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We had a very special visitor this half term and certainly one of the best dressed!

The High Sheriff of Derbyshire, Theresa Peltier popped in to meet some of the team and talk about collaborating in the future

 

 

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Before the recent floods, students attending our outdoor education centre have been making the most of our riverside location to get some oar-some watersport experience. Pupils tackling the physical section of their Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme have been learning about Paddle sports and how to assess risk when in a water environment.

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As a collection of schools, we have been working hard with colleagues in the local authority to develop a connected set of provisions to provide for children with social, emotional and mental health needs across Derby City. Part of this work has to been to create an individual identity for each of our schools.

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Our pupils receive expert teaching, re-engage with learning and begin to fulfil their potential, according to Government inspectors. Children attending the Cedar Grove site, which is to be renamed The Castle School from September, were also found to be calm and orderly in lesson and social time according to the team from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) which rated the school ‘good’.

The Kingsmead School is being restructured to create an additional 84 spaces for children who have been excluded from mainstream school or have medical issues or special needs which prevent them from attending.

Derby County fan Tyler Colebourne was ‘speechless’ when he received a video message from Ramsboss Paul Warne congratulating him on his school achievements.

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It has been a challenging year for everyone in education and The Kingsmead School has negotiated this complex time alongside a period of restructuring. We are constantly looking to reshape ourselves to meet the needs of families and schools in the city and beyond. With this in mind, we have weathered, and plan to keep weathering, the considerable pressures facing schools.

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Working with the Local Authority, we have been working hard in the background to develop our collection of schools. From November 2022, our two PRU’s will join together to create one KS2 – 4 PRU at the Bridge Street Site.

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Empowering poems by two teenagers from Castle Education Centre have been chosen from thousands of others to be published in a poetry book. Kye Purcell Conboy, 16, and Aisha Russell, 15, wrote the poems during an English class with teacher Kat Christopoulos.

Teaching assistant Paul Allen is bowling students over after they discovered he is not only a trailblazer for disability sport but also represented his country at cricket.

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