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Principal’s Report to Governors

July 2016

Our highly successful Tennis competition winners!!

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My report will be based around:

1) Linking to the current Academy Improvement Plan. 2) Headings of our Self Evaluation Form. 3) Reports from Sports Premium, Gifted and Talented, Pupil Premium, School Council

and SEN. 4) Reported incidents.

1) Academy Improvement Plan

There is an updated Academy Improvement Plan which has the progress of the Key Target Action Plans evaluated. The Key Targets are: -Improving Mathematics -Improving Writing -Progress of Groups -Improvement of the Learning Environment -Development of Social and Spiritual Learning Each Key Target is being led by a teacher. All the staff have a responsibility to work on one Key Target for whole Academy improvement. During one staff meeting this term, updates were given on Key targets 3, 4 and 5. This was to enable staff to understand the progress made on all the Targets. The Academy Improvement Plan will be updated and closed before the Autumn half term 2016, in preparation for working on the new AIP after half term.

2) SEF HEADINGS

Effectiveness of Leadership and Management

-On the latest Academy Improvement Partner visit, Leadership and Management was seen as ‘good’. Please refer to the Report 5 from the AIP.

-Budget for the end of 2015-16 is in the process of lock down. The Budget for 2016-17 has been approved by the Resources committee.

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-The ‘Principal Pop In’ continues to allow parents to meet, ask or query any issues.

-The Principal and Vice Principal continue to meet within the locality SALT meetings. The locality secondary heads have been invited along now to discuss the arrangements for transition and assessment.

-Our 4 NQT’s are progressing well in their final term. Both the Vice Principal and Principal were engaged in joint lesson observations for them. All were successful. Final reports will be written to the award body, West Sussex County Council, to confirm that they have all been successful in their NQT year.

-Staffing news. We are very proud to announce that Melissa Foley, Charlotte Griffiths and Michelle Hall will be joining us in September 2016. Melissa and Charlotte are both NQT’s, while Michelle has been teaching for 4 years already. A replacement for Paul Buckland has not been successful, so the advert is now running until Friday 8th July. Deborah Charrington has joined the Office team this term and has settled in very well!

-The New Entrants evening took place for the parents of new children in September 2016. This proved a very successful event with special thanks going to the PTA for drinks, PowerPoint and special biscuits!

-School as a complete compliment of teachers ready for September 2016. Due to budgetary constraints, the CPD teacher will not be an option for 2016-17.

-The Principal, Vice Principal and SENCO attend the appropriate locality SALT meetings. Future projects are a continuation of the NQT program and a directory of expertise. The Principal is now the locality leader for Literacy.

-The first ‘Risk Management Group’ met and drew up the Risk Register. This has been sent to the Trust and shared with the Resources Committee.

-The Trust are organising a new Peer Review Moderation timetable for the next Academic year. Dates are to be confirmed.

-Head teacher’s Declaration Form for the Year 1 Phonics Check, KS1 SATs and Year 6 SAT week have been sent off before the national deadline.

-Academy has met with Chartwells regarding the new 5 year contract starting in September. Regular contact and communication will be the key to this success.

-Tuesday 5th July saw strike action by the NUT. 6 classes were affected. The Academy was partially open. Transition to Oathall continued along with the nursery visits for Early Years, however, our own internal transition was postponed to the following Tuesday.

-Numbers on roll

Class Name Total Spaces RJC Hazel 30 RKA Chestnut 30 RNC Willow 30 1CW Cherry 30 1HB Apple 29 1

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1JR Pear 30 2LD Holly 30 2JP Rowan 30 2SO Maple 30 3SG Silver Birch 30 3JG Copper Beech 30 4HF Lime 26 4RI Laurel 25 4EB Pine 25 5JS Palm 25 5RCo Cedar 24 1 5RC Juniper 25 6RA Elm 32 6HA Oak 29 540

Staff CPD

Date Staff Details 22/6/16 Deborah Charrington SIMS training 23/6/16 Lorraine Pellet De-escalation training 28/6/16 Helen Dixon SENCO case study day 1/7/16 Helen Dixon SENCO conference 5/7/16 Helen Dixon ‘Calm Children’

Quality of Teaching, Learning and Assessment

- On the latest Academy Improvement Partner visit, Teaching, Learning and Assessment was seen as ‘good’. Please refer to the Report 5 from the AIP.

-We had a West Sussex County Council Moderation visit to ensure our Phonics check was been stored and administered correctly. Passed!

