Special Reading Week Challenges

• Theatre visit 🎭 for Years 3, 4 and 5

  Thu 28 Nov 2019 Mr. O’Connell

  The children and staff have all enjoyed their trip to the theatre this afternoon to watch a pantomime production of ‘Sleeping Beauty’.

   

  For many of children it was their first trip to a theatre and a pantomime. 
   

  All of 181 children and 21  adults enjoyed the acting, singing and drama. 

  

• Latest photos from Year 6 at Whitehall

  Thu 21 Nov 2019
  

• November newsletter

  Thu 21 Nov 2019 Mr. O'Connell

  Our latest newsletter is now available on the All Saints' website and has been sent to all parents via ParentMail.

   

  The November newsletter includes:

   

  • Information/reminders about admissions to both the Infant school and the Junior school. You can find more information online.
  • A copy of diary dates for the rest of the term;
  • Information following the parental consultation on the proposed Relationship & Sex education curriculum;
  • Good news regarding our PTFA. It has been wonderful to see children across both schools take great delight in using the new libraries - thank you for all of your fundraising and hard work last year.
  • Information about our governors.

   

  Please do take time to check out the photos on your child/ren's class blogs. These can be accessed from the All Saints' homepage.

   

  Many thanks for your support,

   

  Mr. O'Connell

• Year 6 at Whitehall

  Wed 20 Nov 2019 Mr. O'Connell

  Year 6 have settled well at Whitehall.

   

  Mr. Clark has sent through the following pictures and you view more on the Year 6 blog.

   

  The children are all settled, highly excited and it's lovely to see the children flourishing.

   

  Thank you to our staff from the Infant and Junior school, as well as one of our governors, for giving up their time, to enable this trip to happen 

  

• Parent governor election results

  Mon 18 Nov 2019 Mr. O'Connell

  Dear parents,

   

  Many thanks to those of you who voted in the parent governor election. We received 278 votes across both the Infant and Junior sites for our two candidates.

   

  I am delighted to share with you that Miss. N. Carline has been elected as our new parent governor for All Saints' CE Federation. Miss. Carline has several children at All Saints'. Miss. Carline is the pastoral manager at Anthony Gell school, where she supports attendance, safeguarding and the wellbeing of the children.

   

  The staff and I look forward to using Miss. Carline's experience and insight as we further strengthen our new Early Help offer and develop our pastoral work.

   

  You can find out more about the work of All Saints' governors on our website: www.allsaintsfed.derbyshire.sch.uk/governors/

   

  Many thanks,

   

  Mr. O'Connell

• Year Group Newsletters - Autumn Term 2

  Fri 08 Nov 2019

  Parents should have received our individual year group newsletters today, via ParentMail.

   

  All of the newsletters, for each year group, are available on our website.

   

  We hope you find them useful.

   

  Many thanks,

   

  Mr. O'Connell

• Relationship and sex education consultation

  Fri 08 Nov 2019 Miss. Harcup

  Dear Parents/Carers,

   

  As you are aware, over the past few months we have been working hard at All Saints’ to establish a progressive curriculum which meets legal requirements for the soon to be statutory, Relationships Education programme. With the help of all members of the community, through the use of open discussions, parent forums and surveys, we have created both a policy and proposed curriculum for Relationships and Sex Education.

   

  Why are we including sex education into our Relationships Education programme at All Saint’s Federation?

  From September 2020, Relationships Education will be a compulsory subject in all schools. Although Sex Education is optional in the primary phase, we believe our proposed curriculum will provide children will a safe space and opportunities to explore the changes they will face as they grow and develop. Additionally, a survey which took place in April 2019 found that of the parents/carers who responded, 95.3% were happy for the school to deliver Sex Education in a sensitive and age-appropriate manner.

   

  What additional information and topics are we teaching?

  Through consultations will all members of the school community, we have agreed to teach no more than what was previously covered at All Saints’ Federation. However, Sex Education teaching and learning is now woven into our proposed progressive curriculum throughout each year group as opposed to previously being taught solely in Year 5. The proposed content can be found in our progressive curriculum. Sex Education content is highlighted in yellow to ensure complete transparency.

   

  We believe it is important that the content covered reflects the needs and wishes of the community and have therefore attached the proposed documents to this letter. This gives you the opportunity to read through them both and ensure the content is suitable. If you agree with the content, please can you respond to the ParentMail which has been sent out to all parents today.

   

  Thank you for your continued engagement and support as we work together to create a curriculum which supports the children of All Saints’.

   

  Yours sincerely,

   

   

   

  Miss. Harcup

  RSE Lead

• Friday 15th November - Coffee Morning hosted by Amy Rickards, Family Support Worker, at St Josephs School from 9am until 10am.

  Tue 05 Nov 2019

  On Friday 15th November there will be a Coffee Morning hosted by Amy Rickards, our Family Support Worker, at St Josephs School from 9am until 10am. Sam Jones from CAMHS will be attending the meeting and will be discussing Anxiety. All parents and carers are very welcome to attend.

   

  Amy is hoping to run one of these coffee morning sessions, with different speakers, every half term and will rotate around the schools in the local area.

• All Saints' admission arrangements consultation

  Mon 04 Nov 2019

  All Saints' admission arrangements 2021-2022

   

  We are currently consulting on our admission arrangements for the academic year 2021-2022. This includes a change to our over-subscription criteria.

   

  Please visit our admissions page for full details.

  https://www.allsaintsfed.derbyshire.sch.uk/admissions/

• 2020 Prospective Parents Meeting

  Sun 03 Nov 2019
  Prospective Parents meeting at the Infant site on  Monday 11th November at 13.30. No need to book. We look forward to seeing you.