Buckminster Primary School 2.85

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Buckminster School Staff
Mrs D Clarke: Headteacher
Miss B Longley: Foundation stage 2 Teacher, Deputy Head
Mr W Watkin: Premises Officer, Farm Manager, Lunchtime Supervisor, Breakfast Club and After School Club Leader
Mrs T Goddard: Year 1/2 Teacher
Mrs K Hunt: Year 3/4 Teacher
Mr P Pettener: Year 5 Teacher
Mrs K Parkin: Year 6 Teacher
Mrs B Thompson: Teaching Assistant
Mrs A Hanson: Teaching Assistant
Mrs J Roberts: Teaching Assistant
Mrs S Birch: Office Manager
Mrs S Holmes: Office Manager
Mrs J Hayman: Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs S Watkin: Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs S Heaney: Cleaner

Introduction

Buckminster Primary School is a small, rural school for children aged four plus to eleven years.

The school is housed in an attractive Victorian building lying between the villages of Buckminster and Sewstern, and was built in 1889.

The school has five well-equipped classrooms together with a school hall, library, Snug, Community Room, kitchen, a school farm garden and very attractive school grounds.

Outside we have an enclosed play area for the Foundation children, a large hard playground, an adjacent sports field, incorporating a multi-user games area with an all weather surface. We have also developed an enclosed garden area, where each class is able to tend their own vegetable bed and we have paddocks for our hens and goats. Every fortnight we travel to Melton Mowbray by coach for swimming lessons.

Our Early Years classrooms cater for the Foundation Stage Two children and our Key Stage One classroom for Year 1 and Year 2 children. Each of these classes has a separate room staffed by their own teacher and supported by two classroom assistants. The main building also gives the groups the flexibility to work together when it benefits the delivery of the curriculum.

Our Key Stage Two classes caters for Year 3 and 4, Year 5 and Year 6. They are also supported by classroom assistants.

Each classroom has its own Ipads and has the use of a mobile, wireless bank of laptops. Further ICT resources are housed in the library. Interactive whiteboards are in place in all of the classrooms.

Catchment Area

Our catchment area covers the villages of Buckminster, Sewstern, Garthorpe and Coston. However, the popularity of the school is such that the school attracts children from many of the surrounding villages.

Those children within the catchment area and who come from the village of Sproxton are eligible for free school transport.

The school has an open-door policy and welcomes parents who are considering a choice of school for their children.

Our School Day

8.55am Registration
9.00am Lessons
10.25am Assembly
10.40am Mid-Morning Break
11.00am Lessons
12.15pm Lunch Time
1.25pm Lessons
3.20pm Home Time

Aims

Our vision at Buckminster Primary School is based upon the following:

Learning Together
•In a community-based learning environment, involving pupils, parents, family and the local community where the values of care, equity and achievement for all are paramount.

Learning about the World
•To ensure our children have an understanding of the wider world including the life experiences of others outside their own community in order to support their tolerance, respect and understanding of the world and its people.
•To be a sustainable school where we consider the environmental impact of the processes which we use to be develop an understanding in our children of ways to support the care of the environment.

Learning for the Future

We accept that many of the jobs which our pupils will undertake are unlikely to exist yet. As such, we will equip our pupils with fundamental learning skills enabling them to:
•Have a secure knowledge of their own learning styles and needs.
•Have an ability to take ownership of their learning, and to identify ways of reaching their own targets, goals and aspirations.
•Have a strong understanding of how to ensure their own physical and emotional health, and to support others around them in doing the same.
•Have an understanding of how being a member of a successful, collaborative community can enhance chances of success.
•Utilise technologies to support the learning and teaching processes, striving to be innovative in their use.

In order that our children will show 'the 4 R's of being Respectful, Responsible, Reflective and Resourceful'.

Breakfast and After School Clubs

We are delighted to be able to provide a Breakfast Club and After School Club for our community.

Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club is run by Mrs Wallace and starts at 7.40am, finishing at 8.40am when the children join everyone on the playground.

The club offers a toast, a range of cereals and juices and costs £3.50.

After School Club

This club starts at 3.20pm and can either finish at 4.20pm or 5.20pm.

It is run by Mr Watkin who arranges a full and fantastic range of activities from working on the farm, completing artwork to learning on the iPads.

The club costs £3.50 for one hour, or £7.00 for the full two hour session.

If you wish to book your child into either of these clubs, then please come into the office to collect a booking form.