FAO all Haringey schools
The governing body of St Michael’s CofE Primary School (N6) is consulting on changes to the school’s admission arrangements for entry in September 2021.
For more information, please read these documents:
Michael’s CofE Primary School Highgate – Admissions Arrangements 2021
St Michael’s CofE Primary School Highgate – Supplementary Information Form 2021-22
Month: December 2019
FAO all Haringey schools
The governing body of St James CofE Primary School is consulting on changes to the school’s admission arrangements for entry in September 2021.
For further details, please read the documents below:
St James CofE Primary school – proposed admissions policy 2021-2022
St James CofE Primary School – Consultation Letter on proposed admission arrangements
St James CofE Primary School – Proposed Supplementary Information Form 2021-22-final
I am writing to convey my thanks to you and to all of your staff members and governors who have worked so hard across the year to support our children, young people and families. As ever, it has been a challenging year but I am aware of and grateful for the thoughtful and hard work that has been done to ensure that children and young people remain at the centre and are the focus of all that you do.
Wishing you a very peaceful and relaxing Christmas and a really positive New Year: thank you for everything that you do.
Eveleen Riordan, Assistant Director, Schools and Learning
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Latest school performance tables
The government has published the latest performance tables of statistics on the attainment of primary, secondary and post-16 pupils.
You can see them here (external link)
There’s help in Haringey for parents who want practical advice on parenting and help with building their confidence as parents. There are two six-week Confidence Building Parenting courses beginning in January running on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- 10am – 12pm every Tuesday from 14 January to 25 February 2019 (excluding half-term) at Woodside High School, White Hart Lane, N22 5QJ
- 1pm – 3pm every Wednesday from 15 January to 26 February (excluding half-term) at Park Lane Children’s Centre, 139 Park Lane, N17 OHB
Parents should contact info@sevnecatitraining.com for details and to register their interest
A plaque to commemorate the life of pioneering black British female footballer, Emma Clarke, was unveiled at Campsbourne School in December.
The Mayor of Haringey, Cllr Sheila Peacock, was among the attendees at the school where Emma and her sister, Florence, used to play football in the mid-1890s – on what would have been Emma’s 143rd birthday.
Former Arsenal Women and England Lionesses captain Faye White and Florence’s great grand-nephew David Witham were also present.
The plaque unveiling, which was preceded by a girls’ football tournament in Emma’s name, was featured on Channel 5 news.
Haringey is committed to making cycling a safe, enjoyable and practical method of transport in the borough. Anyone who lives, works or studies in Haringey is entitles to use the services of Cycle Confident and we actively encourage people to do this.
Our programme of cycle training continues throughout the year and is available to parents, teachers and all adults working at your school.
You can book sessions with Cycle Confident for all children from year 5 up to year 13. They will also deliver cycle training to staff and parent groups: Parent cycle skills leaflet
Safe Drive Stay Alive
This is taking place on 16, 17 and 18 March @ The Bernie Grant Arts Centre, N15
Has your school applied for free seats for this road safety production aimed at our students aged 16 and over? This is a powerful production exploring how a motor vehicle collision impacts on so many lives. There are seats left for your school. These schools have booked so far: Fortismere, St Thomas More, Harris Academy Tottenham, Greig City, Ada College for Digital Skills, Highgate Wood School
Road Safety News
Have you heard about Vision Zero? We are working to achieve Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aims for Vision Zero, so everything we offer and support will feed into this.
1) Junior Travel Ambassador Scheme
Perfect to encourage your children to take ownership of the environmental aspects of travel, they gain incredible experience of project management and can represent your school at our upcoming Celebration Event on 5th February @ LAE Tottenham. Contact us for more information and training about this scheme.
2) No parking at schools
We are currently auditing all the schools for improving the road safety. This means we have engineers attending every school to provide a report to say what they feel the best improvements could be. We welcome your views these will be added to our reports. As previously mentioned you will only be considered for a School Street etc if your school is actively promoting STARS active travel and has silver or gold accreditation.
Banners – If your No Parking Banner is not fit for purpose, please email smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk to request replacement/s.
3) Be Bright Be Seen with the dark mornings and evenings and the winter break for the New Year, please make sure your parting comment is to choose to be safe: Wear bright colours, don’t hide in the darkness. Check out this activity created by Gladesmore School too
Active Travel and STARS
We would like your support with a couple of extremely important features on STARS that are so useful to us.
