils to meet their potential.

To help achieve this vision we will: Provide a happy, safe and secure environment in which every child is valued as an

individual and can succeed. Build a community based on the home/school agreement in which all are involved in

fostering attitudes to care, tolerance and understanding. Help all children to build on their previous experience and acquire further skills and

knowledge which they will need for their future learning and life.

DURATION NUMBER

Autumn Term 2013 1 x 2-day fixed term exclusionSpring Term 2014 0Summer Term 2014 1 x 2-day fixed term exclusionAutumn Term 2014 0Spring Term 2015 1 x 0.5-day fixed term exclusion

DURATION NUMBER

Autumn Term 2013 2 x 1 day internal exclusion (same child)

Spring Term 2014 1 x 1-day internal exclusion

Summer Term 2014 4 x 1.5-day internal exclusions

Autumn 2014 3 x 1 day internal exclusions

Spring Term 2015 3 x 1 day internal exclusions


Provide equal opportunities for each child to develop independence and responsibility for themselves, other people and the environment within the school and the local and wider community.

Make the most of every opportunity, both in and out of school, and develop an I can do attitude and love of learning.

Extended School by Stella Linares and Jake Taylor

The extended services program this term consists of 4 main strands: Breakfast Club, After School Clubs, Parent Support Workshops and Melcombe University. Extended day also includes the organization, set up and running of the winter and summer fairs. There will also be various fundraising activities to improve the schools playground throughout the year organized in collaboration with the schools Parent Reps.

Breakfast Club by Stella Linares

Breakfast clubs runs from 8.00am 8.50am every weekday morning before the school day begins. Children pay 3 per day and are served a choice of cereal or toast with a drink. The children then engage in a range of social activities together. Children in the club range from Year 1 to Year 6. They do not attend every day, but are registered to come on identified days. There are currently 26 children on the list. From September 2014, the Children's Centre began providing Breakfast Club for children in Nursery and Reception, which has freed up more spaces for Children from Year 1 up. There are 3 members of staff who supervise Breakfast Club at a ratio of 1 adult to every 10 children.

After School Clubs by Stella Linares

After school clubs run from 3.15pm 4.15pm everyday after school. All classroom-based clubs are run by support staff, at a ratio of 1 adult to every 15 children. Elite Sports Agency runs all sports coaching clubs at a ratio of 1 adult to every 20 children. Reflect Productions continue to run Drama and Martial Arts at a ratio of 1 adult to every 16 children. Zumba will now be run by a parent in the school who is a professionally trained instructor and has kindly chosen to donate all of the money to the improvement of the school playground.

In the Autumn Term there were 25 different clubs that offered spaces to children from Reception to Year 6. Due to the school increasing in size and ever-growing demand for wrap around care, the school will now offer 28 clubs. Children will now sign up one half

School Development Priorities

Extended Day - To establish and then maintain a series of breakfast clubs and after-school clubs to ensure that the school can be considered to be a 8.30am to 5pm school.Workforce - To ensure that the school's workforce remains efficient and cost effective.

SPAG - To raise the profile of Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar at the school and ensure our results are in-line with other subjects.Technology - To ensure that the school is equipped with efficient and working technology for both teaching and learning.


term prior to clubs beginning and from January 2014, parents have been asked to pay in full to secure their childrens places. This is to ensure all children take up their spaces and avoid other children missing out.

The skills to be covered in the clubs are identified in advance. These skills are assessed at the start of the term and then again at the end of the term in order to track progress. Children also complete an evaluation form at the end of the 10 weeks to say what they have learnt, what they have enjoyed and how they can apply those skills in other areas. We have also entered into football matches with the Melcombe Football Team for both boys and girls. To cover sport premium the extended day leaders have offered 25 subsidized spaces to less advantaged children to take part in sports coaching outside of school. Both parents and children have benefitted from this opportunity and commented on the advantages.

Parent Support Workshops by Stella Linares

Over the course of this academic year we will provide Steps and Blocks Workshops for parents of children in Reception to Year 5. These will be held to support parents in helping their children at home to develop reading and mental maths skills. The leaders of these areas have not yet had the chance to run these workshops. We will also be running a transition workshop for parents of children in Reception, specifically focusing on the phonics used in Year One, in preparation for the phonics testing that the children will undertake at the end of Year One.

