Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Head Boy and Girl Elections
Tue 29 Sep 2015Our children went to the Polls recently to vote for who they wanted to represent them on the schools leadership team. Children in key stage 2 saw democracy in action when they cast their votes after listening to a number of prospective candidates share their ideas on how they would improve the school.
David Koloszvary and Abbie Didd were the successful candidates with Kieran Quittenden and Acshaya Gunapalasingam being voted in as their Deputies.
All four will work closely with the School’s Senior Leadership Team to give all the children at school a voice. Their first initiative was to hold a non-school uniform day where children dressed up as characters from their favourite books or European Sports Stars where they raised over £200. They aim to spend the money on more playground equipment for the children in Key Stage 2 and reading rewards for the children in Key Stage 1.
Mr Apps said that they will be an invaluable asset to the leadership team and looks forward to working with them.
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Attendance Ted and The Lighthouse Project
Mon 28 Sep 2015Attendance Ted has was working alongside the Lighthouse Project this morning promoting the importance of school attendance and community engagement. Did you see them? Were you given a raffle ticket? If yes, that means you were in school on time today. Well done and good luck with the draw.
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The Great Drapers Mills Bake Off
Mon 28 Sep 2015Thank you to all parents and staff who contributed to our Bake Off in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. It was lovely to see so many of you in the small hall on Friday and we are pleased to say that with your help we managed to raise £74. A HUGE thank you to all who were involved.
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New Safeguarding website for parents - Parent Info
Sun 27 Sep 2015In schools we have lots of opportunities to learn about safeguarding and, particularly the online aspect. Parents on the other hand need access to support too. It is not always easy to encourage parents to meetings about esafety, but it is crucial they understand the risks.
The government has recently launched a brand new website to support parents. The website has being developed with ParentZone and CEOP, the police command responsible for child exploitation and online protection.
Parent Info is a collection of articles, tips, expert advice and resources designed to help parents keep up with what their children are doing on-line. For example, the site currently includes information about staying safe on minecraft, mental health, and building online resilience.
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Parent View - Your Child's School
Sun 27 Sep 2015Are you a parent of a child at our school? Your feedback is always welcomed. Have your say by completing a survey at https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/ -
Notification of Inspection of Drapers Mills Primary Academy on 22 September 2015 to 23 September 2015
Mon 21 Sep 2015Please see our OFSTED page for further information
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MacMillan Coffee Morning
Tue 15 Sep 2015On Friday 25th September at 3pm in the small hall we will be holding a cake and coffee afternoon to raise money for the fantastic MacMillan Cancer Support.We would like you to bake some cakes with your children to bring along. We would love to see photo evidence of you baking with your children.
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RED TED
Mon 14 Sep 2015We have introduced RED TED into Key Stage 1 ( Year 1 and 2). RED TED stands for Read Every Day, Talk Every Day and is designed to encourage our children to be reading every day at home and talking about books so that they will really begin to understand the true joy of reading.
The children were introduced to RED TED in assembly today ( Attendance Ted brought RED TED in as he was a bit shy!) and they were told just how much he loves listening to stories. The children were also told what his favourite story is. Ask your child and see if they can remember. ( I will give you a clue...... the creature has terrible teeth in his terrible jaws!)
It is important that when you have listened to your child read and had a talk about the story, that you sign their reading record book as the class teacher will be counting. Every time your child has read 10 times at home, they will get a sticker on a book mark, and after 5 stickers ( 50 reads) they will get to take home RED TED.
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Secondary Application Forms - Notice for Year 6 parents
Thu 10 Sep 2015The deadline to complete the application form for Secondary schools is 31st October 2015.
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Marking Policy
Tue 08 Sep 2015Mrs Jennings-Payne and Mr Comber have made this fantastic video to demonstrate how our our marking policy works.
