Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Section 8 report
Fri 16 Oct 2015The report following the recent Section 8 monitoring visit can be found under the OFSTED section on our website. A hard-copy version will also be sent home for all parents/carers. We are very pleased with the report and it clearly confirms that the academy is taking effective action towards the removal of special measures. Thank you to all parents and carers for their on-going support. -
Attendance winners
Fri 16 Oct 2015Well done to Parrots class who won the attendance trophy today with an impressive 98.3% attendance! -
House Points winners
Fri 16 Oct 2015Congratulations to Wales who were this week's winners with a massive 412 points!
Points totals were:
Wales 412
Scotland 341
N Ireland 325
England 309
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Early Years Open Day
Thu 15 Oct 2015We are offering two dates for parents to bring along their children to explore our state of the art Early Years provision. Join us on either;
- Monday 19th October, from 1:30pm until 2:30pm
- Wednesday 21st October, from 1:30pm until 2:30pm
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Koalas visit the windmill
Mon 12 Oct 2015Reception are looking at Little Red Hen as their key text week, so to bring learning alive they went to the windmill to understand the process of preparing wheat into flour ready to use to bake bread during their fact based learning.
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Cross Country Running
Sat 10 Oct 2015Well done to all if our children who took part in the Cross Country running at Quex Park today. Thank you to Mr Comber for organising so many runners.
Watch a short video HERE.
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Thanet Hidden History
Sat 10 Oct 2015Have you ever wondered what is under our school field?
Thank you Frank from the Thanet Hidden History page on Facebook who has allowed us to share this information.
Hidden away on Margate`s high ground which has been used for thousands of years for Windmills and homes by the local people are theses amazing ruins! .
In the foreground of the photograph was the excavation of a Late Iron Age or Early Roman enclosure which took place on the playing field of Drapers mill school. The ditched enclosure is located on the edge of the site of a Romano-British villa, which was disturbed by the construction of the school in the 1930’s and investigated by excavations between 1959 and 1961 and again in 1981. The villa most likely replaced a small Iron Age settlement, which lay within the enclosed ditch. A filled in chalk quarry from the Roman period in the 2nd century AD, located near the houses to the right of the mill in the photograph, produced an amazing cast bronze head of a boxer ! .
In the background at the centre of the photograph is Draper’s Mill, a smock mill constructed in 1845 by the Canterbury millwright John Holman. A smock mill has a sloped body, with a cap at the top that rotates so that the sails can be turned to face the winds. The windmill is the last of three mid 19th century windmills that that once stood together on this rounded downland hilltop. Draper’s Mill was threatened with demolition in 1965, but was saved and restored in 1968.
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Thanet Gazette - Friday 9th October
Sat 10 Oct 2015There were two articles about the school published in the Thanet Gazette on Friday.
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Top Year 2 readers
Fri 09 Oct 2015Lexi and Owen from year 2 read every day this week and won 'Superhero' outfits as a reward.
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Attendance Ted is unhappy!
Fri 09 Oct 2015Attendance Ted did not come to assembly today. In this video, he explains why to Mrs Todd and Mr Apps.
