Weekly Bulletin

2015/16
Week 23: Monday 7th
March

Theme: Family

A. What went well last week

Alston / Nenthead

Samuel Kings

Community Breakfast raised 77(much improved) and garden stall

raised 15
High Vis vests provided by past PPA for both schools.
World Book Day went well. Super costumes! Great fun had by all.
Music Service INSET went well. The possibility of using Skype and
other packages to enhance childrens learning experiences is there.
Improvement Plan target to enlist the support of more and more
external agencies being met. Last week saw police road safety input,
as well as speech therapy & advocacy links.
First drafts of the two SEFs now completed and being reviewed at the
current round of Governor committee meetings.

Chelseas Choice production hard hitting but got the message across
very effectively once again. Students got a lot from it.
Two useful visits for the GCSE Business Studies group on Friday to
TotalPost and the Spar. The Basic Skills group also had a good trip out.
Thanks to FB for the World Book Day Quiz in assembly. Students
enjoyed it and clearly knew a lot about the books they had read.
Sam Beaumont will be joining out exam invigilation team for this
summers exams following her meeting with PS last week. It will be
good to have someone of her background and experience with us.

B. This weeks diary

Alston / Nenthead
Monday

Tuesday

Samuel Kings

Today
10.30a
m
11.30p
m
2.00pm
3.25pm

NPS off to the Botanical Gardens in Durham

KO/EK/KT interventions meeting
Prospective parent in to see KO
Jess McEvoy in for a meeting
Netball Club after school at Alston

Today
8.50am
9.05am
9.25am
12.50pm
1.45pm

AM
9.15am
9.30am
11.15a
m

KO out this morning

Speech & Language Specialist at APS
PCSO Dean Raine at NPS re Road Safety
School Nurse at APS
KO teaching at NPS. LP on teacher assessment

Today
9.00am
10.00am
3.35pm
5.00am

Two small groups at Carlisle Drama / Music

Festival
Staff Briefing
School Assembly with IPJ
IPJ off on NPS visit to Durham
ST / LC at UCC for data familiarisation
MF and the GCSE Business Studies group
visiting Bonds
LC out on INSET
Meningitis vaccinations for Years 9/11
AMP meeting upstairs in Old ICT
Staff Spinning with Jonny Bell.
Ten students off to Carlisle Music / Drama

 Wednes
day

PM
3.30pm
Today
Lunch
PM
3.30pm
4.00pm

course.
Recycling Club at NPS
CR out at SENCO meeting. KO teaching at NPS
APS Gardening Club
U Dance workshop at NPS
Football club with Paul Jeffrey at APS
Staff Meeting after school at Alston

Thursda
y

Today
AM
3.25pm

PP at EYFS course
KO teaching at NPS
Homework Club at APS

Friday

9.00am
1.10pm
PM

CR/PP meeting re EHA

APS Assembly with IPJ
Flinty Fell U Dance workshop

6.00pm

8.50am
P3&4
1.00pm
3.30pm
Evening

Today
11.00am
12.30pm
PM
3.45pm
Today
8.50am
9.05am
PM

Festival
Student Outcomes Governor Committee
Staff Briefing
Martin Ashley with Year 9 re railway
apprenticeships
FB taking four students to QEHS debating
event
Club night. Spinning. Football. Table Tennis.
Governor training for BC/HW/AM/VM/SW
Monitoring Week lesson observations
Ellen Mothersdale from WHS in re PPM with ST
Eden Young Carers drop in
SL out this afternoon
Staff Spinning with Jonny Bell
Monitoring Week lesson observations
Staff Briefing
School Assembly with ST
Core PE this afternoon

C. Other Items
Alston / Nenthead

From KO:
My focus for this week
includes the Maths recovery
work and a look at our ICT
provision.
Wednesdays staff meeting
will include input from IPJ on
staffing for next year.

Samuel Kings
From ST:
Tutor activities are Literacy this week - Dean has the activities in his literacy pack.
Thursday is our Pupil Premium Review day. Ellen Mothersdale will be in school from 11am
meeting myself and Tracey to go through our PP action plan. Lesson 3 and 4, we will be in
Maths and English talking to students and looking at books. Please can all teachers and tutors
have a look at the Raising Achievement Plans for our underachieving PP students and be
ready to talk about how you target PP students in your lessons and tutor groups from
questioning to marking to homeworks etc. I'll send out the updated plans today with the
action plans complete on them after our last teacher's meeting discussion.
Looking ahead to next Monday (14th). Ron and his colleagues are in school to run a PSHE
enrichment day for all Year 9,10,11s. They will be off timetable all day and will have 5
activities, one per lesson. They will be in groups of 10. I'll send out the details of the groups
and rooms they'll be using.

From LC:
This week is monitoring week with observations taking place Thursday and Friday. A
conversation will be had prior to the observation to agree the area of questioning you want to
focus on for feedback. Remember the training that we did last term, this is an opportunity for
you to reflect on how you have implemented these strategies.

 If any teachers are planning on running any Easter revision sessions could you please let me
know dates, times and classes its open to so we can send one letter out with all the
information.