Annual Report to Parents 09/10

Agenda

Agenda for the Annual Parent's Meeting to be held at Mount Pleasant Primary School on Thursday 23rd September 2010 at 6:00pm

1. Introductory Remarks

2. To receive and consider the Governor's Annual Report for the Academic Year 2009 / 2010

 

Dear Parents

 

Please find enclosed the Annual Governors Report for Parents for the school year 2009/2010.

 

One significant development this year was the departure of Mrs Sue Roche who left in February to take on a Head's appointment. We thank her for the years of hard work and this led to the subsequent appointment of Andrew Rothwell to the Deputy Head position. Many congratulations to both and I hope they are enjoying their new roles.

 

The results achieved by the school are excellent and reflect the hard work and dedication of the staff and their commitment to your children. On behalf of the Governors I would like to thank Mr Northgrave - Williams, the teachers and all the support staff. Spending time in the school, I can see that everyone working here makes a difference in some way and benefits Mount Pleasant School.

 

Thanks to my colleagues on the Governing Body for their commitment in attending the meetings and events within the school.  Sadly, we lose Vicky Evans as Teacher Representative on the Governing Body and I send her many thanks for the time and valuable input she gave to the meetings. We welcome Jackie Wagstaff as Mrs Evans' replacement and hope that she enjoys her time in the role.     

 

The PTA continues to help the school by organising numerous events which I hope you and the children enjoy. Their work is vitally important, and allows the staff to buy the "fun" resources for the children that would not always be possible from the school budget. The new outside trim trail, shelters and games are the latest example of this. Thank you to the members for their continuing hard work and thanks to you the parents for your continued support of these events. I think you will agree that the grounds are looking the best they ever have. Our next challenge is the pathways and a solution will be worked on in the coming year.

 

The school has fully embedded the new Curriculum and Foundation Phase and these have greatly enhanced the learning within the school. The new themed approach is so beneficial in children leading their own learning and gaining new skills. A great accomplishment this year is in gaining the Becta IT Mark which was led by Mr Rothwell and Mr Smith. The comments received from the Inspector highly commended their work in enhancing IT provision in the school. Well done to them both and, Mr Smith, we will really miss your enthusiasm and life you give to the school.

 

Annual Meeting for parents: 23^rd September 2010 at 18:00

 

Thank you on behalf of the staff and Governors for your continued support. Here's to another successful year!

 

Jackie Goodwin -  Chair of Governors

 

 

 

 

NEWPORT CITY COUNCIL

THE GOVERNING BODY OF  Mount Pleasant Primary School

 

	POS'N
Acting Clerk   Mrs Karen Horan	Governor Services Civic Centre
Community Governor   Mr Edward Hart
Community Governor   Mr A Gould
Mr Gordon King
Mrs Christine Thomas
Headteacher   Mr Andrew Northgrave-Williams
LEA Appointed   Councillor Valerie Dudley
Councillor Stephen Jones
Mrs June Toleman
Non Voting Co-opted Linked   Mr Andrew Rothwell
Parent Representative   Mrs Jackie Goodwin	Chair
Mrs Samantha Lewis
Mrs Sally Owen-Morris
Mr Gary Watkins	Vice Chair
Staff Representative   Mrs Linda Jones
Teacher Representative   Mrs Victoria Evans

 

 

 

Aims and Mission Statement

We aim to:-

 

Encourage pupils to value and respect themselves and others.

 

Ensure learning is fun, meaningful and progressive and enables pupils to develop skills to become lifelong learners.

 

Provide an integrated, creative, challenging and interactive curriculum enriching learning for all pupils.

 

Enhance the environment to make it attractive, fun and thought provoking, to encourage global citizenship and sustainability.

 

Develop a supportive forward thinking staff team valuing professional development.

 

Value parental support and involve them fully in the life of the school through an open door policy.

 

Make our school the heart of the community by celebrating and developing links which enhance learning.

 

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

 

'Sowing the seeds for success'

 

 

The school vision and aims are reviewed annually by the Head teacher, staff and Governing Body.

 

 

 

Current Internal Organisation

 

Reception	Mrs Wagstaff
Reception / Year 1	Mrs Jones
Year 1	Mrs Cooke
Year 2	Miss O'Brien
Year 3 / 4	Mr Smith
Year 3 / 4	Mr Hopkins
Year 3 / 4	Ms Lintern
Year 5 / 6	Mrs Evans
Year 5 / 6	Mrs Irvine
Year 5 / 6	Mr Rothwell

 

 

 

The Curriculum

Aims

 

All children have a right to a broad, balanced and relevant education which provides continuity and progression and takes individual differences into account.  Work in Mount Pleasant is designed to meet the requirements of Curriculum 2008 and Foundation Phase and prepare them for their place in society.

 

 

 

At Mount Pleasant we:

• Create a holistic approach to curriculum delivery where pupils are encouraged to plan, develop and reflect their learning goals.
• Cater for the needs of individual children of both sexes from all ethnic and social groups, including the most able and those who are experiencing additional learning needs;
• Facilitate children's acquisition of knowledge, skills and qualities which will help them to develop intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically, morally and aesthetically, so that they may become independent, responsible, useful, thinking, confident and considerate members of the community;
• Create and maintain an exciting and stimulating learning environment;
• Ensure that each child's education has continuity and progression;
• Ensure that there is a match between the child and the tasks he/she is asked to perform;
• We set realistically high standards in academic personal and social learning goals;
• Provide an appropriate curricular balance;
• Recognise the crucial role which parents play in their children's education and make every effort to encourage parental involvement in the educational process;
• Treat all members of the school community with respect;
• Create a culture of lifelong learning for all.

