School lunches
We pride ourselves in supplying our children with excellent food. We feel that it is one of the most important parts of a child’s life – to eat properly. Eating a healthy diet enables a child to live life to the full and gives them a better performance all round, specifically helping with their concentration levels – which in turn affects achievement.
So we encourage all of our children to have a school dinner and we are glad to have such a high uptake of school dinners at our school. It’s good to know that our children are getting a well balanced and healthy meal every school day. See the information to the right for more details.
Further information:
Free school meals
Many of our families could get Free School Meals but do not claim for them; your child may be entitled to Free School Meals if you as the parent are in receipt of any of the following benefits:
- Income Support
- Jobseeker’s Allowance (income based)
- Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (but NOT Working Tax Credit)
Why claim?
- Save hundreds of pounds per year
- Extra funding for the school in the form of Pupil Premium
- It’s your entitlement
- No downside
- Other pupils and parents will not know you are claiming
‘Pupils are happy and they feel safe.’…
OFSTED comments
‘The multi-academy trust has provided teachers with detailed suggestions for how to adapt every aspect of the curriculum.’…
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‘Leaders ensure that pupils can develop essential life skills through activities such as learning to dress independently and simple food preparation’…
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‘The harmonious relationships among all groups, from a wide variety of backgrounds, are a strength of the school’…
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‘The highly successful promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is at the heart of the school’s work’…
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‘Leaders help pupils to develop resilience and self-confidence in their learning.’…
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‘Teachers provide opportunities for pupils to share experiences of their cultural beliefs and celebrations.’…
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‘Teaching and learning are consistently good. As a result most pupils make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics from often significantly below-average starting points’…
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‘Children make a good start in the early years because of good teaching’…
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‘Pupils feel very safe in school because of the school’s rigorous approach to keeping them safe’…
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‘Leaders leave no stone unturned to ensure that the very diverse school population is treated equally and that there is a relentless focus on driving up pupil performance’…
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‘Pupils contribute significantly to the successes of the school through their outstanding behaviour and readiness to learn’…
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‘In religious
education lessons, teachers provide opportunities for pupils to understand and appreciate the different life experiences of their friends.’…
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‘The range of enrichment activities the school provides is excellent and contributes a great deal to pupils’ learning’…
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‘The excellent relationships between teachers and their pupils ensure lessons are purposeful and enjoyable’…
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‘Teachers use
rigorous assessments to make sure that all pupils make good progress.’…
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‘Pupils demonstrate outstanding levels of tolerance and respect for other pupils and adults’…
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‘ A well-developed
programme for relationships education helps pupils to understand the importance of tolerance and respect for others.’…
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‘Teachers ensure that they enrich the curriculum through an extensive range of visits and experiences’…
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‘Comprehensive subject plans identify the essential knowledge and vocabulary that pupils need to learn over time.’…
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‘Parents are overwhelmingly supportive, commenting very positively on the school’s many strong features’…
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‘The Clifton ‘Good Citizen’ programme helps pupils to develop the communication and interaction skills they need for
later life.’…
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‘Pupils with highly complex special educational needs receive outstanding levels of support.’…
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‘There is a very strong focus on checking on how well different groups of pupils are learning, so that any falling behind can be immediately helped to make better progress’…
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‘Relationships between adults and pupils are extremely positive.’…
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‘There is a strong sense of community in this school.’…
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‘Leaders have embedded a carefully sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum from the early years through to Year 6.’…
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‘From the earliest stages in Reception, adults skilfully support pupils to explain their mathematical thinking.’…
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‘The introduction of a comprehensively sequenced phonics programme is helping children to establish successful early reading skills from the very start of Reception.’…
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‘Leaders have high expectations of behaviour for all pupils.’…
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‘Staff morale is high, team spirit is very strong, and all are committed to continued improvement. This helps to explain why the school is continuing to improve’…
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