Message from
Headteacher Jim Nixon
You
may remember I mentioned last week, our monitoring visit on the 21st
June as part of Ofsted’s programme of getting ‘Requires Improvement’ schools to
‘Good’ as quickly as possible. The
report has been published on our website and highlights the determined start we
have made along with the various improvements that have taken place in the two
months since the full inspection.
Our
strategy of having a termly action plan (underpinned by an overall two year
plan) to ensure that pace and rigour is recognised, as is our continued work on
teaching and learning. The report also
highlights our extensive lesson observation system and our students being keen
to learn. The commitment of governors
and their support and challenge of the school is similarly praised. I would like to say again that I found the
day challenging yet invigorating.
The
report states that we are taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring
improvement and highlights the need to be consistent in our marking as there is
some exemplary practice taking place. The
report also asks us to take further action ‘to ensure that our lesson
observation system recognises the extent to which accurate assessment is used
to structure the effective learning of all abilities’. At present we are devising a new action plan
for next term to ensure the pace of improvement continues. We are implementing plans in areas where work
was considered to be too easy and not stretching students.
On
the evening of Sunday 21st July there will be a Charity Jazz Concert at CNS. It will be featuring professional musicians
along with some of our students. Please
come along as it will be a fantastic evening.
Tickets are available from the main school reception.
I
hope you enjoy what is meant to be the hottest weekend of the year so far!
Jim
Nixon
Important
dates for parents
Tuesday
9th July : Year 6 induction day
Important
dates for Governors
Wednesday
10th July : Full meeting, Skinner, room 112
Important
dates for Students
Friday
12th July : Year 11 Prom!
Dates
Monday 8th
July
Blakeney
Awards Assembly (Arc 8.35-9am)
Tuesday 9th
July
Holkham
Awards Assembly (Arc 8.35-9am)
Year
6 induction day
Lunchtime
clubs
MFL
film club (room 201)
After school
clubs
Creative
writing club (Learning centre)
Wednesday 10th
July
Kelling
Awards Assembly (Arc 8.35-9am)
Lunchtime
clubs
Christian
Union meeting (room 113)
British
sign language (room 2)
Debating
society (room 20)
After school
clubs
Computing
club (room 25)
Biopunks
(room 104)
Full
Governors meeting (6pm-10pm Skinner,room 112)
Thursday 11th
July
Thornham
Awards Assembly (Arc 8.35-9am)
After school
clubs
SEND
students (room 28)
Jazz
band (Arc)
Garden
club
Friday 12th
July
Winterton
Awards Assembly (Arc, 8.35-9am)
Yr
12 UCAS start
15
Y9 students to UEA for the Festival of Literature for Young People
After school
We
Will Rock You – rehearsals
Yr
11 Prom (Drayton Old Lodge 7-11pm)
