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A free chance to observe teaching for mastery in maths
Tue 25 Feb 2020The North Midlands Specialist Maths Hub, based at Painsley Catholic College, is offering an opportunity for primary school teachers to see a ‘Mastery’ lesson being delivered by two Mastery Specialist teachers at Meir Heath Academy, Stoke-on-Trent on 11th and 12th March. The two teachers, one from Meir Heath Academy, Stoke-on-Trent and one from The Priory in Walsall were selected last year to take part in a prestigious teacher exchange, focusing on mathematics, with a partner school in Shanghai.
Mrs. Andrea Turkmen and Mr. Lewis McGee are among around 100 expert mathematics teachers from schools across England taking part in the exchange programme as part of the Maths Hub Mastery Programme.
The purpose of the programme is to further develop the understanding and implementation of mastery approaches to teaching maths in Meir Heath Academy and The Priory School, and in local partner schools, they will be working with during the school year 2019/20.
The Mastery lesson will give colleagues from across the region the chance to see a demonstration of excellent classroom practice and to find out more about the wider Teaching for Mastery programme. Places are free but interested parties do need to sign up in advance, to find out more contact the local Maths hub by emailing mathshub@painsley.staffs.sch.uk.
This is one part of the Teaching for Mastery Programme, run by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in conjunction with the Maths Hubs Programme, and funded by the DfE. Funding for the four-year programme, initially amounting to £41m, was launched in July 2016 and over 200 schools have worked with the North Mids Maths Hub on the mastery programme since 2016.
There are 37 Maths Hubs, spread across England, each led by a school with a record of high achievement in maths, and of supporting, improvements in maths teaching and learning in neighbouring schools.
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Coronavirus - Information For Parents
Fri 14 Feb 2020Coronavirus - information for parents:
Based on the scientific advice of SAGE, the UK Chief Medical Officers are advising anyone who has travelled to the UK from mainland China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia or Macau in the last 14 days and is experiencing cough or fever or shortness of breath, to stay indoors and call NHS 111, even if symptoms are mild.
Thank you
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The Painsley Catholic Academy on Target to Raise £100,000
Thu 13 Feb 2020The Painsley Catholic Academy has raised just over £50,000 for Mary’s Meals at the halfway point in the school year.
In September, all fifteen schools within the academy decided to take part in a campaign that they have called ‘20:20 for Mary’. This campaign aims to motivate each child and staff member to try to raise a target of £20 for the Mary’s Meals charity by February half term, and another £20 by the end of July during 2020. The overall aim is to raise an ambitious target of £100,000 in just one school year.
“The concept of Mary’s Meals is so very simple and yet effective, it really appeals to our students,” commented Mr. Steve Bell, C.E.O of The Painsley Catholic Academy. “Mary’s Meals is about providing children with a daily meal at a place of education something that our students of all ages can really relate to. The efforts of each and every one of our students, from age just 4 or 5 years to 18 years, are very much appreciated. I am proud and delighted that at the halfway point in the year, we are just over halfway to our target. Well done and thank you to everyone who has supported this worthy cause.”
The 20:20 campaign began in September with both secondary and primary school children busy running cake sales, fashion shows, raffles, Christmas gifts and craft sales, art shows and sponsored sports events. The schools have not lost momentum and have more events planned for the next few months including a sponsored skydive, a marathon run, and a sponsored row.
Mary’s Meals was founded in 2002 and has grown from its first feeding operation of 200 children in Malawi to a worldwide campaign, providing free school meals in hundreds of schools and feeding more than one and a half million children daily. Mary's Meals is named after Mary, the mother of Jesus, by its founders, who were inspired by their Catholic faith. The charity claims that just £15.90 is enough to feed one child for an entire school year. If The Painsley Catholic Academy can reach its target, this will feed over 6,000 children for a year.
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Mary's Meals
Thu 12 Dec 2019Please find a link below for our chosen charity this year.....
Mary's Meals
Prayer for Mary’s Meals
Our Father give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us for the times when
we take more than our share of
the bread that belongs to all.
Let us help You fill the starving
with good things,
not with scraps from our table.
Teach us how to share what is not
ours to keep.
Clothe us with Your love
that we may complete each good
work you created us to do.
Place in our hearts Your
compassion for each starving child
and use our little acts of love so
that they starve no more.
Amen.
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Moorlands Radio in School 20/11/2019
Wed 20 Nov 2019This morning we had the pleasure of welcoming Matt Hill and Moorlands Radio
who broadcasted live from St Mary's between 9am & 10am.
Children from each year group, from Nursery to Year 6,
spoke so proudly of all of the "Vehicles" that they were covering this term
and Toby was fabulous when he had the opportunity to tell everyone about our upcoming
Christmas Fayre on 6th December at 3.30pm.
You were all AMAZING!!!
We would love to let all of the children know how proud and thankful that we are of them,
not only during everyday school life and whilst Moorlands Radio were in school,
but also when we have any visitors to the school.
One visitor this afternoon asked if there were any children in as it was so quiet on the corridors.
We had to show him Class 2 & 3 to prove it!!
We would like to give a great big THANK YOU!
to Matt Hill and Moorlands Radio for giving us this special opportunity.
We cannot wait to visit Moorlands Radio in the coming weeks to record our Christmas Jingle
Here is the link to revisit the show and listen again
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Stay and share learning sessions in Nursery - Huge Sucess.
Fri 08 Nov 2019Today was our first Stay and Share learning session in Nursery and thanks to the fantastic support from parents it was a huge success.
The children have been grinning from ear to ear all morning, talking about their family.
Our Poppies, created alongside parents, look fantastic in our classroom Remembrance display.
See you all next week. Same time, same place !
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Year 7 Admissions September 2020
Mon 02 Sep 2019Painsley Open Evening will be held on Wednesday 18th September at 7pm
Applications are now being taken for Year 7 in September 2020.
A personalised letter will be sent home with your child on Tuesday 3rd September with some more information.
Please click on this link http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/admissions to apply for your child's place.
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Whole School End of year Attendance
Mon 22 Jul 2019Our Whole school attendance for the 2018/ 2019 academic year
was as follows:
95.41% attendance rate
with 0.91% of absences being unauthorised
Congratulations!!!!!
to...... Year 4
who are our winning class for the whole year with them achieving 96.37% of which 0.77% were unauthorised
followed so so close by Year 1
with 96.35% of which 0.46% were unauthorised
3rd - Year 5 96.32% with 0.76% unauthorised absences
4th - Year 6 95.62% with 0.84% unauthorised absences
5th - Year 2 95.58% with 0.96% unauthorised absenses
6th - Year 3 94.1% with 1.6% unauthorised absences
7th Reception Class 93.57% with 0.89% unauthorised absense
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Attendance w/c 8th July 2019
Fri 12 Jul 2019Congratulations!!!!!
to...... Year 4
who are once again our winning class this week with them achieving 96.64%
followed close by Year 5 who managed 96.39%.
3rd were Year 1 with 96.19%
4th were Year 2 with 95.75%
5th were Year 6 with 95.6%
6th were Year 3 with 94.05%
7th were Reception Class with 93.51%
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Foundation Stage Sports Day
Tue 09 Jul 2019Well Done Everyone!
Thank you to everyone who joined us today for our Foundation Stage sports day.
It's clear from the smiles that everyone enjoyed themselves.
The overall winners were the Yellow team, however there was some fantastic sportsmanship and determination shown by children on all teams.