-Curriculum activities and key dates since last report

DATE YEAR GROUP

ACTIVITY

9-19May YR staff visiting nurseries to meet September intake 16-20May Y5 business week for financial capability topic

16-May Y2 cake sale for financial capability topic 17-May Y1 visit to Wilderness Wood 19-May Y6 IOW information evening for parents 20-May Y2 seaside themed day

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23-May PP visit to Barratt Homes building site 24-May Y5 peer mediator assembly, then sessions weekly on Thursdays 24-May small group locality maths competition at Bolnore Village School 07-Jun Y2 visit to Sea Life Centre & Volks Railway, Brighton 08-Jun Y5 year group visit to Oathall for Y10 sports leader event 09-Jun EY new parents information evening

13-17Jun Y6 residential visit to the IOW 13-17Jun Y1 phonics screening

13-Jun Y2 seaside music workshops 14-Jun Y4 visit to Dapdune Wharf & the River Wey 14-Jun YR health screening by NHS School Health Assistants

13-23Jun EY storytimes for new intake 15-Jun Y2 village walk 16-Jun street

dance club performed to KS1 Assembly

16-Jun School Council

Council of councils

17-Jun 15 x Y5 Science show at Claire Hall 17-Jun whole

school guitar group performance in assembly

20-Jun whole school

non uniform day for PTA donations for summer fair

20-Jun whole school

WS Library service summer reading challenge assembly

22-Jun whole school

violin group performance in assembly

22-Jun PP Phunky Foods healthy eating workshop 22-Jun School

Council visit from Bewbush School Council

24-Jun whole school

recorder group performance in assembly

Pupil development, behaviour and welfare

- On the latest Academy Improvement Partner visit, pupil development, behaviour and welfare was seen as ‘good’. Please refer to the Report 5 from the AIP.

- The Academy Improvement Partner completed a Safeguarding Audit on her last visit. The outcome of which was ‘good’.

-Clubs continue to take place across the Academy providing a wide range of activities for our children.

-The Academy played an active role in the Lindfield Village Day Procession with children making props in class and then using them on the day. The Academy worked closely with the PTA.

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-Special note must be mentioned to the very successful year Lindfield Primary Academy has had in sports. Please see the report from Mr Ireland at the end of this document.

-Year 6 embarked on their annual island adventure. The children enjoyed a wide variety of activities including: exploring Carisbrooke Castle, hunting for fossils, studying dinosaurs, surfing the waves whilst body boarding, bowling, discovering hidden treasures at Robin Hill and most importantly competing at Head Hunters (Lazer Quest). As usual, we received a number of compliments regarding the children’s excellent behaviour and manners. An amazing time was had by all.

-Year 5 and 6 Relationship and Health Education has been organised and will take place later in the term.

-Lindfield Primary Academy is still buying into the FACS project. Children are still being referred to Emma Bannister.

-West Sussex are advertising for a school crossing patrol after an assessment of the site. Position will be appointed soon.

-A range of activities to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme took place on Friday 1st July, ending in a 100 sec silence at 11am.

-Attendance

2/9/14-22/6/15 2/9/15-22/6/16 SESSIONS % SESSIONS % ATTENDANCES

164169 96.5 172352 95.1 AUTH. ABENCES

5345 3.1 4767 2.6 UNAUTH.ABENCES

612 0.4 839 0.5 POSSIBLE ATTENDANCE

170126 181211

APPROVED EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY

2448 1.4 2522 1.4

LATES BEFORE REG CLOSED

709 0.4 783 0.4

UNEXPLAINED ABSENCES

0 0 0 0

-Authorised absences include medical appointments, illness, sporting activities etc.

-We are currently below our target of 96% attendance (95.1%). This is due to the amount of holidays that are happening. We are currently discussing the introduction of fines as a deterrent to stop the attendance falling and have contacted the Trust for guidance regarding codes for the register.

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Outcomes for children and learners

- On the latest Academy Improvement Partner visit, Achievement was seen as ‘good’. Please refer to the Report 5 from the AIP.

-Pupil Progress Meetings have evolved to match the needs of the Academy. Meetings are more efficient and focused, backed up with data analysis. Teachers now complete a form with clear actions on for the SLT. Pupil Premium children were highlighted. This term, there will be two Pupil Progress meetings. One at the beginning of the term and one will take place at the end of the school year.

