Posted on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Online Safety Guidance for Parents Supporting children to stay safe whilst online is an essential element of safeguarding children when using technologies such as computers, tablets, mobile phones, social media or games consoles. The Internet is an important and necessary part of everyday life, so children must be supported to learn how to manage and […]
Posted on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Attendance “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” Earl of Chesterfield Highgate Primary School believes that regular school attendance is the key to enabling children to maximise the educational opportunities available to […]
Posted on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
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Posted on: Monday 22nd May 2017
I blogged a few weeks ago on the pending crisis facing schools through the introduction of ‘fairer’ funding – fairer in the sense that almost all schools will be facing real term reductions in budgets. So with an election looming, it’s a chance to get school funding back on the agenda and for the politicians […]
Posted on: Tuesday 16th May 2017
Whichever way you look at it, our school community is blessed with incredible diversity. I’m yet to plot it on a map, but I suspect there are very few parts of the world that do not have a connection with one of our families. Our most recent language survey shows there are 42 different […]
Posted on: Monday 8th May 2017
I was lucky enough to visit the Hockney exhibition at the Tate this weekend, where it was a privilege to spend time amongst such an extensive range of impressive and uplifting work. It was moving to experience the incredible colour in his painting that makes its audience feel rather euphoric. However what really struck me is […]
Posted on: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
As I mentioned in an earlier blog, these days schools are under increasing pressure to deliver on standards. The standards children attain in reading, writing and maths at the end Year 2 and Year 6, are published by the Department for Education with the data presented in all sorts of ways – including the Raiseonline […]
Posted on: Tuesday 25th April 2017
You may have read in the Ham and High that Bellway Homes, the construction company behind the ambitious housing development on Church Road, has very generously agreed to sponsor all the materials for our outside stage. I’ve been liaising with representatives from Bellway for several months now, which is about the amount of time […]
Posted on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last week’s fun run was a wonderful event, brilliantly organised by parent David Musgrove. The fact that it brought our community together, raised so much money for the Family Centre and increased awareness of this fantastic community resource, was nothing short of astonishing. However the thing that was even more impressive was the quality of […]
Posted on: Monday 20th March 2017
Yesterday’s fun run was a remarkable achievement. To have so many members of our community – staff, children, parents and grandparents, charging around Alexandra Palace and Durnsford Park on a Sunday morning to raise funds for our Family Centre, says such a lot about our community and left me feeling extremely proud. To understand the […]
