Thank you all so much for your support and trust this year.

As a school, and on a personal level, we thank you for your continued support.

It has been another strange but rewarding year. We are proud of all the achievements and determined for further success next year.

In my last newsletter I stated that pupils in year 3 and 4 will not be allowed to walk home on their own next year. Please make arrangements for them to be collected in September.

We wish our Year 6 leavers the best of luck, and hope they continue to flourish.

Some highlights include visits to the farm and digging for worms, Wrekin forest school in the rain, jumping in a lake at love to stay, Rock Climbing up mountains, and the many shows (esp Christmas children of the world).

In Hope, Friendship and Perseverance.

See you at 8:30 on Tuesday 5th September.

Mr Fox and all of the Donnington TEAM.

Prospectus for next year: prospectus-23-24-v1.pdf (wordpress.com)

Website: Donnington Wood Church of England Junior School – Together Everyone Achieves More

Curriculum Maps: Start Your Journey With Us – Donnington Wood Church of England Junior School

Holiday Dates 2023/24: holiday-dates-2023-2024-with-pd-days-.pdf (wordpress.com)

Early Date: Friday 22nd September Open afternoon for all families.

Christmas Concerts are on the Thursday and Friday 14th and 15th December!

Christmas Dinner!! Wednesday 20th December

We break up Thursday 21st December!!!

Last letter.pdf

End of term Letter 1

END OF YEAR.pdf

Good Morning all, please see our Ofsted report: Donnington Wood CofE Voluntary Controlled Junior School – Open – Find an Inspection Report – Ofsted

We love the introduction: The school’s values of ‘building friendships, encouraging perseverance, and inspiring hope’ permeate through the school. Staff and pupils are proud of their school. Parents and carers receive lots of support to make sure that pupils attend school regularly; this is a real success. Pupils feel safe and well supported. Staff provide a warm welcome to parents and pupils at the start of each day. Families are appreciative of the wide-ranging support that staff provide.

It goes on to state:

• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are identified swiftly. Leaders ensure that the right provision is in place to support pupils with SEND.
• The mathematics curriculum has been redeveloped recently. Leaders have carefully considered the important knowledge and skills they want pupils to learn and when. This work is having a positive impact.
• Leaders have identified the important concepts and knowledge that they want pupils to learn in each subject and how this knowledge will build over time.
• Leaders have made sure that reading is a high priority. They promote it through fun events, including inviting pupils into school in their pyjamas to ‘curl up with a good book’. Most pupils enjoy reading both at school and at home. consistent approach to teaching reading comprehension has been introduced and this is taught well. Pupils receive extra support to catch up in reading when needed. This is having a positive impact. Leaders introduced a new reading scheme to encourage pupils to read at home. Due to improvements in the teaching of reading, pupils are reading with increasing confidence, accuracy and fluency.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
• Pupils learn about healthy lifestyles and relationships. They take part in extra-curricular clubs, including basketball, football and dodgeball. Pupils value learning to play musical instruments, such as the guitar and keyboard. They take part in a range of class and whole-school performances each year. Pupils understand that others may have different beliefs and opinions to their own, and they respect these differences.

They have asked us to look further:

• The curriculum has recently been redeveloped. In some subjects, the sequence of learning is not well planned. Some staff do not have the expertise needed to teach all aspects of the curriculum effectively. Leaders should ensure that important concepts and knowledge are organised and taught in a clear sequence over time for all subjects. They should ensure that staff have the necessary expertise to teach the whole curriculum as they intend so that pupils, including those with SEND, achieve well.

We have challenged this remark, as it basically reflected on the history teaching that afternoon on 4 lessons, and although they changed some of the wording, we have not been able to overturn it.

We felt it also contradicted itself many times as earlier states: As a result, most pupils with SEND achieve well.

We have lots of plans for this target, and have already started implementing it, including working with other schools.

We thank you for your continued support.

Mr Fox

reading day letter july 23 (1) (2).pdf

Strike Action Wednesday 5th and Friday 6th July

Due to strike action we will need to severely restrict pupil access to school this week.

We will only be open to the most vulnerable and critical workers:

We will contact Vulnerable families today to invite them in, and Critical Workers need to book a place by TUESDAY 4th by 1pm via Parent Pay.

Please see the list: Critical Worker places are only available for those that have no one else to care for them on the days. Please let us know which day you require.

Vulnerable children and young people, and critical workers – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

To find out why there is strike action, please see National News.

Thursday is normal

Mr Fox

Draft Prospectus for Transition

Prospectus 23-24 V1.pdf

Free Cricket!!!!!!!

In Donnington.

Donnington Community Camp Poster.pdf

Community Camps 2023.pdf

Club Camps 2023.pdf

NEXT WEEK

Transition day plans

We are very excited that next week we will be preparing for transition to next year’s new classes. We do this in line with our vision that every child can be given the opportunity to flourish and our core values of inspiring hope, developing perseverance and building friendship. Pupils will meet their staff for next year and spend time in their new classroom.

Monday 3rd July: Your child will arrive at normal time and go to their normal current class. At the end of the day, they will leave from their current class as usual.

We will send a letter home with the new classes for 2023-24 on this Monday. Please note their new teacher and classroom.

Tuesday 4th July: Your child will go directly to their new class. At the end of the day, they will leave via their new class at 2.45pm. If collecting your child, please ensure you know where they will be.

Children should come in school uniform on both days. (Not PE Kit – Year 5 note for Tuesday!)

Strike Days

Wednesday 5th July and Friday 7th July

The NEU have announced two strike days next week. Unfortunately, like on previous occasions, I do not know yet in what capacity we can open the school. Please plan for your child to remain at home on these two days, and I will let you know more details later this week.

If we can open for ‘Vulnerable pupils’ (EHCP/supported pupils) and children of Key workers, you will need to contact the school to plan arrangements. We will our send our plans out later this week.

Thursday 6th July

We will be holding a Science Day on Thursday 6th. Pupils will be in this year’s classes for this day.