-Progress over the year so far for our children

Age related expectation Term 5 from data off Target Tracker

Year group Working below expectation

Working at or above expectation

Working above expectation

EYRS 21.1% 78.9% 0% 1 56.7% 43.3% 8.9% 2 58.9% 41.1% 6.7% 3 40.0% 60.0% 1.7% 4 38.2% 61.8% 34.2% 5 33.3% 66.7% 17.3% 6 63.9% 36.1% 13.1%

-Attainment from end of year 2015-16

Early Years

14/15 15/16 TARGET/NATIONALGLD 47% 79% 70%/66%

Year 1 Phonics

PASSMARK3276/89 85% LAST

YEAR/TARGET/NATIONAL84%/83%/77%

Year 2 SATS

TeacherAssessment

Workingatandgreaterdepthcombined

ActualSATS

Originaltarget

Maths 82% 74% 88%Reading 83% 80% 87%Writing 71% 69%GPS 81%Science 89% n/a n/a

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TeacherAssessment Workingtowards Workingat GreaterdepthMaths 18% 67% 15%Reading 18% 55% 27%Writing 29% 59% 12%Science 11% 89% 0%

Year 6 SATS

TEACHERASSESSMENT KS2TESTRESULTS WORKING

TOWARDSHASNOTMET REACHED

EXPECTEDSTANDARDORACHIEVEDGREATERDEPTH

NS AS NationalresultforAS

READING 0% 7% 93% 20% 80% 66%WRITING 43% 0% 57% Notest Notest NotestMATHS 0% 16% 84% 26% 74% 70%SCIENCE 0% 8% 92% Notest Notest NotestGrammar,PunctuationandSpelling

Noteacherassessment

Noteacherassessment

Noteacherassessment

21% 79% 72%

We surrender……no more Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling practice!!!

3) Reports

Sports Premium-Rupert Ireland

This year, Lindfield’s sporting aims have been to increase the participation in sport, to learn about other cultures and to ensure we are fully engaged with our locality, participating in every sporting opportunity available.

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In the Autumn term, we focused on the Rugby World Cup. Each year group was given a country to follow and the children learnt about the culture, flag and heritage of the country they were designated. This was supported by Year 3 running an intra-school competition based on elements of Tag Rugby and a Year 5 class presented their research as a class assembly – performing the Haka and explaining the history and purpose of it. We have seen participation in Tag Rugby club increase because of this and Lindfield have qualified for the County Championships after winning a competition against all other schools in the Mid-Sussex area. Our school has also focused on developing children’s understanding of the growth mindset and values based education. This has been linked to sport through assemblies looking at the Invictus Games. These have helped explain its importance, its challenges and also the mindset of athletes from different cultures and why they are determined to participate. We have run assemblies on the Olympics and linked the different elements of this event to our Team and Individual School Games Days during the Summer term. To help our children celebrate the European Football Cup this summer, our PTA have also arranged a parent/pupil football event that will be held at Lindfield Primary Academy during the Summer Term. As a school, we achieved the Gold Kite Mark for sporting success last year and we have continued this by meeting the criteria this year. One hundred percent of children in the school have participated in an intra-school competition with most year groups already running 3 or 4 events. As a school, we have run intra-school competitions over 14 different sports already this academic year. Lindfield have also taken a leading role in organising sporting events and competitions. We hosted and ran the Mid-Sussex Girls’ Football Competition and ran a hockey event for 60 Year 4 pupils at Oathall Community College. Overall, 62% of KS2 have had the opportunity to represent their school at an inter-school level across 15 different sports. We have also offered 13 different sporting clubs for children to attend and we have seen 68% of all pupils in the school attending at least one of these either before or after school. This number rises to 84% when looking at just KS2 children. This is helped by over 110 children in KS2 attending an athletics club on a Thursday or Friday after school. Our Sports Crew have taken an active role in leading 5 different sporting events throughout the year. Over 24% of KS2 have had the chance to lead a sporting activity with another year group – this has been extremely helpful when running intra-school events with those children in lower year groups. The Sports we have participated in are: Level 1 – Intra School Level 2 – Inter School Athletics Athletics Basketball Basketball Boccia Cricket (Boys’ and Girls’ events)

Football Cycling

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Goalball Golf Golf Gymnastics Gymnastics Handball Handball Hockey Netball Netball New Age Kurling New Age Kurling Rugby Union Rugby Union Multi-Skills Multi-Skills Tennis Tennis Dance Dance

