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The Island Learning Trust have been shortlisted for Trust Executive Team of the Year
Tue 05 Mar 2024The MAT Excellence Awards are all about celebrating excellence and impact in school trusts.
The Island Learning Trust have been shortlisted for Trust Executive Team of the Year. This is an incredible achievement for The Island Learning Trust on it’s mission to ensure our children are ‘the best they can be’.“We are absolutely thrilled and honored to have been shortlisted in these awards which also follow our recent shortlisting at the National MAT Awards.” says Debbie Wheeler, CEO at The Island Learning Trust. “The strides forward our Trust has made against great adversity in recent years has been exceptional and showcase our Trust values – Resilience, Optimism, Ambition and Responsibility.”
An external advisor to our schools captured the essence of our Trust, our Trust Premium:
The Trust’s vision and values are embedded across each school. The key question: what is in the best interests of our children?” drives the Trust and each school. A culture of high expectation and aspiration is modelled by senior leaders who are passionate about what pupils can achieve and determined to put in place strategies to achieve this.
Behaviour is a strength. Each school is calm, orderly, and purposeful. Pupils have a positive attitude to learning. Reading is given high priority and there is a determination that every pupil will learn to read with every opportunity provided for them to access rich texts to support their enjoyment of reading.
Care and attention have been given by the Trust in maintaining school accommodation to a high standard. The schools are light, attractive places to learn and work. Classrooms are well resourced. This extends to the grounds and outdoor classrooms for the youngest pupils.Moreover:
- All schools demonstrate improving outcomes at the end of KS2.
- Many indicators falling within the top 90-99 percentile for attainment and progress
- Full, broad, and balanced curriculum is in place- with high quality enrichment- Forest and Beach Schools, wide range of clubs on offer and specialist sports coaching
- Our schools must have a culture of wellbeing, characterised by connection, inclusion, purpose, safety, recognition, and development.
- Leaders who care about their team, nurture, and develop them making their wellness a priority.
In addition, Phil Reynolds has been shortlisted for CFO of the Year at the same awards.
“Phil is highly regarded within the Trust thanks to his passion, positivity and remarkable energy for life and doing good. He is solution focused, thriving on challenge and creative thinking.” said Debbie.
Phil Reynolds responded “I am thrilled to be recognised but the recognition is a reflection of the whole team at the Trust who support me every day. So thank you to each and everyone one of you.”
Award winners will be announced at Optimus Education’s MAT Excellence Awards night on 27 June 2024.
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Video - Juniper Class Tree Planting
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Planting for the Future
Thu 29 Feb 2024Planting seeds of knowledge and growth today at Hugh Price Close in Murston with the amazing pupils from Juniper class!
Learning about the importance of trees and their impact on the environment while creating a legacy in our own back garden.
And they got to meet the Mayor too!
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World Book Week
Tue 27 Feb 2024The week commencing Monday 4th March 2024 is Book Week. We have a range of fun and exciting activities planned for the children. There will be a strong focus on reading for fun and enjoying reading anywhere!
There is the opportunity for children to dress up on both Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th March. Children can either dress up as their favourite character or wear their pyjama’s. Dress up as a character on one day and pyjamas the next or a character as both days, it’s completely up to them. Please ensure your child has suitable footwear: No flip flops, sandals or slippers as these won’t be suitable for the playground.
On Wednesday 6th March, we will be holding a book swap in school. Children are able to bring in a book from home and swap for another pre-loved book during the school day.
We will also be having a bedtime read on this day, 3:30pm-4.30pm. Parents can join their child in school to share some bedtime stories. Children are welcome to bring in their favourite books, a teddy and pillow if they wish, but we will have plenty of resources in school to use.
On Thursday 7th March we will be having Nickel Books attending in school, this will give the children an opportunity to purchase a book using their book tokens they will be given that week. We are also holding a coffee morning this day, 9am in our school hall. There will be drinks, cakes and pastries available for all. Please enter via the side gate.
There are many exciting activities happening throughout the week: book bistro, stop and read, designing bookmark, writing book reviews and much much more! You do not want to miss this fun packed week!
We look forward to seeing everyone’s costumes and welcoming everyone in for our book read and coffee morning. Thank you as always, for supporting us as we work together in our children’s education.
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STEM Week
Mon 26 Feb 2024I am excited to tell you that our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) week will be taking place on the week of 11th March this year, where we will be celebrating STEM with schools around the country. We have planned lots of opportunities for the children to become scientists. There will be investigations, assemblies and lessons that have a science link to them. In addition, we will host our very own Science Fair and winners from this will join a Collaboration Science Fair involving all of the TILT Trust Schools.
Our Science Fair, will be held on Thursday 14th March and winners from school will be selected. There will be a winner from all classes, Acorn, Birch, Cedar, Hawthorn, Juniper and Oak. There will be 4 winners who will then attend Minster Primary School on Friday 15th March.
For the Science Fair we are inviting each child to participate by creating a scientific project at home that will need to be brought into school ready for Thursday 14th March. The project itself can be simple but it must include scientific explanations including diagrams, pictures, written explanations and/or photos.
Ideas have been shared with children in assembly and there will be a club every lunch time for children who need help with ideas or writing up. There are websites detailed in this letter to support parents and children to create a project. There is a lot of information online – if you google search ‘science projects for children’. You can also visit our STEM page HERE.
We want the children to enjoy investigating the world around them and believe this is a great way to develop their scientific curiosity and understanding.
Parents are invited to Sunny Bank’s Science Fair on Thursday 14th March at 2:00pm as part of our termly parent open afternoon. This will be held in the main hall. We had such a fantastic number and range of projects entered last year and would like even more this year.
Thank you in advance as always for your continued support as partners in our children’s education.
Kind regards,
Mr Allen and Mrs Willing (Science Lead)
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STEM Week Science Project Ideas
Mon 26 Feb 2024Our very own Scientist, Mr Allen, conducted an engaging and informative assembly today to kick off our Science Projects for STEM Week. During the assembly, he showcased exciting science experiments and shared valuable tips and website resources to assist our pupils in creating outstanding experiments at home to bring in for our Science Fair, which will be held on Thursday 14th March at 2pm.
For ideas and help visit our STEM Week page HERE
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Video - Science Experiments for STEM Week
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Book of the Week
Mon 26 Feb 2024The Legend of Spud Murphy
Eoin Colfer
Quiz No. 206997 EN
Brothers Marty and Will are dragged to the library by their dad to get out of the house in the summer holidays. Will they survive the formidable librarian, who is rumoured to have a gas-powered spud gun under her desk to keep rowdy children in order?
We have multiple copies now available in our library (Mr B has hidden the spud gun)!
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Science Assembly
Sun 25 Feb 2024Tomorrow morning - NOT to be missed! 🧑🔬
