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Dear families,
I have been sent the following information about tomorrow from Retford Oaks:
Information for parents
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CHILD BRINGS A PACKED LUNCH AND A WATER BOTTLE.
I'VE DECIDED TO ASK THE CHILDREN TO COME TO SCHOOL IN BLACK LEGGINGS / TROUSERS AND THEIR PE TOP. WE WILL CHANGE INTO THE BLACK T-SHIRTS JUST BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE SO THAT PEOPLE AREN'T DANCING WITH LUNCH DOWN THEM! ;)
Best wishes,
Mrs Reeson
Certain factors have a positive impact on a child's learning; some factors have a negative impact, and some factors have virtually no impact at all.
Please take a look at the chart below that was produced by John Hattie.
Professor John Hattie is a researcher in education. His research interests include performance indicators, models of measurement and evaluation of teaching and learning. John Hattie became known to a wider public with his two books Visible Learning and Visible Learning for teachers. Visible Learning is a synthesis of more than 800 meta-studies covering more than 80 million students. According to John Hattie Visible Learning is the result of 15 years of research about what works best for learning in schools. The Times Educational Supplement once called him “possibly the world’s most influential education academic”.
I hope you find this information useful. I personally think it is intriguing and surprising in equal measure!
We are delighted to announce that the school has been rated as good overall in the SIAMS inspection.
Collective Worship was rated as excellent; Religious Education as good, giving us an overall grade of 'good' which we are very pleased about.
Mrs Tasker was described as a dynamic RE lead by the inspector and we would like to thank her for her hard work and effort over the past year.
Thank you very much to those of you who spoke to the inspectors in support of the school; we very much appreciate your support.
Please try to read a copy of the full report (it's only 2 pages long) in the Key Information section of the website: SIAMS.
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Newsletter : 8th March 2018
Photographs on Social Media
Dear parents & carers,
It has come to my attention that photographs taken at school events are included on certain parents’ Facebook pages.
It is the school policy that photographs of school events are not uploaded to social media in the interests of safeguarding ALL of our pupils. Unfortunately, many of the photographs that I saw included lots of other pupils from the school alongside the parents’ child(ren).
Not only is this a breach of the Home/School Agreement, it is utterly irresponsible behaviour. The school goes to great lengths to ensure that ALL our pupils are safe and at least one parent has put this at risk.
What is particularly disappointing is that before every single school event, I ask parents and carers not to share images on social media.
If you have photographs that have been taken at school events, that feature children other than your own, even if they are in the background, I would politely request that you remove them from your account.
Unfortunately, if this happens again or if existing photographs are not removed, I will have no other option than to ban the use of phones and iPads etc at school events. This would be both a great pity and completely unfair on those people who do show respect to fellow parents.
I am very sorry that I have had to send such a negative letter. Please forgive me but I have a responsibility to ensure the safeguarding of the pupils at St. Peter’s.
Thank you for your continued support.
Yours sincerely,
Yvonne Reeson - Head teacher