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  • Information during school closure

    Wed 22 Apr 2020

    Whilst school is currently closed for most pupils we are teaching children daily using the online learning platforms SeeSaw and Tapestry. If you have any questions around this please email the school on...

    admin@thomaswillingale.essex.sch.uk.

    The school office is open daily for online or telephone communication.

     

    Parents whose child has a place offered for September are being contacted via post this week. This will outline our plans for new starters. We are looking forward to seeing you in September. 

     

    Current parents we are sending you many communications via the school APP, please ensure you have this app and check it frequently. There are both Newslines and messages including lots of information about support for you and your children during this time.

    Stay Safe and well. 

    Thomas Willingale School and Nursery

  • We won an Award!

    Thu 21 Mar 2019
    Not only have we been accredited again with Healthy Schools status we were also nominated for, and won an award for our OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION to the health and well-being of our children and community. We were acknowledged for being a school who go above and beyond in the following areas:
    Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
    Pupil voice
    Emotional Health and wellbeing 
    Keeping Safe
    Physical Activity
    Healthy Eating
    Relationships
    Engagement with parents 

    Only two schools in Mid Essex were awarded this achievement and we are incredibly proud to be one of them. We work hard to ensure our children receive the best academic education but we also try to ensure their wellbeing is at the forefront of everything we do. 

  • Healthy Schools Award

    Fri 30 Nov 2018

    We are very pleased to have received the following letter 

    Dear Mrs Phillips,

     

    We are very pleased to inform you that at the recent Quality Assurance Group meeting, it was agreed that your school has continued to meet the criteria required to revalidate as a foundation healthy school.

     

    Well done on maintaining your Healthy School Status. You will be invited to the Award Ceremony which is being held this Spring term of 2019. We shall be sending you an invite as soon as the date and venue has been confirmed.

     

    Please kindly pass these congratulations to all members of your school community.

     

    Yours faithfully,

     

    Katie Polhill

    Essex Healthy Schools and Public Health Manager

    Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service

  • Thomas Willingale School and Nursery APP

    Mon 19 Nov 2018
    Don't forget to look at the school APP for our latest news and updates.

  • We are proud to announce that we have achieved the Silver Games Mark award!

    Thu 19 Jul 2018
    We are delighted to announce that we, Thomas Willingale School and Nursery, have achieved the School Games Silver Mark Award for the 2017/18 academic year.

    The School Games Mark is a Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

    We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

    As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

  • We are a GOOD school - OFSTED DECEMBER 2017

    Tue 12 Dec 2017

    Please take the time to read our recent Ofsted report, we are proud to share phrases such as ‘Pupils blossom at the school’, The quality of teaching, learning and assessment throughout the school is strong’, ‘Pupils conduct is exemplary’, ‘harmonious learning environments’, ‘leaders are tenacious in ensuring physical and emotional well-being of children’,‘parents are overwhelming supportive of the school’.

  • Dear Children

    Wed 01 Nov 2017

    School Development Plan 2017 – 2018

    Dear Children,

    Each year we look at how the last year has gone and like you, we also set ourselves targets to improve. We do this to make your school the VERY BEST it can be. We talk about what we should do to get better with the people who work here, your parents, our Governors and most importantly you! Then we write a very long plan.

    I wanted to share with you the things we have decided are most important for us to work on this year.

    Miss Phillips and all of the staff at Thomas Willingale School and Nursery

    We want to ensure that all of the children at TWS have high aspirations and high expectations of themselves and others.

