HOLIDAY

 The Library at Clifton Green School

At Clifton Green we believe the library is a very important part of children’s learning.  Mrs Brookes, our TA Librarian leads a team of pupil librarians and runs a Library club. Thank you to some library users who have sent their thoughts about the library to the website.

 Mrs Calverley – Library Manager

Welcome to Clifton Green Primary School Library .

I think library is a fantastic place to be. We have thousands of books to read and borrow. I’m the school librarian and I’m here to help anyone find and choose from our wonderfully stocked shelves. I have some wonderful assistants.

The Year 5 librarians are great at keeping the Library tidy and doing lots of useful jobs.

The Network Library club: meets on a Wednesday after school each week to improve their library skills, to have fun and eat biscuits.

Parents group:  A group of lovely parents meet on a Thursday morning to mend books and help with the cataloguing of new stock.

Please feel free to pop in and enjoy what we believe is the treasure store of the school! 

Mrs Brookes

Here's a selection of what the pupils say about our wonderful library.....

The following article appeared in our website two years ago and continues to be as true now as it was then......

Clifton Green School Library.

We are very proud of our Library which is fully automated  and run largely by our older pupils.

 It is well stocked with the latest fiction and non- fiction for both infants and juniors and all classes are taught library skills. The library catalogue is networked to the classrooms to help with curriculum work.

 Pupils are encouraged to borrow books to take home on a regular basis. In addition to the books to support the curriculum, the love of reading is fostered with children’s favourites from classics and poetry to Where’s Wally and Harry Potter. Many books are purchased in response to children’s requests.

 The book choice has recently been expanded to include more read - together books for the Nursery children and their parents.

Details of our Library are now featured on the Micro Librarian System Website as a good case study
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Advanced Inclusion Award for Clifton Green.

Well done everyone including Mrs Taylor, the School’s Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator who worked with Mrs Audsley to put together the evidence needed for the assessment!

Calling all budding musicians!

Would you like to learn to play an instrument, the piano, the violin, the guitar or the trumpet? We have peripatetic music teachers visiting school weekly willing to teach you.

Please see Mrs. Illing if you would like to apply for lessons. It is most likely that you will learn in a group of 4 children. Instruments are available on loan free of charge for the first term. Learning an instrument is a challenge but well worth the effort!

For your convenience this information is on the website in PDF form which allows you to download the sheets if you have lost your copy sent with the paper newsletter in September 2007
Click on the links below

Pupil Data

School Procedure and Safety

Rules for responsible Internet Use

School Clubs Detail and Parent Permission Form

Use of Images Consent Form

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ON THE SCHOOL PROFILE

Also click the button below to see the most recent OFSTED report

Hard copies of the profile and the OFSTED report (Nov 2005) are available from the school office

The York Inclusion Awards to recognise Inclusive Practice in Schools

Last Friday, 15 June 2007, the school was successfully assessed for the York Inclusion Certificate and was recommended to proceed next term towards gaining an advanced award.

To prepare for the first award, the school had to evaluate its own practice against official standards to consider if the provision and well being of the pupils are of the best quality. The school also evaluated how well it deploys its resources to meet the excellent provision and whether pupils, parents, staff and governors are fully consulted on school matters.

The School Council, a number of pupils and some leading teachers and teaching assistants were interviewed by the assessors and the feedback received was extremely good: all pupils and staff feel fully involved in school life and that everyone at Clifton Green aims to do their very best.

           Thank you to those who helped the school to gain this Special Award. 

Next term, the school will be evaluating how well it manages attendance and behaviour; the quality of provision of the curriculum in learning and teaching; and the achievement in pupil progress. The school will also appraise the leaders and managers in the school against the Inclusion Standards. 

The School’s Statement

This School will ensure that each day the children will know more, understand more and will be able to do more than they could the day before.

This School believes that there is a strong association between the standards of pupil achievement and the quality of teaching.

The teachers in this School have high expectations of the pupils and aim to provide the best opportunities for the children’s learning.

Every Child Matters - the School’s Aims

The Children’s Act 2004 recognises that the key to well-being in childhood and later life is-

·         Being healthy

·         Staying safe

·         Enjoying and achieving

·         Making a positive contribution

·         Achieving economic well-being

These five outcomes are for all children. In this school, it is our fundamental intention that we will help EACH CHILD realise his / her maximum potential through providing a curriculum and a school environment that enables each child to achieve the five outcomes and by doing so narrow the gap between those children who do well and those who do not.

Our aims

ü Being healthy –

To promote healthy choices in the learning and teaching programmes that address:-

·         Physical health

·         Mental and emotional health

·         Sexual health

·         Healthy lifestyles

·         Drug education - choose not to take illegal drugs

ü Staying safe –

To provide a safe, secure, caring and stable environment for the children to feel:-

·         Happy and contented.

·         Safe from bullying and discrimination.

·         Safe from anti-social behaviour and crime in and out of the school.

·         Safe from accidental injury and death.

·         Protect those children who are mal-treated, neglected, exposed to violence and sexual exploitation. 

ü Enjoying and achieving

To support the children’s learning so that they are:-

·         Ready for school.

·         Attend and enjoy school.

·         Achieve stretching educational standards in school so that they transfer to secondary school able to further develop their standards of achievement.