Football (Boys’ and Girls’ events) Looking at the percentages of children involved, many children have had the opportunity to represent their school and we have also been extremely successful as well. Below is a list of some of the successes we have achieved: Sporting Achievements Under 11 – Boys Hayward’s Heath Champions Under 11 – Girls Hayward’s Heath Champions Under 9 – Mid-Sussex and County Tennis Champions Under 11 – Mid-Sussex Tag Rugby Champions and County Finalists Under 11 – Girls Kwik Cricket Mid-Sussex County Champs and County Finalists Under 11 – Boys Kwik Cricket County Finalists Under 10 – Mixed Kwik Cricket County Finalists Under 11 – Hardball 8 a-side Cricket County Finalists Under 11 – Quad Kids Mid-Sussex Runners Up Mixed – Sportshall Athletics Mid-Sussex Runners Up Finally, one area that we wanted to pay particularly attention to this year is the overall engagement with sport. Through our Sport Premium budget, we were able to allow two of our NQTs to observe a Change 4 Life session being run by Mid-Sussex Active. The aim of these sessions are to provide children with the opportunities to experience different sports and techniques needed in a fun game-based format. We targeted those children in Year 4 and 5 who either didn’t attend sporting clubs or for health and team spirit purposes would benefit from spending more time playing sports. Furthermore, we have had a B team represent the school in 10 inter-school events as well as 3 events where we have taken a C team as well. This will be added to over the next 3 weeks because we have 2 football matches and a cricket match for children who are yet to represent their school this year and attend sporting clubs regularly. We have found that the links we have established with local clubs in the community (Sussex Cricket Club, Mid-Sussex Hockey, Hayward’s Heath Basket Ball etc.) have helped us take more children to the events.

Pupil Premium-Rachel Crosbie

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In the month since my last report we have waved goodbye to Mrs Francis and wish her well with her maternity leave.

Ms Mascard has started working with the children in KS2; she has replaced Mrs Phillips who left for pastures new.

After a deal of planning and ground work, a series of enrichment and aspirational opportunities have been put in place. Children from Years 3, 4 and 5 visited a local building site, where they learned about the need to reduce the carbon footprint and looked at various job roles on site. The boys were particularly taken with the JCBs and the forklifts which could lift pallets of bricks higher than a house! One even remarked he was thrilled by the day as his ambition was to become an architect. The children’s enthusiasm was infectious and was captured by the camera for the Argus.

Six children were also involved in the Year 5 Science Challenge where they had to look at sustainable construction and created hen coops for the chickens in Reception. The children spoke knowledgeably to visiting dignitaries and judges from industry and are to be

congratulated on achieving 3rd prize.

All 27 children were offered the chance to participate in a Phunky Food workshop looking at the Eatwell Plate and learning about vitamins and minerals before making a Supercrunch Pudding. It was lovely to see parents and children working together.

Summer term also saw the final allocation of Forest School experience. All the children from Year 1 to Year 6 have had a series of 6 sessions with our 3 experienced staff. During these sessions they have had a variety of opportunities which include whittling, making necklaces/bows and arrows/door plaques etc. During these sessions children are able to experience elements of risk taking and be instructed in handling of tools such as drills, knives, secateurs and saws. These sessions also help build the child’s self-esteem and address many of the pastoral issues in an environment which the children feel comfortable with.

Work behind the scenes has started to compile a list of provision, this is proving time consuming but the information will be valuable as it will allow us to track interventions and progress and analyse which are most effective.

The Bursar is currently working on PP costings, so we hope to have definite figures in the immediate future. This will allow us to budget and prioritise.

Highlighting the opportunities for PP children with the new entrants has led to 4 requests so far.

An initial session on PP and what it means has been held with the TAs to help upskill them and make them more aware of this provision – this follows on from the training done for staff earlier in the year. A second session will be held in a couple of weeks.

I have met with the PP children on a regular basis and the children have chosen a name for themselves – the “Chooseday Club”, because we choose which day we meet and what we want to do. Having a group name has made communication much easier. The children are currently designing a logo for themselves.

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Future Plans

There is an impending visit to Waterstones arranged where the children will experience the life cycle of a book, learn about the role of a book seller and have the opportunity to buy a book for the summer holidays.

Kidzania has also been booked for autumn term for the Chooseday Children in KS2

There is also a free dance session arranged for autumn term and a sewing workshop.

Gifted and talented-Christine Lea/Sue Homewood In September 2015 gifted and talented mathematicians were identified by Helen Francis using data supplied by class teachers. These children have worked with Christine Lea focusing on their higher order problem solving skills. They have greatly benefitted from working alongside others who are also working at this level across the year group and in some instances across year groups, i.e. mastery with greater depth. Problem solving skills worked on have been trial and improvement, working systematically, pattern spotting, working backwards, reasoning logically, visualising and conjecturing. The children have developed their problem-solving skills by experiencing lots of contexts in which to practise each skill and have been given lots of opportunities to talk about each one.