Melcombe University By Jake Taylor

Every Friday afternoon, Reception to Year 2 and Year 3 to Year 6 meet in the hall and children are split into workshops that they have signed up to at the start of the term. There are currently 19 workshops running and these are led by teachers or support staff. The sessions are planned in advance and skills to be covered are identified. These skills are assessed at the start of the term and then again at the end of the term in order to track progress. At the end of the term, children are awarded with a diploma in their chosen subject.

Winter and Summer Fair by Jake Taylor

The Winter Fair was deemed a huge success. The parent representatives, in coordination with the Extended Day Leaders, largely ran the fair. This was extremely successful approach as it gave parents a sense of ownership and allowed them to contribute to themselves to the school. We were able to supply a range of activities across the evening to celebrate the holiday season. The Winter Fair raised a profit of over 600, which will go towards the playground resurfacing.

The Summer Fair will take place in the Summer 2 and will be slightly earlier than previous years to avoid a clash with Ramadan. This will allow the majority of the school community to be able to enjoy the event. The Parent Representatives will be largely responsible for the event and will liaise with the extended day leaders during weekly meetings and running up to the event. We have decided to move the fair to a Friday afternoon instead of a Saturday, as we believe this will draw more people from the school. Again, all profits will go towards the resurfacing of the playground.


There is a very small group of parents loosely involved in the setting up of the Summer Fair this year. 3 support staff and myself have predominantly organised it. This needs to be addressed next year in order to give parents more ownership. We have kept several contacts from last year including the local press, The Fire Brigade and Flam FC and we have gained even more, so the fair looks to be bigger and better than before. We are also using the money from last years Fair to purchase the necessary equipment (such as BBQs and gazebos) so that we have our own set of resources rather than borrowing from other local schools. The fair will be held on 12th July 12-3pm 2014

Workforce by Wayne Leeming

The teaching staff currently has no changes and there are no changes in leadership positions from the previous report. At present the school will be fully staffed with existing staff members in September 2015.

There are 9 temporary contracts which are coming to an end because of a lack of need (the jobs are no longer required) and / or a lack of funding. For example staff who supported pupils who are now in Year 6 and will be leaving at the end of the school year. The Head Teacher has met with these 9 members of staff and informed them of this position. These will cease and will take effect in July 2015.

With two senior staff members looking to further reduce the number of days they work at the school, we have had to put plans in to place for succession and this has been budgeted for in the new school financial year.

SPAG by Carol Campbell

In order to make sure we are well prepared, I have ordered new resources, including testing, for all year groups and I am working with Natasha and Alison to ensure that these can be incorporated into our curriculum as smoothly as possible. The fact that we already have an excellent legacy of literacy teaching and learning should ensure that the new Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Curriculum will enhance childrens current learning in this area.

To help the transition for teachers, there will be a Staff Meeting to introduce the new Spag criteria this week (1st April).

Technology by Wayne Leeming

The new photocopiers are finally installed and running. This has meant that staff can now be more optimistic about being able to photocopy and have a better chance of the machine working. All teaching staff have been given a number to use when logging in to the photocopiers which means that we can now track the use of the photocopier. There have been a small number of issues but these were addressed immediately by the photocopier company.

The current ICT Technician reduced the number of hours he worked at the school from 2.5 days to 0.5 days. This meant that a lot of work built up and that the school was falling behind in certain instances where something broke and was in a queue to be fixed. It was then decided to employ an ICT Technician from Reed for 5 days to work with the current


ICT Technician with the view to him taking over the role at a later date. The new ICT Technician is in place and has been reducing the number of outstanding jobs every day.

Staff trying to teach ICT the curriculum subject are still experiencing difficulties because of the lack of hardware but the purchase of this has been agreed by the governors and the money ring fenced for the next financial year. The equipment will be ordered and installed as soon as the new budget is agreed.

New Curriculum by Natasha Myrtil

Teachers are now delivering the new topic and science units, in line with the new national curriculum. In general, teachers are doing a good job of planning and delivering these new topics. Next year, the focus will be on providing more depth in some of these topics and ensuring that trips and first hand experiences are booked in advance. Literacy and reading units are constantly being updated, so the content reflects the new topic units. The structure of literacy lessons, has been reorganised, so teachers can fit in the new SPaG and spellings.

Audits are now being done, with a focus on the foundation subjects, with a view to updating some of these for September. Curriculum maps for the school website have been updated and now reflect the curriculum changes.

