Dear Parents and Carers,

It was wonderful to see so many of you pop into school last week for our very first Open Afternoon. We hope you enjoyed having the opportunity to have a look through your child’s learning with them. We will plan another session like this in the summer term, but will have an Open Morning when you can pop in at the beginning of the school day. By varying the timings of when we offer parent’s events, we hope to be able to cater for many of you as we know how difficult it can be with working patterns.

This week is National Storytelling week and, on Wednesday, we welcomed a story-teller to our school. He led a whole school assembly and led storytelling workshops in our Year 3 and Year 5 classes. Inspiring our children’s language through storytelling is a key aspect of our approach to the teaching of writing at Mabe, so this was a fantastic opportunity. In addition to Storytelling week, today we are celebrating all things to do with Maths and Number as it is the NSPCC Number Day. We launched our Number day with a special assembly from Mrs Pearce, and in classes we have based our day looking at Maths through storybooks.

On Tuesday, we were visited at school by Mr Middlemore, who is the Deputy CEO of our Trust – Kernow Learning. He is the lead for school improvement in our Trust and visits each of our 21 schools to support with our curriculums and quality of teaching.

This was an extremely positive day at Mabe and, in his report to us, he identified the following strengths:

-Behaviour for learning is typically strong.

-The school’s curriculum is in scope and ambitious.

-Teacher’s have high expectations of all pupils

-Pupils’ presentation is sharp.

-The very large proportion of pupils are making strong progress.

-Pupils are clearly engaged in the wider curriculum and are making positive progress across a range of subjects

Our next steps to continue to improve our provision here at Mabe is to:

-Carefully consider how and when we are assessing to ensure that key learning is revisited at a point in time so that leaders are confident that pupils know more and, in turn, remember more overtime.

I spent the day with Mr Middlemore visiting classes, looking in books and talking to the children. It was a real pleasure to see such high quality of learning taking place, and the children were so articulate when talking about their learning. I am a very proud Headteacher!

With my very best wishes

Mrs Stevens

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