·         Feel encouraged by the school and by the parents through maintaining a strong home-school partnership where regular communications exist, and there are good opportunities for parents to be involved and helped to support their child’s learning.

·         Feel supported by staff, governors and others connected to the school by being listened to when planning and assessment of needs are being considered.

ü Making a positive contribution

To promote positive behaviour and working collaboratively with the parents we will help the children to:-

·         Develop self confidence and successfully deal with significant life changes and challenges.

·         Engage in law-abiding behaviour in and out of school.

·         Learn a sound moral code of behaviour and ethics in which courtesy, good manners, caring and consideration for others are very important qualities.

·         Engage in decision-making about the community and the environment through promoting positive links with people and groups working in and for the community.

·         Develop enterprising behaviour and positive attitudes about learning.

·         Feel there is equality of opportunity for all children.

·         Feel a sense of pride in their achievements.

ü Achieving economic well-being

To support the children’s families to be economically active we will:-

·         pledge to develop good partnerships with other agencies who work with the children and their families to make effective inter-agency work

·         help all children prepare for working life through our learning and teaching programmes, including those children with learning difficulties, disabilities and looked after children.

Our Curriculum Aims

This school will uphold the Primary Strategy of Excellence and Enjoyment to ensure every child succeeds through developing the core principles of learning and teaching effectively

• Building on what learners already know
• Making learning vivid and real
• Making learning an enjoyable and challenging experience
• Enriching the learning experience
• Promoting assessment for learning

·         Using target setting as an effective tool for monitoring and challenging achievement and attainment

Examples

1.       To nurture an enjoyment and understanding of literacy and to develop an ability to communicate with others in an appropriate manner.

2.       To nurture an enjoyment and understanding of mathematics

3.       To develop skills, knowledge and curiosity in science.  

4.       To raise awareness, appreciation and understanding of local, national and international cultures and environmental issues, through historical, geographical and religious education studies.

5.       To provide an enjoyment and appreciation of creative and physical activities

through the teaching of drama, dance, gymnastics, 2 and 3 dimensional art and music.

6.       To teach basic recreational games skills and rules and to try and foster good sportsmanship and a healthy attitude towards competition.

7.       To prepare children for the technological demands facing them in the 21^st century by improving skills and knowledge in I.C.T. and teach how they might be utilised as efficient tools of communication.

8.     To provide children with the knowledge to make informed decisions about their own health and welfare. 

9.       To use homework regularly in an effective way to consolidate learning and strengthen home-school links.

This is Clifton Green School Publication Scheme

on information available under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

The governing body is responsible for maintenance of this scheme.

1.         Introduction: what a publication scheme is and why it has been developed

One of the aims of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (which is referred to as FOIA in the rest of this document) is that public authorities, including all maintained schools, should be clear and proactive about the information they will make public.

To do this we must produce a publication scheme, setting out:

·                The classes of information which we publish or intend to publish;

·                The manner in which the information will be published; and

·                Whether the information is available free of charge or on payment.

The scheme covers information already published and information which is to be published in the future.  The information in our publication scheme is available in paper form.

Some information which we hold may not be made public, for example personal information.

This publication scheme conforms to the model scheme for schools approved by the Information Commissioner.

2.         Aims and Objectives        

The school aims to:

• enable every child to fulfil their learning potential, with education that meets the needs of each child,

·         help every child develop the skills, knowledge and personal qualities needed for life and work,

and this publication scheme is a means of showing how we are pursuing these aims.

3.         Categories of information published

The publication scheme guides you to information which we currently publish (or have recently published) or which we will publish in the future. This is split into categories of information known as ‘classes’. These are contained in section 6 of this scheme. 

The classes of information that we undertake to make available are organised into four broad topic areas:

School Prospectus – information published in the school prospectus.

Governors’ Documents – information published Governing Body documents.

Pupils & Curriculum – information about policies that relate to pupils and the school curriculum.

School Policies and other information related to the school - information about policies that relate to the school in general.

4.         How to request information

If you require a paper version of any of the documents within the scheme, please contact the school by telephone, email, fax or letter. Contact details are set out below.

Email: cliftongreenprimary@york.gov.uk

Tel: 01904 627270

Fax: 01904 655841

Contact Address:

Clifton Green Primary School, Kingsway North, Clifton, York, YO30 6JA

To help us process your request quickly, please clearly mark any correspondence “PUBLICATION SCHEME REQUEST” (in CAPITALS please)

If the information you’re looking for isn’t available via the scheme you can still contact the school to ask if we have it.

5.         Paying for information

Information published on our website is free, although you may incur costs from your Internet service provider. If you don’t have Internet access, you can access our website using a local library or an Internet café.

Single copies of information covered by this publication are provided free unless stated otherwise in section 6. If your request means that we have to do a lot of photocopying or printing, or pay a large postage charge, or is for a priced item such as some printed publications or videos we will let you know the cost before fulfilling your request. Where there is a charge this will be indicated by a £ sign in the description box.

THE CURRICULUM DURING 2006/2007

TOPICS TO BE COVERED BY THE FOUNDATION STAGE THIS YEAR

The teachers will focus on developing the Early learning Goals through the following areas of learning:-

·         Personal, Social and Emotional Development

·         Communication, Language and Literacy

·         Mathematical Development

·         Knowledge and Understanding of the World

·         Physical Development

·         Creative Development

These will be covered through the following Topics:-

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