School successfully achieved Artsmark Silver and the Financial management Standard in Schools award in September 2009. Congratulations to everybody who worked hard for these!
The art competition title this term is ‘Santa Claus’ and we hope to have some new pictures for you to see shortly – in the meantime, look at the entries for last year’s Christmas calendar competition ion the Pupil Work page!
We have agreed a working design for the new co-located school and you can look at this on the ‘Read Reports’ page. As you will see, the design includes a grand new Hydrotherapy pool, much bigger classrooms, a lovely indoor courtyard, and much improved access and grounds. We are working to finalise the design with a final start date for development of April 2010, when we hope the building work will begin. As always, if you are a parent keen to become involved in this exciting chapter of the school’s development, give me a call!
We are welcoming a Chinese delegation from Shanghai in March 2010, following on from our successful visit to the Yang fan school in October 2008. Mr. Chen, the Headteacher, will be part of the group coming to Derbyshire and we would like to welcome him and his colleagues for what we anticipate will be a very interesting and fruitful visit. We have also made contact with the Nova Vista school in Cape Town, South Africa, and the Headteacher recently met Mrs. Peta Johnson while visiting schools in the Cape Town area. Once again we are looking forward to working with another very interesting international partner, perhaps to welcome a visit from them in the near future!
OFSTED came, and were duly impressed. If you want to take a look at what they said, see the ‘Read Reports’ page