HEALING MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST

NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2019

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Healing Multi-Academy Trust Update

On the 1st September our Trust grew to include 9

schools as we welcomed Lincoln Castle Academy

and Ermine Primary Academy into Healing Multi—

Academy Trust.

Our Trust is now established in two geographic

locations with 5 schools and a Teaching School

in Grimsby and 4 schools and a SCITT in Lincoln.

I would like to welcome all staff in both schools to

our Trust and know we will all work together for

the benefit of all our pupils.

I would also like to welcome our new Secondary

School Improvement Lead, Mia Sneyd.

2019 Headline Results

Congratulations to every school on the results

your pupils achieved in the summer.

Key Stage 2

Results remained very high in our established

‘good’ schools with 74% of pupils achieving the

combined ‘expected standard’. This remains well

above the national average of 65%.

Our improving Primary Schools had another year

with increasing numbers of pupils achieving the

combined expected standard. This year 48%

achieved this standard, up from 43% and 31%

over the last two years,

Key Stage 4

In GCSEs, the results at Healing School remained

outstanding with 57% of pupils achieving at least

a grade 5 in English and Maths and 82%

achieving at least grade 4 in both subjects. The

progress 8 score was +0.44.

These successes are the result of a fantastic

team effort from everybody who works in any of

our schools.

Well done.

Mark Knapton

Inside this issue:

Trust 1

Ermine Primary Academy 2

Great Coates Primary

School 3

Hartsholme Academy 4

Healing School -

A Science Academy 5

Healing Primary 6

Lincoln Castle Academy 7

St Giles 8

Woodlands 9

William Barcroft Junior 10

ERMINE PRIMARY ACADEMY

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As a new school to the Trust I wanted to start by sharing a little bit about the foundations we are building on at Ermine. Just prior to joining in the summer term we created a new set of values that are now well embedded throughout school. The teachers, children, governors and parents have all been heard using them in everyday language and they have had a huge impact on school life. It has also improved the look of the school and given a real sense of pride.

Our School Values

Respectful

We value relationships and treat others with empathy and compassion.

We respect our environment and support and care for each other.

Kind

We use positive language, celebrate effort, and help each other to achieve through adversity, failure and exploration.

Proud

We are proud of the community to which we belong and celebrate everyone’s achievements.

We are proud to produce work to the best of our ability.

Resilient

We are inquisitive, we explore and take risks.

We make mistakes, we bounce back. We thrive on challenge.

Aspiring

We enjoy freedom to express our ideas.

We have ambition to learn and discover, to be the best we can be.

Bringing Learning to Life

This term we have taken advantage of our August start and the nice weather to enrich our curriculum and open the eyes of our younger children to the amazing historical city they live in – Lincoln. Year 2 boarded the open top bus and went on a tour all around Lincoln, visiting the Castle, Cathedral and Newport Arch to name a few. The children had the most incredible time and have since produced a whole host of work from the experience.

Year 1 did not have the luxury of the bus to travel on but instead took a short walk to the Bailgate area to look at the local architecture and compare houses from the past to modern day.

Year 4 have kept the theme of Lincolnshire going when they visited the Showground for a whole host of activities including; making bread with locally produced flour, understanding how sand dunes are formed, bush craft, harvesting potatoes, pizza making with a Lincolnshire flag topping and flower arranging (with Lincolnshire grown flowers of course!). The children were amazed by the rich variety of heritage, culture, creativity and job opportunities that beautiful Lincolnshire offers.

GREAT COATES PRIMARY SCHOOL

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MacMillan Coffee Afternoon

We hosted our annual coffee afternoon in support of Macmillan. It is always well supported both by staff and families. The staff provided cakes and some of our children made pizza. A mixture of children and staff sold the cakes and pizza to the huge amount people who came to support it.

Our parents and families are so supportive of events like these. They were queuing out the door. In total we raised £170.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

One of our key development areas this year is around reading and trying to get the children more engaged in books. Our aim is to make the reading elements of literacy teaching more hands on and practical so the children have fun with the books they are reading. We include our whole school in this, including Nursery.

In Nursery the children have been reading the book ‘The Tiger Who came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr. The Nursery children decided to invite a tiger to a tea party. They planned the tea party themselves and had a really great time. In Key Stage One the children have been enjoying reading ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. They have designed and made their very own Supertato to help them learn about lists and captions and then will be moving onto writing their own adventure story with their Supertato as the main character.