We are currently looking into new assessment formats, as the use of levels will be phased out, in line with the new assessment criteria. We are aiming to begin our new assessment formats in September.

Community Links by Wayne Leeming and Jenny Cox

Melcombe continues to have a variety of secure community links with local businesses. Year 3 children gain immense pleasure as well as acquiring a wide range of skills from

the weekly sessions with Albert and Friends. Children in year 1&2 have benefitted from having dedicated reading partners from CAA. When the Harper Collins volunteers left at Christmas the children helped Julie Frost

organised a special tea party to say a BIG Thank you for all of the help and books they have donated over the 12 years they have been associated with us.

Beanstalk readers continue to support children in years 2 & 5 with their reading as well as helping with other social aspects of school life.

Ancestry.co.uk continue to supplement the funding for breakfast club and came to visit the children to talk to them and see how they appreciated the games/resources that they had provided.

Jake Taylor has developed a link with Waitrose in Fulham Palace Road and they have donated bread rolls etc for various social events.

We have developed very close links with Bute House In January 2015 they gave us a set of 30 laptops (about a year or two old) as ours were

finished and we were looking to buy a new set. They have sent their specialist Music teacher to help with our Year 6 choir. He comes

down for a 30-minute session every week and works with our staff. The other two things are in the pipe-line and we haven't acted upon them yet but we do

have plans to use their laboratory for Science and we have plans to set up inter-school sports.


Attendance by Carol Campbell

Attendance for Spring term is 95.3% including Nursery.

Authorised absences these have been due mostly to illness, for example, vomiting, diarrhoea, with high temperatures.There was a higher percentage of absence for the following classes:2R - includes high levels of sickness bug going round; funeral of close family member abroad; official appointments abroad where children need to attend (we have documents to support these absences). One child with poor attendance has since been relocated out of Hammersmith and has changed school.3M - includes a pupil who remained abroad for additional 7 days because a parent was ill over Christmas period; illness for a pupil who has since been referred to Localities and a pupil who has left the area and has changed school as a result.5T - includes a child who had to attend a case abroad for parental rites; he had to be present and was therefore absent for 2 weeks) and illness for two pupils, for which we have medical proof.

Unauthorised absences1F One child returned 5 days late to school after the holidays; a warning letter was given. One pupil has been referred to Localities for support.

1E One child returned 5 days late to school; warning letter given. One pupil with 4 days unauthorised return from holiday - warning given; will be fined next time.4P One child referred to Localities re: lateness and lack of communication with the school4C One child with sick parent and as a consequence was unable to attend. She has now left the school. Details of absence sent to new school to advise them of past history. Finally, one child referred to Localities for support as lateness and absence is persistent.At a termly Attendance Meeting with myself, Jenny Cox, Emma, the School Nurse and Phoebe, our Attendance Officer, we discussed strategies for support that we could use with specific pupils with poor attendance and frequent lateness; alongside Mike Saunders from Localities, which made it easier for us to join up the type of support needed needed, ie, Medical, Special Needs, or Localities.

As a result of lateness and attendance issues, I have met and agreed targets with nine parents regarding attendance and/or punctuality and as a result have referred four to Emma, the School Nurse and two to Localities for Family Support. All targets set with parents will be reviewed at meetings with them mid way through Summer 1 Term.


Teaching and Learning

Teaching & Learning by Alison Bridges

In the first half of this school year, teachers have had formal observations by SLT and informal observations by middle leaders. The outcome of these observations has been very positive, with the teaching and learning, in all classes, being considered good or outstanding. The teaching and learning leader and phase leaders, are providing support and modeling good practice for new teachers, to ensure their teaching is of a high standard and in line with the Melcombe model.

The SLT have also monitored literacy, maths, science and topic books, again giving an overall positive picture of teaching and learning at Melcombe.

In literacy, there was clear evidence of skills being taught and of children applying skills in their weekly extended writing tasks. Written work has been moderated by all teaching staff, so that judgements being made are consistent.

In maths, there was also clear evidence of skills being taught and applied and of children progressing across year groups.

In science, teachers are now delivery the new units, in line with the new national curriculum and the standard of work is generally good, with children having lots of opportunities to do investigations and practise SC1 skills.

The topic books show that teachers are also now delivering the new history and geography units and children are gaining lots of historical and geographical knowledge, but there now needs to be an emphasis on the application of the knowledge. Any concerns that were raised in the book monitoring have been addressed in staff meetings.

