B r a m p t o n P r i m a r y S c h o o l Week ending: 11.2.

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S t r i v i n g t o R e a c h t h e B e s t Spring Term: Issue 6

Brampton Bulletin

Inside this week’s issue: W H AT I S A S SE RT I V E M E N TO R I N G ?

• Assertive Mentoring
• Forthcoming Dates ‘Assertive Mentoring takes targets from the head’s desk to the
child’s head.’
• SEAL Home Activities
For a number of years now we have been providing children and
• Morning clubs parents with termly targets in reading, writing and maths. We have
• Week 1 Menu noticed that children find it difficult to remember their own targets
• Management Structure even though some of them are stuck in their desks or in their books.
Recently Miss Fisher and Miss Lambert attended a conference on
• Gold Book Entries ‘Assertive Mentoring’ and were very impressed with how a number of
• Weekly Attendance schools had managed to take the assessment and target setting
• And finally— systems that we all use and make it work for them. So much so that
they had glowing comments from Ofsted, other schools, children and
Forthcoming Dates:
parents.
Although Assertive Mentoring as a name is new, many of the
Friday 11th February components are not, which is why we decided to try it at Brampton.
Family SEAL Session 3 Year 5 trialled it last term and now we are rolling it out to Years 1-6.
Y5 British Museum It has meant more work for staff initially but once they became
Friday 18th February familiar with the way it works and fits together they have been
enthusiastic to try it with their own class. Each child will have their
Family SEAL Session 4
own Assertive Mentoring folder, in which they will keep their own
2pm Coffee afternoon- Dads basic skills work, weekly and termly maths assessments, along with
21st– 25th February examples of their best work in Literacy. When the class teacher marks
HALF TERM their work they will record the aspects achieved and note where there
are any gaps and then plan accordingly. This record keeping will
Wednesday 2nd March
enable teachers to set more relevant and personal targets. Each term
Y6 Swimming they will have a one to one interview with each child in their class to
Y3 Science Museum discuss this process with them. The system works on a traffic light
Arsenal - French Y6 approach, green for got it, amber for getting there and red for no
Thursday 3rd March
evidence yet and needs to be focused on. This information will be
shared with parents at consultation meetings and should led to a more
CRIBs in Y3 and Y1 purposeful dialogue on your child’s progress. We are very excited and
FOB Meeting committed to this
Friday 4th March system we hope
Family SEAL Session 5 the children and
parents will soon
Saturday 5th March
see the benefits
Gary Wilson Parents too!
Training at Marriot.
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S E AL H O M E A C T I V I T I E S F OR PAR E NT S T O US E - GOING FOR G OA L S

Going for goals! 7—Consequences (1)
Play the consequences game below by cutting out the cards.
Mix them up and lay them face down on the table. Take it in turns to pick up two cards.
The idea is to get the two that go together.

If I water the … they will If I am late … people at If I don’t do

plants … grow. home after home will worry. my
playing out … homework …
… I won’t do If I don’t listen … I won’t If I hit my friend … he won’t
well at school. to instructions know when he annoys be
… what to do. me … my friend
anymore.
If I climb on the … I might fall If I help out at … my mum and If I don’t go
roof to get the off home … dad will feel to
ball … and be injured. happy and have bed on time
time to play with …
me.
Consequences (2)…

… I will be tired If I am friendly ...people will like If I tidy up my … I will be

and I won't be and pleasant … me. bedroom … able
able to work to find my
properly. things.
If I don’t go … there will be If I don’t eat my … I won’t stay If I don’t wear
shopping … no food in the dinner…. healthy. my coat when
house. it is cold or
wet…

… I might get a If I help my friend ….It will make us If I work hard … I will finish
cold. when she needs it both fell happy. … my work and
… feel good.
Building Works
We are pleased to report that due to a delay beyond our control the building works will
re-commence on Monday 14tth February. During the delay some works have been going on in
Miss Bates old classroom. We look forward to seeing more speedy developments now.
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SCHOOL M EALS
W E E K B E G I N N I N G - 1 4 T H F E B RUA RY 2 0 1 1
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Meat Spaghetti Bolognaise Chicken Noodles Roast loin of Sweet Paprika Chicken Maryland Chicken
Singapore Style cure Bacon with with Rice with Chipped
Roast Potatoes & Potatoes
Gravy.

Fish or Tuna Pizza Jacket Potato with Cheesy Bubble & Salmon &
Cheese or Tuna Squeak with Home- Sweetcorn Quiche
alternative made Salsa

Vegetarian Tomato & Basil Vegetable Spaghetti Vegetable Korma Savoury French
Pasta with Rice Toast with Baked
Beans

Desserts Peaches & Fruit Cup Cake Apple & Cinnamon Banana & Chocolate Shortbread served
Strawberry Ice Wheel with Custard Loaf with Custard with Fruit Wedges
Cream

A choice of salads, seasonal vegetables, fresh bread, fresh fruit platter,

fruit yoghurt, milk and drinking water are also available daily.

