Dear Parents,
As we come to the end of what has been a very busy, but very successful year in school I have a lot of people to thank. Firstly and most importantly your wonderful children who have worked so hard to make this an outstanding year. Both year 2 and year 6 pupils worked really hard for their SATs tests with our year 6 pupils exceeding expectations and achieving above National results once again. Our year 1 phonic screening test results were an improvement on last year which is a testimony to the hard work of our teachers in continuing to implement the ‘Read Write Inc’ scheme in school
Secondly to all of our staff who have worked tirelessly throughout the year to ensure the best possible outcomes for our pupils.
Thirdly and by no means last, you the parents/carers, your support throughout the year whether it be in supporting your child with work at home or supporting the school through attendance at fundraising events your continued input is invaluable in helping the school on our journey to what I expect to be an outstanding Ofsted judgement in years to come.
It was lovely to see parents/carers who attended the open evening on Monday and thank you to those parents/carers who have returned their comment slips, I haven’t had a chance to read them all as yet but am grateful for the very positive comments I have seen so far.
Sadly, we have to say goodbye to a number of staff members: Miss France is returning to Australia and Miss Havelock is going to teach in a bilingual school in Germany. Miss Semeniuck, who has been in Mexico class for the summer term is pursuing a teaching role in another school and Mrs How is going to teach art to mature students.
They all leave Mead with our very best wishes for the future.
On a more positive note we extend a warm Mead welcome to Miss Ianson who will be taking Jamaica class, Miss Hinchliffe who will work alongside Miss Highton in Chie class and Miss Cunningham who will work alongside Miss Winters in Scotland class.
Congratulations
I am sure you will all join me in wishing Lomas and her fiance all the best for their upcoming wedding. We hope that they both enjoy their wonderful wedding day and have a very happy life together.
Summer Reading activities-Get Caught Reading 2018
This year we will be running a 'Get Caught Reading' competition during the Summer Holiday. It is a competition that has typically been extremely popular at Broadford and led to some great photos of the pupils and staff.
Best picture of staff/the pupil reading - normally in a stunning location (outside Buckingham Palace, or a beach somewhere tropical... the sky's the limit) wins a book voucher. Just follow the simple steps...
- Get a good book
- Get caught reading it somewhere unusual - have your picture taken
- Send it in via the school Facebook page - or Facebook Messenger
- Add the location to the shared map: click here
- Wait for confirmation that you have won the competition!
There is also a Summer Reading Challenge Tracker for the children to complete.
Click here to access the tracker
We will be posting the links to the map and tracker on the blog/Facebook page as well - this will keep reappearing during
the holiday.
Autumn Term Dates 2018-19
5th September - Pupils return to School
Friday 20th October - Break up for half term
20th December - Last day of autumn term
Attendance Update
Our overall attendance for the year is 94.6%, just below our target of 96%: hopefully with a joint effort we will reach our target next year! Well done to Canada class who had the highest attendance for the year in Y5&6 at 96.3% . Wales had the highest attendance in LKS2 at 94.9% and Kenya had the highest attendance in KS1 also at 95%. Well done to them!
The following children have achieved 100% attendance for this academic year
Iuliana in Jamaica
Michael in Australia
Sarah and Alexander in Palau
Jolin, Milana and Ivan in Kenya
Hayden and Benjamin in Egypt
Kai and Justice in N.Ireland
Lily and Maya-Victoria in Scotland
Rebekah in Wales
Amelia, Tanisha and Alexandra in Germany
Wilson, Donald and Hannah in Greece
Jan in Mexico
Sofia and Maisie in Canada
Grace and Adedeji in U.S.A
Angel and Ryan in Argentina
Caitlin in Brazil
Very well done to you all!
Children were presented with special certificates at our end of year awards (they will get their trophies today as unfortunately there was an error with the order) to see a complete list of recipients please click
here
As this is the last Newsletter before the summer holidays I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all happy holidays. For those of you moving on to secondary school we will miss you but we know you are well prepared for the challenges you will face and you go with our very best wishes for the future. For those returning in September we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 5th September.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs L Smith
Headteacher