 

Our pupils:

 

• Learn to be adaptable, how to solve problems in a variety of situations, how to work independently and as members of a team;
• Be developing the ability to make reasoned judgements and choices, based on interpretation and evaluation of relevant information from a variety of sources;
• Be happy, cheerful and well balanced;
• Be enthusiastic and eager to put their best into all activities;
• Acquire a set of moral values, e.g. honesty, sincerity, personal responsibility; on which to base their own behaviour;
• Be expected to behave in a dignified and acceptable way and learn to become responsible for their actions;
• Care for and take pride in their school;
• Develop tolerance, respect and appreciation of the feelings and capabilities of others in an unbiased way;
• Develop non-sexist and non-racist attitudes;
• Know how to think, investigate and solve problems mathematically in a variety of situations using concepts of number, algebra, measurement, shape and space, and handling data;
• Be able to listen and read for a variety of purposes and be able to convey their meaning accurately and appropriately through speech and writing for a variety of purposes;
• Develop an enquiring mind and scientific approach to problems;
• Have an opportunity to create and solve problems using technological skills;
• Be capable of communicating their knowledge and feelings through various art forms including art/craft, music, drama and be acquiring appropriate techniques and skills which will enable them to develop their inventiveness, entrepreneurial skills and creativity;
• Know about geographical, historical and social aspects of the local environment and their Welsh national heritage and culture and be aware of other times and places and recognise links among family, local, national and international events;
• Have a developing knowledge of the beliefs of the major world regions;
• Develop agility, physical co-ordination and confidence in and through movement;
• Know how to apply the basic principles of health, hygiene and safety.

 

 

Attendance 2009/2010

 

96.0% for the Year  

3.7% authorised absences

0.3% unauthorized absences

 

School performance

At Mount Pleasant we are very proud of the quality of learning and the achievement of our pupils in every year group. The year 2009-10 has been extremely successful for pupils including those at the end of Year 2 and Year 6 who completed their teacher assessments. Below is a summary of  pupil results at the end of Key Stages 1 and 2 it compares the school results with those of Newport and of Wales.

 

End of Key Stage 1 2009-2010

Pupils achieving levels 2+	CSI core school indicator Achieved results in Maths English and Science %
Year 2009-2010	Mount Pleasant	Newport	Wales
	100	87	81

 

End of Key Stage 2  2009-2010

Pupils achieving levels 4+	CSI core school indicator Achieved results in Maths English and Science %
Year 2009-2010	Mount Pleasant	Newport	Wales
	100	80	76

  

 

Comparison of Key Stage results 2009 - 2010

Key Stage 1

Teacher Assessment: Level 2+

Key Stage 1	School	Wales	Newport
Maths	100	87	87
English	100	83	82
Science	100	89	90
CSI	100	86	81

 

  Teacher Assessment: Level 3

Key Stage 1	School	Wales
Maths	76	22
English	77	19
Science	76	23
CSI	76%	21%

 

 

Key Stage 2

% Teacher Assessment: Level 4+

Key Stage 2	School	Wales	Newport
Maths	100	81	70
English	100	80	70
Science	100	86	78
CSI	100%	76%	73%

 

%  Teacher Assessment: Level 5

Key Stage 2	School	Wales
Maths	68	30
English	75	29
Science	81	32
CSI	74%	30%

 

Comparison of Results over a three year period

 Key Stage 1

% Teacher Assessment: Level 2 +

Key Stage 1	2008  School  Wales		2009 School   Wales		2010 School   Wales
Maths	100	87	100	87	100	87
English	100	83	100	83	100	82
Science	100	89	100	89	100	90
CSI	100%	86%	100%	86%	100%	81%

 

 

 

 

 

 % Teacher Assesment: Level 3

Key Stage 1	2008 School   Wales		2009 School    Wales		2010 School    Wales
Maths	48	23	50	22	76	22
English	52	20	44	19	77	19
Science	90	24	60	23	76	23
CSI	61%	22%	51%	21%	76%	21%

 

Key Stage 2

% Teacher Assessment: Level 4 +

Key Stage2	2008 School  Wales		2009 School   Wales		2010 School   Wales
Maths	98	81	98	81	100	81
English	100	79	98	79	100	80
Science	96	86	100	86	100	86
CSI	96%	82%	98%	82%	100%	76%

 

 

 

 

Teacher Assessment: Level 5

Key Stage2	2008 School  Wales		2009 School   Wales		2010 School   Wales
Maths	84	33	61	33	68	30
English	77	30	75	30	75	29
Science	77	34	68	34	81	32
CSI	79%	32%	68%	32%	74%	30%

 

 

Analysis of  Realistic School Targets  2009-10

No achieving level 2+ %	2009 - 2010
	Target	Result
Maths	100	100
English	100	100
Science	100	100
Total  CSI	100%	100%

 

No achieving level 3 %	2009 - 2010
	Target	Result
Total  CSI	43%	76%

 

 

 

 

 

No achieving level 4+ %	2009 - 2010
	Target	Result
Maths	94	100
English	94	100
Science	100	100
Total  CSI	94%	100%

 

No achieving level 5 %	2009 - 2010
	Target	Result
Total  CSI	71%	74%

 

 

Financial Statement

 

Financial Statement for year ending 31^st March 2009 is attached.