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The Reception children at Vincent Road Campus were excited when the new Steinway Grand Piano arrived. Their wonderful singing filled the hall with music and Miss Shepherd lifted the Piano lid for them to see all the strings inside
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A huge thank you to all our runners and those who sponsored them. We raised an amazing total of £2054 and 72 pence!
This has been passed on to the PHSA and will go towards the brilliant events that Plumcroft puts on across the year.
Year 2 celebrated World Down Syndrome Day by wearing spotty, bright or mismatched socks. 2C performed a song using sign language. Reception at Vincent Rd are taking part tomorrow!
Pupils from Plumcroft Primary School were joined by adult volunteers outside the school gates ready to approach parents who were keeping their engines running while waiting.
On Tuesday 6th March, Plumcroft held its first Idling Action event. Idling Action events are supported by the Mayor of London and are taking place in 18 boroughs around London, with the aim of tackling unnecessary engine idling on the streets of the capital.
The even began with an assembly for the KS2 children, after which staff, children and parent volunteers talked to idling drivers on the surrounding roads and encouraged them to switch off their engines when stationary.
We feel that this type of event is important to the health and wellbeing of our school community, as air pollution has a particularly large impact on children's health. We are also mindful of the impact air pollution may have on our local community.
Weʼre raising £500 to help fund all the great events, equipment, resources and trips that help make Plumcroft an amazing school.
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Plumcroft School Band were lucky to be given a place to perform at the Music for Youth Festival at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre. Twenty of us got the train to Charing Cross with our instruments and we performed two songs - Cantaloupe Island and Seven Nation Army - Plumcroft Style. We made up our own rap to go with Seven Nation Army as part of the school poetry project.
The children have recently taken part in some great fundraising activities.
”This school continues to be good.
The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Leaders and governors know the school well and share a desire for it to make a positive impact on the life of pupils. You and your team have built a strong community that encompasses staff, parents and the wider locality.
At the heart of the school’s work is your drive to ensure that all pupils, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, succeed academically. Governors, leaders and staff share your high aspirations. This drive is matched by leaders’ ambition to widen pupils’ access to enrichment opportunities in music, dance, art and sport. This is done through a broad and balanced curriculum and strengthened by links with local colleges and arts organisations. Leaders plan the curriculum carefully taking into account the needs and interests of the pupils. Pupils are happy to come to school and value the varied opportunities that they get……
There is now a new National Curriculum and the old levels are gone, so Plumcroft has determined our own way of assessing progress and attainment. Find out how.
Levels (eg. 2B, 3C, 4B, 5A) were removed 12 months ago in September 2015 and all schools were expected to determine their own way of assessing progress and attainment. National SATs still happen at the end of Year 2 (Key Stage 1) and at the end of Year 6 (Key Stage 2), these assessed the new national curriculum for the first time in 2015/16.
At Plumcroft we completed a detailed due diligence process and in January 2015 we decided to implement the Renaissance Learning assessment systems known as STAR Reading and STAR Maths. These assessments are used by over 816,000 children in UK schools and so we have a massive national sample group against which to compare our performance in every year group from Year 2 to Year 6.
The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) mapped all STAR assessments to the new national curriculum. The Renaissance Learning systems are also used worldwide in more than 40,000 schools in over 60 countries. Their core purpose is to “accelerate learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide.”
