About Our School

Head Teacher: Mrs. C.A. Radcliffe.

Chair of Governors: Mrs. H. Brereton.

School Hours 8.55 am - 12 noon 1.00pm - 3.15 pm

Cashes Green Primary School
Hillcrest Road
Cashes Green
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 4NL

Telephone: 01453 763598

Fax: 01453 763598

E-mail:
admin@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk

www.cashesgreenschool.co.uk

Introduction
Cashes Green Primary School is a community school situated on the western side of Stroud, halfway up Randwick Hill. We are blessed in having wonderful views of Stroud's valleys and hills from our windows.

The school, which was opened in 1957, provides excellent facilities for our children. At present we have seven mixed ability classes catering for 158 children.

We believe that one of our main strengths is our caring, happy atmosphere. We know our children well and are sensitive to their needs.

We believe that education needs to be a partnership between the home and the school and we work very hard to develop mutual understanding and trust with our parents. We will always make time for parents who wish to discuss any particular problems, either with the class teacher or with the Head.

We are fortunate in having a playgroup run by parents, which operates in one of our classrooms. One of the benefits of this arrangement is the way it helps to prepare children for school.

Cashes Green has a talented, committed teaching staff who provide a full, varied and well-structured curriculum. We aim for a stimulating environment where we present our children with a wide range of exciting and challenging experiences to enable them to develop as rounded individuals and to reach their full potential. Education is not just about intellectual development, important though that is. It is also about developing personal, spiritual, social, physical and artistic skills.

C.A.Radcliffe
Head Teacher

Vision Statement
The staff and governors have set out the following vision statement for our school:

Our aim is to create a happy and secure environment to
provide a wide variety of challenging and stimulating
experiences both in and out school, so that all children
can enjoy learning and achieve their full potential.
We aim to help our children be ready to meet the
demands of the twenty-first century and to learn
to be confident in a wider international community.

School Aims
More detailed aims have also been agreed as follows:
· To ensure that all children achieve the highest possible academic standards.
· To maintain a commitment to continuous school improvement among the staff and governors.
· To make sure that every child's self esteem is positively enhanced by providing caring and concerned community, where every child feels appreciated and from which the child receives understanding, help and advice.
· To ensure that children are helped to appreciate the wonder of the world in which we live, and to adjust to its fast changing conditions with its opportunities and its problems.
· To help each child to learn to live in a community and show concern and consideration for others.
· To develop a lively and enquiring mind, encouraging each child to acquire knowledge, skills and practical abilities and the will to use them.
· To help the child to develop attitudes such as independence, confidence, perseverance, responsibility, self-criticism and open-mindedness.

Best Value Statement
The Governors of Cashes Green Primary School are committed to achieving Best Value in all decisions made. We use the principles of Best Value as they apply to securing continuous improvement in this school and will:

Regularly review the functions of the school, challenging how and why services are provided and setting targets and performance indicators for improvement; Monitor outcomes and compare performance with similar schools and within the school; Consult appropriate stakeholders before major decisions are made; and Promote fair competition through quotations and tenders to ensure that goods and services are secured in the most economic, efficient and effective way.

We will strive to ensure that the school is using its resources effectively to meet the needs of pupils.

We will submit our Best Value statement with the annual budget plan. The progress of the annual budget plan and the Best Value statement will be monitored with the school improvement plan in order to determine the extent of continuous improvement.

The school has in place a strategy and a set of guidelines, updated annually, which will ensure that Best Value will be reviewed and demonstrated.

Staff
Head Teacher Mrs. C A Radcliffe
Deputy Head Teacher Mrs. J Dwight

Class Teachers
Mrs. B Cranswick
Mrs. J. Hall
Mrs. R Gibbs
Mrs. J Jones
Mrs. C. Mosses
Miss N. Briner

Support Staff
Nursery Nurse Mrs J .Harding
Learning Support Worker Mrs. K Legg
Learning Support Worker Mrs. C Ward.
Learning Support Worker Mrs. C Tompkins
Learning Support Worker Mrs. S O'Brien
Learning Support Worker Miss K Lewis
Learning Support Worker Mrs. J Mutton
Admin. Officer Mrs. J Gregory
Cleaner in Charge Mrs. S Griffin
Cleaner Mrs. S. Spiteri
Cleaner Mrs. M Boucher
Catering Supervisor Mrs. J. Lawrence
Catering Mrs. S Pegg
Midday Supervisor Mrs. S Clutterbuck
Midday Supervisor Mrs. S Cropton
Midday Supervisor Mr. G Brereton
Road Safety Warden Mr. M Spring
After School Playleader Miss F Cripps
After School Playworker Miss A Glover
Breakfast Club Supervisor Mrs F Barker

Class Organisation  
  
At present we have seven mixed ability classes organised as follows: 

Total 158

Each class teacher is responsible for the whole curriculum within his or her own class.
There are occasions though when our class teachers use their special talents with other classes.