Going forward, SLT will be doing joint monitoring with our SIP (School Improvement Partner), to ensure consistency in the monitoring of lessons. Teachers will continue to get feedback on book looks and observations, in order to maintain a high level of teaching and learning at Melcombe.

Continued Professional Development by Wayne Leeming

In January all staff had an INSET day. The teaching staff were introduced to software to compliment their teaching of EAL children and the support staff received their annual Level 2 Safeguarding training from Hilary Shaw. A further twenty five members of staff went on courses outside the school during the Spring term. These ranged from the Admin Staff going on Advanced SIMs reporting through to the EAL leaders conference.

Middle Leader Programme by Fiona Tyler

Middle leaders have continued to work energetically and positively within their curriculum areas and are now in the process of auditing this years teaching of the areas with the support of Natasha Myrtil and Alison Bridges.

Release for middle leaders has continued this term but is in the process of changing. The changes that are being implemented are:


Giving certain middle leaders extra time to implement new planning and programs of study - in summer 1 that will be Jemma Elson for music and Liberty Allen for RE.

Releasing middle leaders in order to prepare good quality staff meetings Releasing middle leaders to meet with Natasha and Alison in order to audit their subject

areas.

The tracking system as proved quite beneficial as I am able to analyse what middle leaders are doing in their time and ensuring that the time is managed well. As of the summer term 1 will be changing release time as middle leaders will need to request time (if not allocated a slot) via emailing myself and stating what they need the time for.

Literacy, Science and Topic book looks have taken place to ensure the consistency of marking and assessment is still in place as well as ensuring new topics have been covered appropriately and to a high standard. This has proved to be as positive as ever.

Middle leaders will be given the opportunity to observe their subject area in the opposite phase year in summer 2. Again I will be collecting evidence from these to ensure that good practice is being observed and positive comments are being fed back to the teachers.

Pupil Premium by Roz Hemingway

In January, Chris Pim, an independent consultant, delivered INSET for all teachers to demonstrate useful ICT materials available to support learning with view to purchase. Teachers submitted a wish list and all items have been purchased and are in use to support learning in classrooms.

Analysis of test results show that, on average in KS1, 82% of children are online to reach their targets in reading, writing and numeracy of which 41% have already reached or exceeded their targets. In KS2, 65% of children are online to reach their targets in reading, writing and numeracy of which 19% have already reached or exceeded their targets. Spring 2 test results will be analysed and support will be adjusted to ensure pupil premium children are supported as much as possible.

Early Years Foundation Stage by Wendy Dormer

Continued promotion of hands on active learning has been a key focus within both the Reception classes and Nursery over the last term. Reception have been visited by both the local Fire Engine and Police horses where children are learning as part of a community. Children in the Nursery have engaged in drama events, cooking sessions in the Childrens Centre and the continuation of Forest Schools. Nursery have also planted potatoes as part of a national competition!

Currently the Nursery has 4 part time places, which have been accepted by children of siblings to begin in April 2015. We are also about to see the implementation of Nursery pupil premium, which we are hoping will generate sufficient funds to focus on language and communication development for our children. This continues to be an area of significant need and generally children who require a referral to speech and language are those children who have not attended a Childrens Centre.

Both year groups have hosted teaching students who have all contributed to the focused learning of our children. The term has been incredibly busy and fast paced but we are all


proud of our children who are eager to learn and enthusiastic towards all the challenges we give them.

PSHE by Carol Campbell

The Values Education is now outdated and we are currently exploring a better PSHE scheme of work which will come in to effect from September 2015.

In line with curriculum changes, Wayne and I have been discussing the various ways in which Values education needs to be changed and to this end I have been exploring different ways of interpreting Government guidelines about SMSC Spiritual, Moral Social Cultural - education, including interweaving it into the fabric of our new curriculum. Watch this space!

SEN by Jenny Cox

At present we have 13 children with statements of special educational needs and over 100 children identified with special educational needs. Most of these children have issues with accessing the curriculum at the appropriate level so rely on an adult to give them access to the work.

In future times this will become more of a problem as it seems that it will be considerably harder to obtain an Education Healthcare Plan than it was to get a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

Our current EP Carmel Brady is starting her maternity leave and Rebecca Blamire is taking her place. We continue to have a high need for speech and language therapy and have been lucky to have Laura and Jess to create and model programmes for our children.

