Headteacher: Mr Adrian Scarrett
Acting Deputy Head Teacher: Mrs Rachael O'Dell
Welcome
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School Dinners - £2.00 per day
New Friday Break Tuck Shop starting 20th April 2012.
Kitchen counter - All 20p
Fruit Ice Lolly, Fruit Cup, Fruit Juice, Flapjack.
TERM DATES FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-13
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Music Events
Thank you to everyone who attended the Music Open Evening on Thursday 22nd March. It was excellent to see the classrooms buzzing with enjoyment of creating and making music and learning new skills. Some of the technique I witnessed in the trumpet, ukulele and mini steel pans sessions were amazing.
Also, a huge thank you to those children, and adults, who performed in the mini concerts. I was really proud of the soloists and duets who played. The recorder group are making a lovely sound, ukulele club skills are developing brilliantly and the choir sounded as good as I have heard this year. Add to that the impromptu children, parents and staff steel pan group and the staff choir and the whole evening was hugely successful.
Bideford Learning Community Choir Festival and KS1 Singing Morning
Last week the choir attended the Bideford Learning Community Choir Festival at Bideford College. The BLC is comprised all the schools who feed into Bideford College, and the College itself. All the schools work increasingly closely together to create fantastic opportunities for all children in the Bideford area and this was an excellent event which showcased some of the fantastic talent that we have in our community. Over 300 children spent a day rehearsing at Woolsery Village Hall then performed in two concerts the following week.
Today Jackdaws attended the BLC Key Stage One Singing Festival. This was a similar experience for some of our younger children, with over 250 children performing to each other and together in an enjoyable morning at Woolsery.
Music is a vital part of life and learning to enjoy listening to and making music are excellent ways to develop learning and find new ways of enjoying life. So I can’t recommend strongly enough that everyone listen to, sing along with and generally play music !
Thank you for your continued support
Adrian Scarrett
Headteacher
OfSTED Inspection October 2009
On 15th and 16th October 2009 we were inspected by three inspectors from OfSTED. They look at all areas of school life, but particularly concentrated on:
The degree to which the school has improved in writing and mathematics,
Improvements in the Foundation Stage,
The effectiveness of the use of assessment to help pupils make improved progress
How well the After School Club is providing for children.
The results of the inspection were extremely positive. The judgment was that, "St. Mary's is a good school. It is improving well and has a number of notable features”. We were judged to be good in all areas (The exception was pupils' attendance, where the judgment was 'satisfactory', because the percentage was slightly below the national average.)
Therefore, this is a school with no areas of weakness, only strengths on which to build. There are two suggestions as to how to improve further: to be more consistent in the way children have opportunities for self evaluation, and to improve the opportunities for children to choose where to work and play, both indoors and outdoors, in Foundation Stage.
The whole report can be downloaded or read by clicking this link.
St. Mary's 2009 OfSTED report.
This is a link to Devon County Council for information.