Peanut Allergies
Please can we remind everyone that we are a ‘Peanut Free’ school in our cooked meals and we ask
parents not to put any nuts or items containing nuts in their child’s packed lunches. Thank you.

Parents Questionnaires
Many thanks to all the parents who recently returned parent questionnaires. We had over
around 138 responses out of 420 questionnaires sent out. This is higher than last year and
we have collated the returns and Miss Fisher is currently preparing a feed back
commentary for parents. This will be shared with all parents on completion.

Management Structure at Brampton

One parent asked on their questionnaire to know more about the management structure at
Brampton. We have a ‘Senior Leadership Team’ (SLT) consisting of Head teacher - Miss
Fisher; Deputy head- Miss Lambert; Head of Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1—Miss
Beament; Literacy Subject Leader - Mrs Stewart (acting for Mrs Perks); Maths Subject
leader Miss Mason (+ Mrs Jones) and ICT Subject Leaders job shared with Miss Cross and
Mrs Evans. We meet every Thursday after school to discuss and support the school’s
leadership direction. Our priority for 2010-2011 is to ‘further develop managers’ knowledge
and innovative leadership of teaching and the curriculum to raise standards.’ For example,
SLT are involved in producing our school development plan, school prospectus, they review
policies and relevant target setting data. Information from these meetings are fed back to
staff in our weekly staff meetings, relevant news can be shared with parents in newsletters
or to governors in their termly meetings or to the relevant sub committee meetings.
 BRAMPTON GOLD BOOK
Striving to Reach the Best Weekly Attendance
Every week we print the names of those children who have
achieved in either their work, conduct or behaviour around
school and have been entered in the Gold Book. They have
been mentioned in Monday’s celebratory assembly. After 3
mentions children receive a bronze certificate, 6 mentions for a
silver, 9 mentions for a gold, 12 mentions for a Super Gold and
15 mentions for a Platinum certificate, 18 for Diamond, 21+
for a Head teacher’s Award and 24 for a Special Head teacher
Award and Badge. Week ending11.2.11

RB—Cameron Greene 6B—Mia Sweeney

RB: 96%
RB –Maddy Baxter 6B—Megan Lee RJ: 92.4%
RB– Chloe Boyns x 2 6B –Molly Gray x 2
RB– Seb Rambarran 6B— Alicia Hall x 2 1B: 93%
RB—Joshua Lucas 6B– Cameryn Whyte
RJ– Zak Drew 6B –Tate Rayner 1BA: 95.7%
RJ –James Berry 6B– Dheen Zia 2H: 99.7%
RJ– Macey Wade 6B–Kieran Shokar
1BA– Jemma Chalmers (Bronze) 6B – Reece Courtney 2EW: 99.7%
1BA– Hope Wyatt 6B– Frankie Berrow
1BA- Spencer Woodall (Bronze) 6B– Lewis Collier 3W: 97.7%
3W– Leah Eagles 6B –Ross Ellul
3W– Molly Crawley 6B –Clark Russell 3WH: 99%
4C –Taysan Ali-Osman 6C– Sophie Cosgrove 4P: 97.7%
4P– Arwen Buckle (Platinum) 6C– Jack Potter
4P– Danny Dawkins (Super Gold) 6C– Amy Allen 4C: 94.7%
4P– Romy Ellen Hares 6C– Nicholas Huggett
4P= Billy Wheal 6C– Kiefer Buckle 5S: 97.9%
4P– Henry Rogers 6C— Hollie Glennon (Diamond)
5M—Ronnie Sweeney 6C— Daniel Hall
5M: 96.8%
5M– Brook Southgate 6C—Jamie Hancox x 2 6B: 86.5%
5M— Leyla Ucar Unfortunately there is not
5M— Jasmine Sweet enough space to mention the 6C: 98.7%
6B– Bradley Graham children’s achievements here
6B– Reis Bhandal x 2 but if you are interested to see Well done to Year 2 and the
6B– Scarlett Brown x 2 your child’s mention the book is other classes above 96.1%
6B– Kimberley Seamons x 2 usually kept in the office—so
6B—Jessica Okyere x 2 please pop in and ask to see it. Our School Total was 96.%!
HOUSE POINTS
Week ending 4.2.11 Raffle Prize Winners
The winners in this week’s draw for
1st— Green = 186 2nd— Yellow = 178
tea with Miss Fisher were Naomi
3rd—Red= 150 4th—Blue = 133 Balade in 1BA and Jasmine Sweet
Congratulations to Green House members! in 5M.
Well done to them for showing the
And finally....... appropriate behaviour.
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