Student Voice

Eco Warriors by Jenny Cox

During Waste Week- 2-6th March Eco Warriors set themselves a challenge which was to save energy in school. The Eco Warriors were to be the light monitors and their job was to turn off lights when they left the classroom or when the light outside was bright enough that lights were not needed. Some success was achieved but we will continue to work on this. During this week the Eco Warriors and Year 6R learnt to make paper from recycled shredded paper. The sessions were run by Hannah from the Urban Studies Centre. Look at the photos on the website to see how much pleasure the children received from participating in this activity.

On 24th March John, our school gardener, and I are meeting Julie Henley Wilkinson who is the Schools & Community Engagement Officer from Food Growing Schools London, a subsidiary of Garden Organic. She is interested in looking at our designated growing areas and the ways in which children are involved in researching, planting and maintaining simple edible plants.

Enterprisers by Robyn Pearce


The Enterprise Committee launched the Stationary Shop, a Pupils Profit initiative, at Melcombe Primary in November of last year. This project has since been running every mid-term, and has now become a much anticipated event at the school. The Enterprise Committee children work as a team, working in various departments and taking on job roles such as Director, Stock Control Manager, Sales Manager and Finance Manager. They have learnt valuable business skills as a result of their various duties in which they establish prices for products; complete regular stock takes and maintain stock control records on spreadsheets.

Fairtraders by Gwen Cummins

For Fairtrade week this year I set a fairtrade-themed research project, where each child was able to explain why we take part in fairtrade. This was very popular and we had a large number of children taking part. We also held a fairtrade cake (bake off) sale which was very succsessful, and rasied 86.00. Along side these activities, we also arranged a fairtrade food collection, which was then taken to the H&F food bank for the vunerable people in the local area.

International Ambassadors by Wayne Leeming

The International Ambassadors have been working with Ms Campbell, the Rights Recspectors and the Global Ambassadors, on a project called the Team London Young Ambassador programme, funded by the Mayor of London, which aims to educate children to volunteer and make a difference to their local and wider community.

We have also begun working with James Adams the Schools Manager from Just Enough UK. They are working within parliament on the new Modern Slavery Bill. They work in partnership with the NSPCC, Barnardos and the Met Police. The Year 5 and 6 children will be taking part in workshops about modern slavery called Show and Tell

We have also indicated that we will become an Ambassador primary school for our area. This means the school supports the fight against Modern day slavery and we will have the opportunity to host visitors from parliament, press or celebrity guests whenever they would like to see the "Show and Tell" take place in a school.

Junior Road Safety Officers by Kim Murray

During Spring we have organised the Big Pedal Competition which encourages children, staff and parents to ride their bikes or scooters to school. We did well but not as well as in previous years. We are also about to begin Walk to School Wednesdays where children receive badges if they walk to school on a Wednesday.

Mediators by Jacqueline Parram

Mediators continue to support the prefects and work in the playground ensuring that children get along. The mediators have met with me and we did training around How to be a good mediator.

Prefects by Carol Campbell


Prefects have been involved in promoting positive behaviour and democracy within school. At our regular meetings, various aspects of being a Prefect are discussed. For example the poor behaviour choices of a Prefect were discussed as a group and I asked them to decide what should happen as a result. After some debate, it was suggested that they should lose their badge, this was then thought too harsh and at the end of the meeting, they decided with a vote, that if a Prefect was to be in Reflection twice in a term, he or she would then lose their right to be a Prefect and would have to hand in their badge. Also discussed were duties and timetable issues, which were easily solved between the group of 18 Prefects.

Rights Respectors by Carol Campbell

Rights Respecting pupils from Year Six joined with other Year Six Committee Members to take part in the inspirational We Day at Wembley Arena, funded by the Mayor of London. During the day they heard from speakers, such as Malala, the Pakistani girls education activist, about the importance of education throughout the world, Richard Branson and many other speakers. As a result, the Year Six Pupils wrote and presented an assembly to Key Stage 2 pupils to raise awareness about both local and global issues that children can be involved in, with the powerful message that children can and do change injustices in the world.

Healthy Schools (Main School) by Wayne Leeming

The Healthy school programme is a long term National initiative, helping young people and schools to be healthy. The healthy schools programme involves the whole school community i.e. pupils, parents, governors and school staff. Healthy Schools is a local programme providing support, training, resources and guidance for all schools.The aim of the Healthy schools programme is to deliver real benefits for children and young people, specifically:

To support children and young people in developing healthy behaviours To help raise the achievement of children and young people To help reduce health inequalities To help promote social inclusion

Melcombe is currently working towards the Silver award and this will be evaluated in July this year.

