Welcome to Croftway Primary School
Welcome to the Croftway Primary School Website.
We hope you enjoy your visit today!
We hope that you find what you are looking for today!
There are lots of things to look at and find out about.
EASTER
I find it a little frightening that we are already 2 terms into this school year. It has been a challenge this year for all of us. It has been a difficult year in particular for our Y5's. Mr Stubbins has been absent for a long time and it seems that he is still a long way from recovery. Mrs Bell is leaving us at Easter to have her new baby and she'll be returning, hopefully, just before the end of the summer term. We've essentially got a new 'team' in place for Y5 after Easter. Mrs Walker (Y5B) and Miss Johnson (Y5S) are teaching the two Y5 classes. Mr Wills is also part of the Y5 team next term. He's teaching the nurture group every morning and taking science as well as teaching in other parts of the school. I hope you will all give your FULL support to our new Y5 team next term.
We will announce details to enable all Y5 children to access 'Education City' from home from next term. Each child will be set up with their own login and access code. We have run a small trial - and IT WORKS!
Home Access and how it works
Home Access is the government programme which will help to ensure that more children in state-maintained education in England have access to technology at home to support learning. The programme was born out of the recognition that there are still a significant number of learners who lack access to a computer and the internet at home. The programme will benefit over 270,000 households that currently lack access by March 2011 and initially the programme will target learners in years 3 to 9 inclusive.
So for US it is for families that have children here in Y3,4,5 (and next year Y6).
The Home Access programme aims to ensure that it can best meet the individual needs of a variety of learners, as well as taking into account the need for flexibility for local tailoring. To achieve this there are a number of ways in which families can benefit under the programme.
We are currently working on a scheme whereby school can operate as an 'aggregator' and bring all of the parents who qualify under the scheme to get a computer, some software and a (mobile) broadband internet connection together and make a single project RATHER than individual parents applying. It will be MUCH more powerful for us as a school to help support parent swith this and it will allow us to use internet technology to help support children with their learning at home and also keep in touch with you as parents as well!
I'm very excited about this initiative. I think it could help us to bring home and school closer together.
There are several things that we are currently developing - like this new schools website and we've also invested in home access for some of the educational 'subscription' websites that we use in school such as Education City. These resources will help you to help your children with their learning whilst they are at home.
If you want to find out a bit more about 'HOME ACCESS' then follow this link:-
www.homeaccess.org.uk/
