Reading Recovery Teacher of the Year 2013

Dear Parents,
As  I mentioned in my last blog, Mrs Goree has been named Reading Recovery Teacher of the Year 2013. Above is a picture of her collecting award in London last Friday. Further details are reported in today's Post Newspaper.  The link below will take you to the news story on the website.

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Award-Anne-contribution-pupil-literacy/story-19326007-detail/story.html

Mr Burton

Reading Recovery Award

Dear Parents,

I am very pleased to tell you that Mrs Goree has just won the Reading Recovery Teacher of the year Award for the South West. This is a very prestigious award that Mrs Goree quite rightly deserves. We are very pleased with this fantastic achievement. I will share more details later this week and hopefully publish some photos from the award ceremony.
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Mr Burton

Window replacement works

Dear Parents,

You have probably noticed some containers and building materials in the car park. We are about to start replacing windows across the school. This will cause some disruption to some classes. Some classes will have to relocate for a couple of days at a time to the community building while the windows are fitted. Mr Pring has done a fantastic job of scheduling the work so classes are disturbed as little as possible. I'm sure the small period of disruption will be worth it.
The work will start on Monday 10th June, in the community building.
Mr Burton

ITV news report

Welcome back to Cabot for Term 6.

As some of you know we had TV cameras at Cabot on Tuesday. This was part of a report covering the news story about Ofsted inspecting the quality of support given to schools in Brsitol by the local authority.  There does seem to be a disappointly negative tone to the coverage of this issue.  The media want to know what the council is doing to help schools improve. I was asked if I could showcase Cabot as a school that is improving quickly.  We know that in the past the achievement of pupils has not been as high as other schools. However, this is changing, very quickly. Our children in Reception and Year 2 have some of the highest results in Bristol. We know that although outcomes at Year 6 have improved enormously in the last 4 years (2009 21% pupils achieved expected levels in English and Maths compared to 64% in 2011), we believe the the children can still do better.  We expect our current Year 6 pupils to achieve the best results the school has ever had.  I look forward to sharing their good results with you very soon.

We were chosen to be on television because of the good progress the school is making. I think the class of children shown working with Mrs Wilkins were an excellent representation of the high quality teaching and learning happening at Cabot now. The children were well focussed on their learning and showed their excellent attitude to school life.  Although the reporter discussed problems in other schools while showing pictures of Cabot, it is well known that our children are improving in their learning.  We were invited to do the report for positive reasons. I felt very proud of how the children and the school appeared.

Your children are good learners and Cabot Primary School is a school the community can feel very proud of.
You can see the report by following this link.
http://www.itv.com/news/west/
You can also see data up to last year on our school dashboard. Please pay particular attention to the Key Stage 1 results.
http://dashboard.ofsted.gov.uk/dash.php?urn=108992

Mr Burton