Week 14

Dear Parent/ Carer,

One more week before our break for Christmas ! 
Last night's Christmas Fair at Haseltine was the last of our partnership Christmas Fairs this year.  All three of our schools are well along the road with Christmas Concerts and Nativities and we look forward to our final performances and parties next week.

I am able to reflect on a successful term for our partnership.  We have strengthened the links between our schools through teachers and leaders working in collaboration together for the benefit of their own schools, thereby benefiting the whole through the sharing of knowledge and expertise.  We are beginning to see some evidence of that collaboration through the work of our Pupil Parliaments/ Councils and through our initiatives around enhanced communications with parents and the communities.

Given that ofsted are very active in Lewisham at the moment, we have been expecting... and hoping for... an inspection at Haseltine.  The progress at the school since the beginning of the partnership has been rapid and sustained.  We are looking forward to welcoming ofsted and celebrating with them the fantastic progress that has been made at Haseltine.  All credit goes to Ms Brumby and the wonderfully dedicated staff at the school.

In a week that you may have read about Mr Gove's call to Headteachers to consider pay deductions for teachers taking industrial action short of strike action, I can only reflect upon the dedication, passion, enthusiasm and commitment to the children demonstrated by staff in all of our schools this term and in these final pre-Christmas weeks.

Have a lovely weekend,
Mark Wilson