Market Drayton Infant and Nursery School
Extracts from the Ofsted Report:
‘The pupils’ love of learning is evident in every classroom, from the playgroup to Year 2. The pupils are not only well prepared for the next stage in their education, but are eager to embrace it, confident in the skills they have learned and with high aspirations.’Text box content
‘Respect is the central theme in the school’s outstanding approach to behaviour management. Pupils learn to respect their teachers and each other, to listen and to take turns. ’Text box content
‘Since the last inspection, the headteacher has driven improvements in the quality of teaching and the pupils’ achievement. She has successfully shared her high expectations with staff, parents and pupils. Inadequate teaching has been eradicated and…teaching is consistently good.’Text box content
‘The pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding and makes a significant contribution to their experience of school and their understanding of the world. ‘Text box content
‘The governors have a strong commitment to the headteacher’s vision of a school based on respect, high expectations and parental involvement. They know the school well as a result of individual governors being linked to different areas of its work. ‘Text box content
Views of Parents
As a school, we are very proud of the involvement parents have in school life. Through out the year we offer a range of opportunities for parents to come and visit the school, for example, parent workshops, open events and parents evenings. Each year we also ask parents to complete a questionnaire to give feedback about the school. The information gathered allows us to gather the thoughts of parents and carers.
Feedback from Parents and Carers
In the summer term we gather the views of parents and put them together. This is valuable information from parents about the school. The attached documents give a summary of the outcomes the past 4 years.
Thank you for taking the time to come to the workshops. The feedback is really positive and, as a result, there are three workshops offering the ten week course running.
Feedback from Understanding Your Child Workshops
What is phonics?
Phonics consists of teaching the skills of segmenting and blending, the alphabetic code and an understanding of how this is used in reading and spelling. Simply put, it is hearing the sounds in a word and writing them down to spell it correctly. When reading, it is sounding out a word and sticking the sounds back together to read the whole word.
When children start in Reception each class do a workshop where the child and parent learn phonics alongside one another. These documents give the feedback from each class.
Feedback from the Phonics Workshops
As the children move into year two, they are starting to take a closer look at spelling and how they can apply their phonics knowledge to help them to spell. The children are also learning all types of grammar, for example, they are learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives. This workshop gives an introduction to parents about how spelling is taught and the different aspects of grammar that children need to learn.
Feedback from Parents
Staff and Pupil Views
We also listen to our children and staff who are in our school every day!
Check out what they had to say.