Healthy Schools (EYFS) by Samina Kabir

Potato growing is well under way in the Nursery and potato watch has begun in earnest! Last Saturday I went to the Edible Garden Show at Alexandra Palace with a fellow Early Years colleague and we have returned with loads of inspiration and ideas on how to create an exciting edible garden at Melcombe.

Fatooms Kitchen has been very successful and this is something that the pupils look forward to each week. Forest School was under way again this term, giving new Nursery pupils an opportunity to engage in a safe physical activity to support their physical and emotional well being.


Forest School by Rhiannon Everson

Forest school has changed quiet a bit this year. Sessions have been running with the Nursery, Year 1 and a mixed Year 1 and 2 group.

In Nursery we have focused on; communication, language and literacy, Personal, social and emotional development and Physical developments, with the key themes being Independence and self confidence. One session a week has been running down at the forest school site.

For Year One the focus has been seasons. We have looked for signs of the seasons changing and the reasons why. One session a week for both classes (3 weeks 1E, 3 weeks 1F).

The Year 1 / 2 group has been part of Melcombe University with the focus on teamwork and tool skills. The children have had a range of activities from working independently with tools and supporting each other to be safe with tools.

We have continued to use the same timetable for the forest school sessions off site.

The main ethos has continued throughout the sessions by ensuring all adults use positive reinforcement and by giving the children responsibilities and independence.

From taking the year ones (the original group going to forest school last year) I can see a massive improvement in their willingness to try new things, independence, confidence in being out and about and their understanding of how to stay safe.

I am looking forward to continuing forest school next year in Early Years and Key Stage One.

Sports Premium by Jake Taylor

What is the Sports Premium?

The Government is providing funding of 150 million per annum for academic years 2013/14 and 2014/15 to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.

The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.

Purpose of funding

Schools will have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.

Possible uses for the funding include:

hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE

new or additional Change4Life sport clubs


paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE/sport providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs.

How will we be spending the Sports Funding and who will benefit?

The Governors agree that the money must be used so that: all children benefit regardless of sporting ability; that the most able children are given the opportunity to compete in advanced tournaments; that staff have access to training opportunities and continued professional development.

How much money did Melcombe receive?

In the financial year 2013/2014 the school received 5704.00In the financial year 2014/2015 the school received 3601 and 5454 totalling9055This money wasring fenced to give us a current total of 14 759.00

Below we show how we intend to spend the sports funding during 2014-2015:

Providing places for pupils for after school sport club

Our school already offers a range of after-school clubs, accessed by children from Key Stages one and two at a cost.As of March 2015, the sport premium has seen sports clubs subsidises in order for less advantaged students to be able to take part. This has been beneficial for students and parents as it provides quality sports coaching to those who dont often get the opportunity. This will continue to run into the Summer Term. This iscosting the school 700 per term.

Increasing participation in school sport

Sports Premium will also cover the cost of Sports Week, which will see a range of sport coaches teach the students a range of different sports. We have budgeted 3000 for this and the idea is to introduce the children to sports which they are unlikely to encounter such as fencing, archery, tennis, street golf etc. Reception and KS1 classes will have a group come in to offer them Multi Sports.

We have also enquired about booking the Linford Christie sport centre to host the sports day for KS2. The idea is to smarten up the school sports day for KS2 and give them use of proper and professional facilities. We have budgeted 5000 for this and this includes the use of the stadium, hiring in a professional group to run the sports day and transport to get KS2 to the stadium.

Development of the Teaching Staff

The school is investing in a scheme of work for PE which will cost 2000. This will help the teaching staff deliver better PE sessions in that it will ensure thatthere is consistency of practice across the school and that there is a clear progression of skills.

The school has also set aside 2000 to pay for professional coaches to help develop the staff by working alongside teachers and giving INSET when appropriate.


BUDGET

Sports Week - 3000Scheme of Work - 2000Children at clubs - 2000Sports Day - 5000 (transport 2k, hire 1k, Company 2k)INSET - 2000

Melcombe Childrens Centre by Wendy Dormer

This term has seen us fully staffed again with our new Deputy in place. Carole has been proactively working on our links with children with disabilities, child-minders and settings in the private and voluntary sector. These engagements have already seen a steady increase in our contacts and beneficially assisted us in driving forward with our Service level agreements and Ofsted requirements.

