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February 2010
Mandeville’s Ofsted report is published
We were all delighted to receive the final report for Mandeville’s recent Ofsted inspection. Staff from Woodberry Down and London Fields have been working alongside staff at Mandeville since January 2009 and Mr Wallace has been Executive Principal of all three schools since June 2009.
The report was very positive, reflecting the huge improvements that have taken place at the school:
Mandeville Primary is a good school. It is improving rapidly and starting to exhibit some outstanding features.
The role of the federation in securing success at Mandeville was also highlighted:
The remarkable progress that has taken place in less than a year stems directly from working in partnership with the federation. Teaching is improving rapidly as the school is able to draw on expertise from across the federation to develop teachers’ skills. This and the impending formal entry of the school into the federation, with the continued benefits this brings, provide the school with excellent capacity to secure further improvement.
You can download the full report here.
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February 2010
School visited by Ofsted as part of the 2009-10 survey inspection programme: raising aspirations and achievement- the power of partnership
At the beginning of February we had a visit from Ofsted to look at the hard federation at London Fields and Woodberry Down Primary Schools. The visit letter has now been published.
We were delighted with the feedback received.
‘Clear strategic vision for the federation… relentless drive to raise standards… outstanding leadership capacity developed at Woodberry Down… the drive and ambition for every pupil to succeed came through strongly in all discussions with staff… exceptional ICT systems… innovative assessment and marking procedures evidenced in pupils’ books… London Fields’ pupils bubbled with enthusiasm and pride as they talked about ‘the magical change that happened’ at the start of the federation… teaching was lively and learning was purposeful… the presentation of pupils’ work was of a high standard across the federation and the standard of pupils’ work at London Fields showed remarkable improvement since its start… excellent support from the chair of governors… visionary, strategic development… clearly valued by the Learning Trust.’
You can read the whole letter here.
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February 2009
EFFECTIVE MARKING IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE INNOVATION AWARD - EDUCATION RESOURCES AWARDS 2009
We were very proud to learn that Effective Marking had been shortlisted for the above award. Designed, developed and implemented by staff from this school, it is a significant achievement.
Over the last year and half other schools have adopted our approach and subscribed to the website – in London, across the UK and – more recently, across the world.
Money from Effective Marking revenue provides additional funding that is always needed.
More importantly, we have prioritised one of the most important- and often neglected – aspects of teaching. The people that need to benefit from any educational award are children. And where Effective Marking is implemented consistently all the evidence suggests that they do.
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January 2009
London Fields is out of special measures. Ofsted inspected the school in December 2008 and identified 'transformational progress'. It went on to say,'The school now provides its pupils with a good and improving education. Unlike at the time of the last inspection, the school has for some time now felt safe and an enjoyable place to be for pupils and staff. Since September 2008, the progress of many pupils has been rapid. Overall, given their starting points, pupils are now making good progress.'
You can read the full report by clicking this link.
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September 2008
Making ICT Meaningful – a brand new teaching approach to ICT
The two schools in the London Fields Woodberry Down Federation have launched a brand new teaching programme for ICT. Written by Marco Ramsay (Deputy Head at London Fields and joint ICT leader at Woodberry Down) the programme is an
alternative way of approaching the teaching of ICT.
“By teaching dull and irrelevant units of work from the QCA teachers are actually putting children off using ICT,” said Mr Ramsay.
MICTM (Making ICT Meaningful) is a new approach altogether. It completely changes the structure of what is taught and how ICT is used with relatively cheap resources. Starting in Key Stage one, children are taught the fundamental skills needed for ICT. Year 3 is a critical point in MICTM as this is where the children learn to use software ready for their projects in Years 4, 5 and 6.
Once in Year 4, the children will no longer have a series of six lessons, as
their skills will be developed enough to work on their own projects. At this point the children will take on 12- week projects with a creative element at the core. These will consist of filmmaking, animation or sound creation. They will use all their skills over approximately twelve weeks.
MICTM is a complete programme that is highly supportive to teachers who are given simple, clear planning guidance and accompanying resources.
Many thanks to Mr Ramsay for all his hard work in writing MICTM. We look forward to seeing the results soon!
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September 2008
The school now has a Virtual learning environment. Click the 'Our VLE' link from the homepage.
For children
This means you can join the site, leave messages and chat! You can also do work linked to your school lessons. The site has just started - but please join!
For teachers
A Virtual learning environment (VLE) is a software system designed to facilitate teachers in the management of educational courses for their students, especially by helping teachers and learners with course administration.
Components of the VLE include templates for content pages, discussion forums, chat, quizzes and exercises such as multiple-choice, true/false and one-word-answer. Teachers fill in these templates and then release them for learners to use.
At London Fields our first year of the VLE will primarily see us making it an online T drive.
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