Dear Visitor,
Thank you for visiting our website. Whether you are a current parent, a prospective parent, one of our children or just coming to visit us for a few days we hope you find what you are looking for. If you require any further information or would like to look around the school, please do contact us, as words cannot give the full picture of the school, its atmosphere and the work of the pupils and staff.
Our broad aims for the pupils at Southwater Junior Academy are to provide high quality educational opportunities in order to increase their knowledge, experiences and understanding. We aim to create a school in which pupils can discover their strengths and talents, love learning and realise their potential.
Our end of Key Stage results continue to rise, with attainment well above national average, in reading, writing, spelling punctuation and grammar and in Maths.
Whilst we put English and Maths at the heart of our curriculum we believe primary education should be broad and balanced. Our children receive high quality specialist music, PE and foreign language provision and over 60% of our pupils play a musical instrument.
One of our aims for 2013/2014 was to bring the standard of sport and ICT up to the very highest level. Our sports clubs include football, netball, cricket, hockey, tag rugby, gymnastics, table tennis, stoolball, rounders, athletics, basketball and dance. Our full-time PE instructor has ensured that there has been a noticeable increase in pupils enjoyment of PE, increase levels of participation in our extra-curricular clubs and improved competitiveness of our teams, both for girls and boys. In fact our teams won significantly more sports tournaments than any other local school, culminating in the receiving the highly regarded PE Mark.
Regarding ICT we have invested time, money and personnel to ensure that our pupils have access to the latest technology and a curriculum that is purposeful and challenging. We have a recently installed computer suite, brought in tablet technology and have adapted our curriculum to include computer programming, digital design and video production.
I hope this introduction gives you a flavour of the school.
We hope you will have time to visit and see for yourself why we have a reputation as a school where pupils are happy, cared for and where there are high standards of work and behaviour.
Regards,
Anne Ratsey
Headteacher
Thank you for visiting our website. Whether you are a current parent, a prospective parent, one of our children or just coming to visit us for a few days we hope you find what you are looking for. If you require any further information or would like to look around the school, please do contact us, as words cannot give the full picture of the school, its atmosphere and the work of the pupils and staff.
Our broad aims for the pupils at Southwater Junior Academy are to provide high quality educational opportunities in order to increase their knowledge, experiences and understanding. We aim to create a school in which pupils can discover their strengths and talents, love learning and realise their potential.
Our end of Key Stage results continue to rise, with attainment well above national average, in reading, writing, spelling punctuation and grammar and in Maths.
Whilst we put English and Maths at the heart of our curriculum we believe primary education should be broad and balanced. Our children receive high quality specialist music, PE and foreign language provision and over 60% of our pupils play a musical instrument.
One of our aims for 2013/2014 was to bring the standard of sport and ICT up to the very highest level. Our sports clubs include football, netball, cricket, hockey, tag rugby, gymnastics, table tennis, stoolball, rounders, athletics, basketball and dance. Our full-time PE instructor has ensured that there has been a noticeable increase in pupils enjoyment of PE, increase levels of participation in our extra-curricular clubs and improved competitiveness of our teams, both for girls and boys. In fact our teams won significantly more sports tournaments than any other local school, culminating in the receiving the highly regarded PE Mark.
Regarding ICT we have invested time, money and personnel to ensure that our pupils have access to the latest technology and a curriculum that is purposeful and challenging. We have a recently installed computer suite, brought in tablet technology and have adapted our curriculum to include computer programming, digital design and video production.
I hope this introduction gives you a flavour of the school.
We hope you will have time to visit and see for yourself why we have a reputation as a school where pupils are happy, cared for and where there are high standards of work and behaviour.
Regards,
Anne Ratsey
Headteacher
