Deputy Head, Mrs Charlotte Blake added:
“Wehave awellbeing club which is run at lunchtimes and offers abreak from learning. Parents can come along too if they wish to –particularly any remaining parents of those deployed where time is short at home and it’s achance for them to sit down and just do something easy but fun with their son or
daughter.Wedraw, colour –simple things to do that in turn, encourages natural conversation and keeps those communication lines open. Things flex too as they need to with changing needs etc. The school has ‘a mind to be kind’ culture that we instil in the children alongside a ‘superflex’ approach and it’s really been embraced to the point that children now ask about it.”
SERVICE PUPIL PREMIUM
Mark adds: Service personnel with
childreninstate schools in England have an annual deadlineofmid-January each year to notify
Mr Thrower added “In terms of how SPP is used by us here, we don’t pin it on aparticular thing or service. As well as the wellbeing club, we use a Teaching Assistant’s time to help the in-house assessment on entry to the school as well as monitoring at breaks/lunchtimes and the intervention groups who do the mop-ups of phonics, maths, sentence structure etc –basically where it’s needed.
We also work really closely with RAF Wittering’s Community Development Officer (CDO), Mark Davis,
“Wehave avery positive working relationship with Wittering Primary School and work closely on anumber of projects. We try to make transitions as smooth as we can with new arrivals to the school, ensuring they contact Peterborough Schools Admissions as early as possible to register aplace and we have information on which year groups may be close to being full. We also have astrong working relationship with the School Admissions team at Peterborough City Council who are supportive of our service families and will help as much as they can.
schools of theirchildren’s eligibility forthe Service PupilPremium(SPP).
“Our Service Community Support OfficerWONeil Paylor and HIVE Information Officer Sophie West also hold aweekly outreach session at the Family Centre in order to meet families and support with anumber of issues.”
The Clements family
had agood experience of obtaining school places via Peterborough LEA and Wittering Primary School and share their experience:
“Wewere living in South America when we received our posting to Wittering. Icalled the LEA at Peterborough, who were very helpful as to how to go about selecting school options. They then suggested that, should Ibeinterested in the school at Wittering, Icall the school directly.
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