    This Year:

    • We are working on ensuring children from all backgrounds achieve good attainment and progress. Sometimes this means we give some children some extra support to make sure they get a fair chance.
    • We are working to make sure children who need extra help get the right help and the adults in and out of school know how best to support them. We are making sure that these adults get some excellent training so they can do this.
    • We are giving children who need it more time to discuss their learning and how to improve with their teachers.
    • We are making sure our curriculum helps you to understand better how and why they learn so that you are actively engaged in your learning.
    • We want you to be independent and resilient learners, who believe in themselves and have growth mind-sets. (We are doing this through things like running enterprise topics, brain builder homework, chose your challenge, peer feedback and marking, working in triads and outside visitors inspiring us).
    • As leaders we are making sure we use our time best so we can ensure that support the adults in school to make sure our children get the best possible teaching and learning they can. We are doing this by making sure our monitoring is useful and supportive and that people get time to help others.

     

    We want to make sure that we become an even better school

    This year:

    • We are working on improving the way we teach maths reasoning, reading fluency and comprehension.
    • We want all of our children to be fluent readers but we also want to make sure all of our children love reading.
    • We want to make sure children have the ability to become masters of their learning, by ensuing you have opportunities to explore it in lots of different ways and be capable of explaining your reasoning and thinking.
    • We want to make sure all of our children know how to move on in their learning by being clear to you the steps to being successful.
    • We will ensure we have exciting books to read in and out of school, we will provide extra spaces in school to read for pleasure such as the reading house. We are forming a partnership with some other schools to find the best possible way to teach reading fluency and comprehension.
    • We want to make sure you have the ability to become masters of your learning, by ensuing you have opportunities to explore it in lots of different ways so that you capable of explaining your reasoning and thinking.
    • We want to make sure everyone likes to write and we want to give you more purpose for writing so that it is meaningful.
    • We want to make sure we give children opportunities to write in all their subjects and we want to celebrate this when it is really good.
    • We are making sure all of our interventions are successful and that the children on them do well.
    • We want our parents to feel welcome in the school and know how to help their children at home.

    We want to make sure children attend school regularly, happily and that they value education.

    This year:

     

    • We are raising the expectation to win our whole school attendance award to 97% or above.
    • We are continuing to give out a termly attendance prize and celebrate attendance in assemblies.
    • We are working with families who need support to get children to school and on time
    • We are using a new company to help us to manage attendance; parents will receive official warning letters or fines if attendance is poor.
    • We are holding parents to account where attendance is poor.
    • We want to ensure you and your parents value education and have growth mind-sets.
    • We are working on ensuring you feel confident, by giving strategies and processes to help if you are unhappy, feel unsafe or are having friendship issues. We are launching a huge campaign on keeping safe and anti-bullying and we will have 20 trained peer mediators in school. We are working with highly skilled police officers to teach you and your parents on staying safe online.

     

    We want to make sure our Early Years children have access to a varied and exciting vocabulary and that they are all challenged

    This year:

    • We are continuing to develop our outside areas so that they are engaging and stimulating
    • We focussing on reading and want all children to complete at least Phase 2 in phonics by the end of Reception.
    • We are ensuring children have exciting reading opportunities and time for discussion
    • We are using lots of exciting language with the children and are encouraging them to use it themselves
    • We are giving some children who need some support, extra time with a teacher to help them talk about their learning
    • We are making sure our topics and learning opportunities engage both girls and boys equally.
    • We are ensuring that there are lots of spaces around the EYFS area for children to practise their writing.
    • We want all of our children to a have a ‘bank’ of stories and rhymes they can retell and adapt.
    • We want to ensure that children who are working above their age are given the chance to become masters.

     

  • The Circus is coming back to TWS

    Fri 20 Oct 2017 Miss Phillips

    I am very pleased to announce that this years attendance reward for children who get 97% or above by the end of the year is 'HAPPY's CIRCUS'.

    Our very own big top on the school field in September 2018!

  • Newsletter

    Fri 29 Sep 2017 Miss Phillips
    Our latest Newsletter is now available on this website or on the APP. Enjoy some pictures taken around the school!

  • Staff video for our leavers

    Mon 14 Aug 2017
    Download the APP to see our funny end of term film made especially for our 2017 leavers. See the teachers behaving badly!
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