It has been an absolute pleasure to have been able to invite so many parents back into the school.  The Stay and... Read/Learn/Solve sessions that have so many of you participating in learning opportunities with your children each week, the reintroduction of class assemblies, and the fantastic community event that took place earlier this week.  Our pupil leaders really enjoyed taking the opportunities to tell you about their roles and show you around the school, and parents shared that by learning about specific elements of the way we work helped them to get a better sense of their children’s everyday experience.  We hope to see even more of you at the next events that we will be continuing to run throughout the year.

Get Involved

Two of the elements that were shared yesterday were looking for more involvement from our parent community. 

• The Ainslie Wood Partnership (AWP) has been re-formed and is looking for volunteers to help with organising events and fundraising opportunities.  Click here to register your interest in joining the AWP.
• The Parent Racist Incident Response Team (P-RIRT) is a new team that will be formed to quality assure the school response to racist or race related issues that may occur at our school.  This group needs people from all backgrounds to share their views to help us ensure we are running our school in the most equitable way possible.  Click here to register your interest or to find out more about the P-RIRT.

New Parent Governor

I am pleased to announce that we have a new Parent Governor, Jesper Hansen, who will represent our parent community and help to hold the school to account for the way we work and the outcomes for your children.

Following the request for parent governor volunteers I sent out at the start of this term, no one offered their services.  For this reason, I contacted the parent who came second place at the previous parent election last year and luckily, Jesper said yes. 

Find out more about Jesper and the rest of our Governing Body here.

School Development Focuses 2022-23

One of the jobs of the Governing Body, is to make sure that Ainslie Wood continues to provide a strong education and experience for our children as well as continuing to develop.  This year, the agreed development targets for the school are:

1. Curriculum

That the Early Years Curriculum supports and challenges our youngest children so they can become confident, independent learners and that Project Based Learning is further developed in Years 1-6, so that children develop real life skills in real life contexts.

2. Consistency of Practice

That all staff are supported to deliver the Ainslie Wood curriculum to our expected high standards – this is particularly important as we have so many new members of staff across the school, and that leaders of all teams and subjects have the right support to develop their leadership skills positively.

3. Community

That Ainslie Wood and the Ainslie Wood Community are re-connected in order to have a positive impact on the pupils, their families and the workings of the school

We look forward to sharing more about the progress we are making towards our development focuses and our vision throughout the coming year.