We have finally surpassed our target of 90% reach area coverage, which now stands at 92%. Since January we have seen 37% of our reach area children and 69% over the last year. 68% of these have been target group children for the quarter and 64% for the year. In the last year 68% of our registered families have attended at least 3 events.February saw us all working very hard to promote Vitamin D with our Health partners and as part of the Vitamin distribution campaign we won the most inventive promotion in the local authority. Melcombe held the celebration event and were presented with an impressive trophy and 100.00 voucher.

Family support cases continue to increase with more people coming to us for help with Education, Health Care plans where there is a child with a disability. There has also been an increase in families needing support for poverty and homelessness.As always the team work continue to work incredibly hard engaging with both clients and partners. Our new Service Level Agreement is currently being reviewed by commissioning and we are proud to be part of a Local Authority who believes in the importance of the work we do with children under 5.

Safeguarding by Jenny Cox

Safeguarding continues to be high priority. At present the Learning mentor is managing most of the classified cases and Wayne and myself are the named contacts for the MASH- multi agency safeguarding hub. MASH deal with referrals from the police or agencies like the NSPCC.

Teaching staff have recently received Mental Health training through two extended staff meetings. The aim was to raise staff awareness of issues such as the attachment between the key parent and the child and how insecure attachments can impact on the behaviour of the child.

Michelle Journet has completed her training as an ELSA which is an emotional literacy support assistant. This is a position recommended by Ofsted and is meant to offer short term help for identified children.


School Strengths & Areas to DevelopStrengths of the School

1 The Teaching & Learning ModelThis is the systematic way in which all lessons are taught at Melcombe. This model ensures all children are able to access the learning, understand the value of what they are learning and know what they need to do to be successful.

2 Literacy Planning and ToolkitsThese are the systematic, differentiated and progressive planning for Literacy and the teaching aids which are used to support the teaching of Literacy from Nursery through to Year 6.

3 Behaviour Management in classThis is the system used across the school to deal with minor behaviour issues within the class during teaching time.

4 KS2 ResultsThese are the end of school results by the Year 6s and include Speaking & Listening, Reading, Writing, Mathematics and Science. They are measured against targets set by the school, previous years results and nationally.

5 Trips and First Hand ExperiencesThe staff take the children out on various trips and invite guests in to the school to initiate learning and create excitement around the topic.

6 Progress of children across the schoolTracking the results of the children across the school, particularly at the end of EYFS, KS1 and KS2, and comparing them to the aspirational targets set at the beginning of each year indicates that most children make good progress.

7 MonitoringThis is the system whereby the senior leaders observe staff teaching and staff observe each other and rate the standards they have observed.

8 Middle LeadersAll teaching staff who are not senior leaders and who lead a subject are considered to be Middle Leaders.

9 Pastoral CareThis is the amount of effort put in by the staff of the school to the childrens welfare to ensure the children are safe both at school and home, and able to learn.

10 8 to 5 CareThis is the chance for children to be at school from 8am to 5pm by providing structured opportunities both before and after the normal school day.


Whats new?

ICT Technician

The school has employed a permanent ICT Technician who is on site daily from 8am - 4pm and is currently hired through Reeds Employment Agency.

Areas of Concern

1 Behaviour Systems These are the systems which kick in when a childs behaviour warrants further action than discussed in Behaviour Management in Class such as Reflection and Exclusion.

2 Assessing Maths The school follows the Maths Makes Sense approach to Numeracy but assesses using the QCA and other assessment packages.

3 Staff Retention This is the schools ability or inability to retain staff who have been trained in the Melcombe ways and who move to other schools for various reasons.

4 Punctuality of Children Although attendance and punctuality have always been a problem, and the school has spent the last two years successfully tackling attendance, punctuality remains a problem

5 Technology Issues These are the problems the staff have with the photocopier, printers, computers and laptops.

6 School Dinners The dinners children receive at lunch time from the school.

7 Communal Areas Areas inside the school building such as outside the Admin Office and outside the Melcombe Shop on the Ground Floor, and these areas on the two floors above.

8 Playgrounds The North and South Playgrounds.

9 Reading Scheme This is the consistent and progressive scheme for reading in the school.


Documents

MPS Gov Report Spring 2015