Delivering Excellence Together - Hemingford Grey Primary School

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Hemingford Grey Primary School’s Development Journey

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Contextual Information Hemingford Grey Primary School is a 1.5 entry, Local Authority school in Cambridgeshire. Pupils are primarily White-British, with 16.3% of the school cohort being eligible for Pupil Premium, although this proportion is growing. KS1 is formed from three mixed Y1/Y2 classes.

Danielle Gaynor, now Co-Headteacher, was previously the KS1 Lead. The current KS1 Team is made up of four class teachers and four teaching assistants. There are three KS1 classrooms with children in these rooms having frequent, easy access to outdoor learning provision.

You can hear more from Danielle about their KS1 developments in this free webinar: Continuous Provision In KS1: How Do We Make It Work?

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The Bespoke Plan – An initial full day review of KS1 provision & practice – 3 half day consultancy sessions, blended online & onsite – A further half day consultancy school visit – Coaching for the KS1 Lead visioning, quality assurance & curriculum development – Room planning for all classrooms & shared areas, indoors & outdoors – Use of free EEx auditing tools – Tailored consultancy & bespoke training for the whole KS1 team – Notes of visit reports – A final visit to discuss transition to lower KS2 (Y3/4)

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Project Intent & Implementation Headteacher, Kirsten Marriott, reached out to Early Excellence using an online enquiry form, and I was delighted to be able to respond to her the very same day!

Kirsten was keen to explore how to drive forward improvement in KS1 pedagogy to better meet the needs of the children in her mixed aged KS1 classes – and we soon arranged a call with Kirsten and her KS1 Leader, Danielle Gaynor.

After initial contextual information sharing, we agreed key priorities around quality assuring current practice, strengthening pedagogy and provision, ensuring progression, and deepening the skills of the team.

A scope of work was planned led by Nova Robinson, one of our highly experienced KS1 Consultants. Nova worked closely with Danielle throughout the project, refining the support offered, based on the progress made.

Working closely with the Hemingford Grey team for over 18 months proved hugely successful in developing the practice and provision in KS1. Take a look at Dani’s feedback about the partnership with Early Excellence and the impact of working together!

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Evaluating the Impact How useful was the Strategic Review?

How effective was the Consultancy and CPD?

What was the impact on Teaching and Learning?

“Having an initial review was a “Our project was really “Since establishing full and great start point for the project! It personalised and having Nova effective Continuous Provision, gave a clear benchmark and throughout was just amazing! She our end of year outcomes have helped to hone the priorities. listened to us, talked about what increased! we could do, designed the Nova was quick to understand our learning environment spaces and The delivery of our curriculum is context, children and team took us by the hand through the more manageable and more dynamic. The review was training and developments. meaningful because it is now fully supportive in recognising the connected to the Continuous current strengths, and offered a Nova was flexible and responsive Provision. We now have clear rationale behind the next steps. in her approach, recognising the routines, timetables and The fact that Nova has had real progress we were making, approaches to documenting experience of teaching in KS1 and offering really practical ideas and learning and progress. mixed age classes with supporting our longer term Continuous Provision was very thinking.”

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“The developments have made “We have been able to optimise “We know the role of the adult is such a difference to our children! the learning space and now the vital. Our adults have become They are much more environment is also packed full of even more skilled at deepening independent, they’re leading their rich learning opportunities! learning moments and extending learning and are invested in their children’s play through questions own lines of enquiry!

The carefully planned and and high-quality interaction. resourced environment means The rethinking of our approach that every day our children get Evidencing learning has become has meant that children who the chance to be a designer, an so much more manageable, as perhaps found sitting at a desk artist, a writer, a scientist, a has fitting everything in. As a challenging, are now fully musician, a mathematician, a team we have more time to be engaged throughout the day – storyteller, a geographer or with the children, to engage with so now we have ALL children historian. They can apply and see their thinking, learning immersed in their learning and knowledge, practice and refine and progress.” they’re ALL making progress.” skills and become experts.”

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