Phonics Screening Check 2014

I’ve been thinking more about “success”. In almost every way you care to measure it, North Nibley is a successful school, enabling children to make significantly better progress in their learning than expected, whatever each child’s starting point. Yet ‘accademic’ success is not the only route to a satisfying and purposeful life. For many the…

The summer term is always hard work – enjoyable and worthwhile, but hard. Part of the reason for this is the sense of the impending deadline – the “end of the year” – which means we’ve run out of wriggle-room. Jobs once put off in favour of other priorities now have to be shoe-horned into…