14 schools in focus PRIMARY UPDATE A look into the world of primary school and nursery management LONDON LOCAL NEWS
£10m primary planned for Kensington and Chelsea
MIDDLE ROW PRIMARY, London
A new £9.6m primary school is being planned for west London.
The Middle Row Primary in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea will hold up to 420 children aged four to 11, incorporating a speech and language centre. There will also be a nursery with a capacity for 30 younger children.
The new building, being built by BAM, will be constructed in the facility in the grounds of the existing school. The scheme will include natural ventilation, solar panels, and a green roof. Work started last month, with completion and operation of the school building scheduled for spring 2014, followed by external landscaping completion in autumn 2014.
Bar raised for primaries
Primary schools will be under even greater scrutiny next year, as the Government raises its test results targets.
From 2014, schools will need to have 65% of pupils achieving the expected levels in English and maths, up from 60%, Schools Minister David Laws says. Speaking at ASCL’s Closing the Gap event, Laws said he wants pupils to be “secondary ready” when they leave primary school.
The increased target will apply to 11-year-olds taking their Sats tests in spring 2014. Based on last year’s results, there would have been 866 schools below the minimum target of 65%. This would mean hundreds more
schools being brought below the minimum level. There are currently 476 schools below the 60% threshold. In the tests taken in spring 2012, the national average was 79%
for pupils achieving the expected levels for English and maths.
Laws also announced that schools will be under greater pressure to demonstrate effective use of the pupil premium. Schools not graded good or outstanding
by Ofsted and deemed to be not doing enough to close the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils will have to produce action plans showing how they will spend the additional funding.
Laws said: “Many of our children are leaving primary school without having secured the basics in the 3Rs. They then go on to struggle at secondary school. “We must ensure that a far higher proportion of pupils are ‘secondary ready’ by the end of their primary school. This will allow them not simply to cope, but thrive, when presented with the challenges and opportunities of secondary school.”
They said... In order for play equipment to promote
crucial development and be appealing and stimulating to children, it needs to be challenging... Play providers need to... identify and highlight potential risks, and then manage them accordingly. As the HSE stated:No child will learn about risk
if they are wrapped in cotton wool Darran Hine of Sovereign Play Equipment responding to a statement by the Health and Safety Executive and Play Safety Forum removing popular misconceptions on children’s play
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