The Hands Up Survey
Hands up survey
We need this updated information to help with the schools audits so please complete before end of term. If you cannot get your teachers to complete on line, please give them a deadline and a printed copy of the hands up survey. I am happy to help upload this.
Issues
Please let us know of any issues that you have in the vicinity of your school – anything that would prevent people walking or cycling or cause safety issues.
· Are the pavements all broken and create enormous puddles when it rains?
· Does the road flood, causing children to get soaked?
· Is the guard rail broken and dangerous?
· Are the zig zag lines (School Keep Clear) or yellow lines outside your school ignored, faded, or need a banner?
· Is your cycle parking area overflowing or not used?
There are many more things that you and your teachers may have noticed. Resolving these issues could also count towards your consultation section on Stars.
Please collect information when you are consulting with your school community about travelling to school. Then upload it to Stars. If any urgent action is needed, please contact Frontline@haringey.gov.uk and cc smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk
STARS Celebration and Training Event and certificates
Unfortunately, TfL have had a hitch, they have sent half the certificates and stars but not all and I didn’t want them to go missing, so they will all be delivered in the new year.
Hold the Date
Our Celebration and Training Event for STARS is 5 February 2020 @ LAE Tottenham High Road (next to Spurs)
We are organising a fabulous extravaganza to celebrate all our amazing achievements and the 65 accreditations for our School Travel Plans. We are very proud of all our schools and the pupils who work so hard to keep the car use at under 20% for our borough. You are all invited, it will mainly be aimed at primary, but we can accommodate all.
We will be sending a link for schools to register for the event: two adults and up to four students. We will be holding two sessions on 5 February, from 9:30 to 12 and 12:45 to 3pm.
Lunch will be offered to both morning and afternoon attendees. This will probably be a buffet style and obviously cater for special dietary requirements.
The content of the event will be confirmed in January 2020.
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Sewn together- workshops
sewn together flier
The Bridge Renewal trust will be delivering a selection of sewing workshop for people keen to learn new skills and create pathways to training and employment into the creative industries. Please see this flier. If any students are interested in taking part, please contact: recruitment@bridgerenewaltrust.org.uk or info@4u2newsmag.com
Course content
· Design and pattern cutting
· Hand embroidery
· Up/recycling
· Green and environmental matters
· Wellbeing in the work place
· Digital marketing
· Event management
The Outstanding for All Awards 2019 took place on Monday 2 December at Tottenham Hotspur FC’s impressive new stadium.
Inspirational students, talented teachers and awesome support staff packed into the Spurs’ hospitality rooms for the celebratory evening.
Now in their seventh year, these Haringey Council awards celebrate educational excellence and acknowledge notable achievements in categories such as apprenticeships, the arts, community heroism, early years education and governance.
The awards were hosted by writer, actor and broadcaster Tom Watt, who was joined on stage by students Esmee Charlesworth and Devante Seepaul-Craig.
The award presenters included a very special sporting guest, Spurs legend Ledley King who presented the Achievement in Sport Award.
Entertainment for the evening was provided by talented singers, dancers and musicians from Haringey schools, organised by Peter Desmond, head of Haringey Music Service.
Ann Graham, Director of Children’s Services commented:
“The standard of entries this year was exceptionally high. They were easily among the best we’ve ever received, and it was difficult to narrow them down to a shortlist of finalists. I’d like to congratulate everybody involved on just what they’ve managed to achieve in this calendar year and look forward to similar success stories in 2020.”
OFA 2019 Winners
| The Cllr Egan Achievement Award | Sharon Easton | St Paul’s & All Hallows’ Infant and Junior School |
| Outstanding STEM Achievement Award – Primary | STEM Competition Team from Quartz Class, Year 5 | The Devonshire Hill Nursery and Primary School |
| Outstanding STEM Achievement Award – Secondary | Automative Engineers | Woodside High School |
| Apprentice of the Year Award | Phoebe French | Highgate Wood School |
| Achievement in Sport Award | Megan Elliott | Highgate Wood School |
| Governor of the Year Award | Ann Robinson | Stroud Green Primary School |
| Teacher of the Year Award | Beth Squire | Heartlands High School |
| Overcoming Adversity Award | Precious Foli Arthur | St Thomas More Catholic School |
| Achievement in the Arts Award | Mario Taccarelli | Woodside High School |