Small groups of KS2 children have been involved in exploration of philosophical thinking and debates. They have considered a variety of viewpoints and are now aware that there is no correct answer to a question or a problem, but simply an expression of beliefs and thoughts. They have learnt that; justification of their ideas is as important as the opinions they hold; they need to listen to others and be ‘open minded’; and that questions are more important than answers. (Questions lead to discovery and learning, an open door. Answers are a closed door.)

Children are enthusiastic and declare that it has affected the way they think.

School Council-Anna Bain It has been a busy month for the School Council. On the 16th June we hosted the Council of Councils which was attended by local SALT schools School Councils. There were representatives of all ages and the children bought examples of the work they had been doing and shared good practice and ideas. Our guest speaker, Mrs. Anthea Lea, a Lindfield Parish Councilor, gave an informative talk about her role and democracy within local government. She took questions and the children really engaged in her explanations about

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her responsibilities and enjoyment of her role. There was drinks and biscuits followed by a tour of our campus.

Following this, on Wednesday 22nd June we had a visit from Bewbush School Council, a Crawley school with a very different catchment to ours. The children loved their morning at our school; there was playtime in the woods, refreshments in the library and a tour. They were inspired by our vegetable patch, School Value characters, leaver’s hoodies and class names. We have been invited to visit Bewbush next term. The enormous benefit of the hosting other schools was seeing how proud our children are of their school and by showing others our campus they reminded themselves of the wonderful range of activities and opportunities we have to offer. A great success.

Looking ahead, we have a 'Tea with the Headmaster' event scheduled for the end of term when all council and school captains meet to celebrate the past year. There will also be a house reward at the end of term for the House with the most weekly stars. Meetings continue regularly on a Thursday afternoon and minutes are published for the board and circulated to staff.

SEN-Helen Dixon

The SEN team, in collaboration with children their parents and teachers have worked extremely hard this year to identify those pupils who have a Special Educational Need, identify what their specific needs are and to provide them with the most appropriate provision to meet their needs.

The role of the Learning Mentor has developed well during the year. Lorraine Pellett is able to support not only children formally on her case load but also helps a large number of other children on a ‘drop in’ basis. Lorraine is currently supporting children with issues such as bereavement, developing emotional self-regulation, eating disorders, separation anxiety, social communication etc. Lorraine is very skilled in speaking to the children and their parents about their worries; the feedback we have received has been very positive and she has certainly made a difference to those children.

I am currently in the process of reviewing the Individual Learning Plans (ILP) with children, their parents and teachers. Once again the support from parents has been remarkable and the feedback received indicates that parents welcome the opportunity to discuss their child’s progress and attainment and feel involved in the decision making about the child’s future development. The children are fully involved in this process and are now much more able to evaluate their own strengths and needs.

There are currently 7 children in school with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an Education Health and Care Plan; one Plan is still in draft form and is awaiting parental approval before it is finalised. The requirements of the Annual Review have changed recently and we have been able to adapt processes accordingly to meet the new requirements. One hugely positive outcome has been the additional involvement of the child in their Annual Review. As Annual Reviews are now ‘person centred’ each child has shared a short power point presentation with their parents and professionals during the annual review meeting. All of these children have confident enough to talk about slide presentation giving those present a brief glimpse into what a typical day at school is like. The parents,

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professional and the Local Authority Special Needs Officer have been impressed by the children’s ability to share their presentation and this is a feature which will continue to develop next year.

It has been especially challenging to provide for the needs of those children who demonstrate their needs through challenging behaviours. These children have required 1:1 support which has been taken from other areas of the school. Indeed one child, who will attend a specialist school from September, now requires the support of two adults. The needs of these children have been identified in the staffing arrangements for next year and with the proposed changes to the structure of the role of the Teaching Assistant next year, I am hopeful that we will be able to deliver high quality targeted interventions to those children with a special educational need.

Moving forward, there are concerns regarding the loss of ASCEND who have provided invaluable support for Speech and Language, Counselling and Play Therapy. As a school we have heavily used the services ASCEND has provided and will undoubtedly feel its loss next year.

4) Reports

There have been no ‘cyber’ bullying incidents to report about.

There have been no racial incidents to report about.

There have been no Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) incidents to report about.

There has been 1 short term fixed exclusion to report about. (Year 5)

There have been two complaints dealt with and finalised this year.

5) Accidents-none recorded on c-zone as of 29/6/16

Date Ref. Details Action

Marcus Still

July 2016