Information
We hope this page will provide further information about our school that parents, especially, will find useful.
School Prospectus
Our School Prospectus includes our school's key objectives, information on our governing body, admissions, the school day, absence, behaviour, curriculum and much more general information.
It is available here for you to read and/or print:
School Profile
Following the passage of the Education Act 2005, governing bodies are no longer required to hold an annual meeting for parents or produce a governors' annual report to parents. The report has been replaced by the school profile, which is designed for schools to communicate with parents about the school's progress, priorities and performance.
Ofsted Report
Our last Ofsted inspection was in May 2009. You can read the full report below:
Policy Documents
Here are some of our school documents and policies that parents may find particularly interesting. For other information or policies, please contact us at school.
- Accessibility Plan
- Anti-Bullying Policy
- Behaviour Policy
- Child Protection Policy
- E-Safety Policy
- Equal Opportunities Policy
- Gifted and Talented Children Policy
- Race Equality Policy
Special Educational Needs
Colmers Farm Infant School believes in inclusion in mainstream schools, whenever possible, for those children with Special Educational Needs.
We have a non-class based Special Educational Needs teacher who provides pupil support. She is supported by a HLTA who also supports groups of children, including Number Gang, our SEN maths group. We also have a Behaviour Co-ordinator who teaches full time. This enables children to be given the support they need to progress and reach their full potential whatever their special needs might be.
Individual needs are targeted through Individual Education or Behaviour plans, written for each child and reviewed each term. We take advice and support from specialist outside agencies when necessary.
We value input from all parties concerned with each child, including the parents, carers and the pupils themselves.
Reading Recovery
Reading Recovery is a specialist programme that helps children to improve their skills in reading and writing. Children who enter the programme are those who are struggling with literacy skills after having at least one year of schooling. The goal of Reading Recovery is to return these children to the average levels for their age, as independent readers and writers, within approximately 15 – 20 weeks.
The teaching is individually designed and individually delivered. Each child receives an intensive, half hour, daily session that is delivered by a Reading Recovery teacher.
Mrs Petrovic is our specialist teacher, delivering RR. Other staff are receiving training as part of the Every Child a Reader project and the expertise gained should impact on the children's standards in reading.
Every Child Counts
Alongside Reading Recovery, we have also been successful in becoming an Every Child Counts school.
ECC runs on a similar model to Reading Recovery, but the intervention is with Year 2 children. In all, 12 children benefit over the course of a year, with a new cohort of 4 children each term.
Children come for daily 30 minute individual lessons, planned by the specialist teacher to build on what they already know, and aimed at filling gaps and giving the child the skills and confidence to tackle mathematical problems in the class lessons. Each lesson is fun, interactive, and aimed at engaging and exciting each child so that maths is seen as a fun challenge, not something difficult to be endured!
Mrs Shuter is the specialist teacher, and is currently undergoing training.
Both of these initiatives have been made possible through the 'Every Child a Chance Trust' charity. For more information see links below:
