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Mabel Prichard
School News
16th December 2009 - 2.00 pm Nativity
at Holy Family Church.
All
welcome
18th December 2009 - 10.00am
Carol Service and Father Christmas. School hall on
primary site. All welcome.
January 2010 - New build for key stage 3,
4 and 5 classrooms at The Oxford Academy to start.
31st July
– 2009 to 2010 Holiday dates now available. Click here
to find out more
8th July Mabel Prichard
is now part of the
School Sports Partnership. Click
here to find out more
26th Sept
2008 – new dates for your diaries !
Harvest Festival Friday
3rd October at Sacred Heart
Church in Sawpit Road @
2.00 pm - all welcome
Christmas Nativity at Holy Family Church
@ 2.00 pm on Wednesday 17th December - all welcome
Carol Service on Friday 19th December @ 10.00 am on primary site in Cuddesdon Way
- all welcome - Father Christmas may pay a visit!
Calendar for 2008/9 now available.
22nd Sept
2008
Fair Processing Notice:
How Mabel
Prichard School
processes personal data about its pupils in accordance with the Data
Protection Act.
08th Sept
2008
Peers School closed on the 31st August 2008 and re-opened as The Oxford Academy on
1st September 2008. Our older children are based at Peers. The Oxford Academy is to be rebuilt over the next
2/3 years with Mabel Prichard Upper school having a
brand new base. The base will be opened during 2010/2011 when we will be able
to offer places to 16-19 year olds.
The school appointed seven new staff in September
(mostly Teaching Assistants). The extra staff were needed due to an increase
in pupil numbers and some children needing to have 1:1 support throughout the
school day
11th June
2008
We had an Ofsted Inspection April
30th / May 1st 2008. Ofsted give one of four grades
for seven areas of school life i.e. (1) Outstanding, (2) Good, (3)
Satisfactory and (4) inadequate.
Grades for recent inspection were: Good (2) for
Overall effectiveness of the school, Outstanding (1) for the Foundation
Stage, Good (2) for achievements and standards, Outstanding (1) for Personal development and well-being, Good
(2) for teaching and learning, Good (2) for curriculum and other activities,
Good (2) for Care, Guidance and Support and Good (2) for Leadership and
Management.
“Pupils love coming to the school and parents are, almost without
exception, very pleased for children to attend, knowing they are safe and
happy and are making good progress”.
We did really well and we are all very pleased
with the results !
25th March
2008
Fun Day Monday 9th June
2008. Come to the primary site
from 9.30 to 11.30 am - all welcome. School is
raising funds for our sensory garden. Lots of fun including
Bouncy Castle, cake stalls, football match,
face painting, aerobics. Bring your money!!!!
8th March 2008
New
article in Oxford Times praises Mabel Prichard’s motoring project, Trax, which is designed to find a way for youngsters with
learning difficulties with an introduction to the workplace.
“It was brilliant. I'm really pleased to
get the job and I'm excited about starting work and college in
September."
Read
the full article.
7th February 2008
Parent
/ Carer's Consultation: The Headteacher, on behalf
of the Governing Body seek parents and carers views
on a range of school issues. Recent comments include:
"I am very proud my son attends Mabel Prichard School.
It is a fantastic school. The teaching is outstanding"
"The teachers are very dedicated to the
children, they always help"
"Good friendly ethos in the school"
"Friendly, caring,
supportive, helpful. Good teaching, very good support staff
with great care for the children and their well being"
Contact us to
tell us your views !!
14th January 2008
Welcome
to our “very special school” -
click here
to read the Message from Jane Wallington, Headteacher
10th
December
The
school has just been awarded "Healthy Schools Award". This
recognises our commitment to healthy eating, importance of physical exercise,
PE curriculum, children's voice and parental support.
12th
November
The
school successfully submitted a Travel Plan which was accepted by the Local
Authority. In addition we were given a grant by The Lord Taverners.
These funds enabled the school to provide a cycle track for the pupils to
learn about road safety and road markings without having to use actual roads.
4th October
The school is going sports mad! We have a professional hockey
and cricket coach in school each week teaching the younger children new
skills.
The school was awarded a grant to employ
an Artist in Residence - we have employed a potter to work in the
school every Friday this term - we are hoping to make a display for outside
the primary site entrance. The theme is "The faces of Oxford"
In late October we have a company working in the school for five
mornings offering music & dance sessions as part of our extended school
work (successful Sure Start bid by the Partnership of local schools)
Xmas activities:
Wednesday 19th
December at 2.00 pm @ Holy Family
Church: School Nativity
- all welcome
Thursday 20th
December at 1.45pm - Pantomine for the children
Friday 21st December
at 10.00am Carol Service for everyone (primary site)
3rd July
Green class have been very busy
growing their own vegetables in school. Some local garden centres donated
seeds and vouchers. The children have been learning all about healthy foods.
In the last week of school there will be a grand sale of produce.
Gold class won first place for
their "Business Enterprise project" with the Thames Valley
Partnership. They received their award at the Rowing Club in Henley on Thames.
Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 pupils
have been competing in sports with local primary schools in our local
partnership of schools.
The open day for our new
primary site was attended by almost 200 people. The local MP Andrew Smith
popped in amongst other invited guests.
Read all about
it in the Oxford
Mail
Hinksey Heights Golf
Club gave the school a cheque for £2000 fund raised by their golfers. All the
children set off balloons with postcards attached -Rhys won the competition
for the farthest it flew - all the way to Selby in North
Yorkshire!
17th April
School successfully
retained its Investor in People Award in January 2007. IIP first awarded in
November 2000
New site to be
officially opened on 25th May by Ian Rose (Double Paralymic
Medallist)
Green class are now
constructing a garden area in the main driveway - any donations are welcomed!
Lord and Lady Taverners
have agreed a grant to develop the outside play area. Watch this space for
more information.
26th
February
GREAT NEWS! We have moved into our new site
Miss Tracy Jameson (teacher of Green class)
is moving to Peru
in February to take up a teaching position. She has been replaced by Miss
Doreen Foster.
The children have been working very hard on
their Travel Plan project - the school is hoping to access up to £5000 which
we can use to raise awareness of how we get to school. Possible expenditure
could be a marked play area on the playground where chidlren
learn about STOP, GIVE WAY
etc.
Reminder for parents and carers - the school
has adopted a compulsory school uniform from September 2007 - please contact
the school office for an order form
You may remember the school won Oxfordshire's
Christmas Card competition in December 2006 which was
officially used by Keith Bartley (Director for Children, Young People and
Families). The school purchased 200 cards - these are on sell now until
Christmas 2007 at 85p each
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