The Governing Body
The Governing Body is responsible for determining the aims and overall conduct of the school with a view to helping the school provide the best possible education for its pupils. In doing so it must comply with the requirements laid down by the Department for Education and Employment and Gloucestershire Education Authority.

The Governing Body currently consists of fourteen governors, one of whom is the Head Teacher. Four parent governors are elected by the parents: one teacher governor by the teachers: one non-teaching staff member by the staff three County Council governors nominated by the County Council; one minor authority governor appointed by the parish council and four co-opted governors chosen by the governing body themselves. Governors normally serve for four years at a time. New legislation means that there will be changes to this structure before September 1999 to increase parental representation among other things.

A list of the present Governors is given on the next page, together with addresses and telephone numbers. Please feel free to make contact if you have any problems or queries.

Governors Views
Most of the pupils starting in our Reception Class are likely to receive more than half of their full time education at this school. During this time they will grow from small children to near teenagers and their development during these crucial years will set the path for the rest of their lives.

You will have read on page three of this section the Vision Statement and aims for the school which make it clear that within a happy, caring and secure environment each child will be encouraged to develop to their full potential in all areas.

We have an excellent Head Teacher and a talented and dedicated staff, who continue to develop the caring atmosphere which is a tradition of the school, whilst working to raise standards of academic achievement.

We are of the firm belief that this is a good, well run school where all children can thrive but a child's education is a partnership between the school, the child and their parents. Those who will thrive most are those whose parents take an active interest in all of their child's school activities.

The Governing Body - November 2003
Head Teacher
Mrs. C Radcliffe
Teaching Staff Governor
Mrs J Hall
Non-Teaching Staff Governor.
Mrs. K. Legg.
Parents
Mrs. B Tempest..
Mr. P. Meadows
Mr. D. Dale
Mrs. J Baker
County Council
Mr. T. Parker
Mrs. H. Brereton
Co-opted
Mr. D. Northcott.
Mr. A Wright.
Minor Authority
Mr. I. Walker

Elected Officers
Chair of Governors
Mrs. H. Brereton
Vice Chair
Mr A Wright
Clerk to Governors
Mrs. J. Meadows

Breakfast Club
We operate a Breakfast Club facility available to all the children at school. The club is housed in the newly re-furbished flat, which is situated adjacent to the school hall. It is open from 8.15 to 8.45am and the children are offered cereal, toast (with or without topping), yoghurt, tea or fresh orange. The price is £1 per session. Details available from the school office.

Cashes Care Kids Club(Our after school facility for busy or working parents.)
This club is managed by qualified staff:-a play-leader and play-worker who have designed and established a creative, motivating and happy environment where our children can be occupied at the end of the school day in safe surroundings while they wait for parents etc. Activities such as art/craft, various sports, puzzles, computers, videos and play station are but a few on offer. The children also receive a snack and drink and are able to use the school equipment and facilities.

Playgroup
Situated in the hub of the school and benefiting from this in every conceivable way, the Playgroup provides an early years nursery education to the children prior to their reception year in school. Current funding arrangements mean that parents have to pay a small fee for each session until the term after the child is 3 years old. Once they are 4 then your child is given a free place which is subsidised through a government grant. Parents no longer need to apply for a nursery voucher.

Following Government guidelines on standards for nursery education, our curriculum is based on six learning outcomes for areas of learning as follows:

Core
1. Language and Literacy
2. Mathematics
3. Personal and Social Development
Plus
4.Physical Development
5. Creative Development
6. Knowledge and Understanding of the World.

We choose to deliver these learning outcomes in a full, varied and structured programme largely based on topic work with an appropriate balance of child initiated and adult directed activities. Our aim is to foster the all round development of the child.

Prior to entry into school children are invited to experience school activities and to meet with the Reception teacher on more than one occasion. Parents/Carers actively support the group through its committee and can choose to help on a daily rota.

Mrs Tracie Clements is the play leader. She has the PATA Childcare and Education certificate in child care and has an Adult Teaching Qualification.

The Playgroup recently received an excellent report from Ofsted inspectors who concluded that it 'provides an excellent learning environment for pre-school children', with no significant weaknesses. Main findings are that we provide a generally good quality of pre-school. We are excellent at fostering creative development, physical development and knowledge and understanding of the world. We are excellent at Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

Secondary Transfer
Children leave us at the end of Key Stage Two (at the end of the academic year in which they are eleven). There is a wide choice of secondary schools in the area to which parents can apply for a place and we work hard to ensure that there is a smooth transfer to whichever school offers the child one.

Children who left us in the last two years went to the following schools:

Archway 43
Maidenhill 9
Thomas Keble 4
St Peters 1
Marling 1
The Crypt Grammer 1