Mr Stallard has worked with the Foyle Foundation to receive a grant in order to diversify the representation of our reading offer around school. Through the use of that grant via Mr Stallard’s collaboration with A New Chapter bookstore, we now have a vast array of diverse representation around our classrooms and in the library in books with authors and characters from different countries, cultures, religions, genders, orientations, family dynamics, careers and backgrounds. This reading offer contributes to our goal for all children to receive a stimulating curriculum enriched in equity and diversity, understanding its importance and feeling comfortable discussing other cultures and backgrounds.

We are lucky enough to have very talented staff at New Village.

Because of this, some of our staff go outside of our school community and work with other schools, offering them advice in their areas of expertise.

Miss R Emery – is a Specialist Leader of Education for SEN

Mrs S Harrison – is an external writing moderator, offering guidance and assessing others assessments across the authority. She is also a Trauma Informed Champion – meaning she works alongside children and staff members offering advice and strategies on improving trauma led behaviours.

Mrs L Hobbs is a moderator for EYFS.

Miss L Wales is currently supporting other schools with their understanding of the brain science and resulting behaviours.

In collaboration with Teach First, we are currently developing leadership in school, ensuring that guidance is being provided to ensure our staff members are receiving quality and relevant CPD.

All staff have worked with Teach First to develop vocabulary in school.

Teach First also provide supervision to some staff members, this is to ensure mental wellbeing is being addressed.

Miss Greaves is our in school Qualified Forest Schools Practitioner.

She is qualified to take the children into the great outdoors and work with them on survival techniques, team building skills, den building, fire building and outdoor plant/veg growth.

She is currently improving the outdoor learning area.

Groups of KS1 children are currently accessing the Forest School Activities once a week and the aim is that all children will have access to this in the short term.

The Music Service provides whole class instrumental tuition, taking advantage of the special funding provided by the Government to work in this specialised way. Projects including String, Woodwind, Guitar, Brass and Samba lessons. At New Village we focus upon mastering the guitar! Pupils in Year 4 have a weekly lesson of around one hour in which they begin to learn to play an instrument, free of charge, as well as developing their basic musical skills and singing ability. No music teaching is charged at New Village.

Mrs S Harrison is qualified to make assessments of children’s reading and to look at their eye movements, their reading speed and their comprehension abilities. Once the assessments have been completed, L’Explore quality assess the assessments, make suggestions on interventions required and also, in some cases, they can make recommendations for further assessments that may be of medical need, optometry or dyslexic tendancies.

To broaden our pupils’ experiences and to give all the children at New Village a chance to consider different faiths we liaise with lo9cal church societies who work and present their ideas in school

We are a RWI school and teach our children to read through phonics. We are lucky enough to work in collaboration with RWI to have Staff Development Days.

RWI visit and quality assure the teaching of phonics in school, they offer staff training, intervention ideas and keep the phonic teaching current and up-to-date with new developments.