Development of Afterschool Clubs

After listening closely to our parents and what they would like, we decided to set up an after school club. It opened in September and interest is increasing week by week. It opens to 5:45 each night and is run out of our studio space. The children enjoy it and the parents appreciate it. This is part of our long term plan to develop our school into a community resource and builds on the establishment of a mother and toddler group.

We have also increased out enrichment club offer and now there is a wider range of clubs taking place after school. There is a wider variety including football, hockey, singing, dancing and arts and crafts. Our aim is to change them each term to allow the children access to different sports and skills and also keep it interesting.

HARTSHOLME ACADEMY

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Nursery Extension

During the summer holidays we had some building work completed to extend our Nursery. We have almost doubled the inside space available for the Nursery children and it has given us improved access to our outdoor provision. The extended space has been thoroughly enjoyed by the new Nursery children who have settled really well into their new environment. We are looking forward to opening the doors for our first ‘Stay and Play’ session where parents will come into the new space and work with their children on some Halloween themed activities.

New KS2 Reading Programme - ‘Bug Club’

At the start of term we launched an exciting new reading programme across Key Stage 2, ‘Bug Club’. Bug Club works around a five day cycle, where children have the opportunity to develop their understanding, consistency and confidence when answering a range of comprehension questions. Bug Club ensures an excellent exposure to a wide range of text type, covering an array of topics such as Dinosaurs, Oliver Twist, Fairytales, Myths and much more. Bug Club has been a great success for both staff and most importantly, the children, who have expressed huge enthusiasm and passion for reading!

Modeshift STARS Bronze Award

Modeshift STARS is the national schools awards scheme that has been established to recognise schools that have demonstrated excellence in supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable travel. The scheme encourages schools across the country to join in a major effort to increase levels of sustainable and active travel in order to improve the health and well-being of children and young people. We are delighted to announce that we have recently achieved our bronze award!

HEALING SCHOOL A SCIENCE ACADEMY

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Roadshow Promotes Oxbridge Pupils’ aspirations were raised in a visit to Healing School by Lincolnshire students at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

A roadshow presentation was given to pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11 by Oxbridge Schools’ Liaison Officer, Katie Osmon and local Oxbridge graduate, Alice Knapton. Katie explained how the aim of the roadshow was to inform pupils of the benefits of a university education and, in particular, Oxford and Cambridge.

“We want to raise their aspirations about future opportunities available to them and it is hoped pupils will feel more confident in applying to the top universities in the country,” she said.

Katie and Alice worked with the pupils in small groups and answered questions about transitioning to university. They explained about student life and highlighted the opportunities available.

Year 11 pupil Benjamin Foster-Smith said “I have just moved into Year 11 and I am now seriously considering my future after I leave Healing next year. The presentation has been inspiring because it gives a good insight into what to expect when both applying for and attending university. University life really appeals to me. I want to study Music and computer sciences at 6th form and go on to university from there.”

Principal Mrs Dewland thanked the Oxbridge team for visiting Healing. “It’s about encouraging all of our pupils to make the most of their talents,” she said. “For quite a number, this will mean attending top universities in the future. The roadshow has, hopefully, planted seeds in some of their minds that Oxbridge is not an exclusive club and could be for them.”

Outstanding GCSE Results for Healing Academy

Outstanding GCSE results were celebrated by pupils and staff at Healing School, with the school’s Attainment 8 score rising to an impressive 53.2.

A total of 81.3% achieved the standard pass of grade 4 or better in English and Maths while 57.4% achieved a strong grade 5 pass in both.

Principal Mrs Dewland said: “I’m delighted for the pupils and staff. Both have worked so hard and deserve their wonderful successes. Consistently, we have been a top-performing school in North East Lincolnshire for many years and these set of results add to that proud and remarkable record.”

There were also excellent performances from individual departments, with English achieving 95% standard grade 4 and above and Maths achieving 83%. In terms of the strong pass, 83% of pupils achieved grade 5 and above in English and 62% of pupils achieved a grade 5 and above in Maths.

Pupils in Triple Science did particularly well with 100% of pupils achieving grade 4 and above in all three sciences (Biology, Physics and Chemistry), which is especially significant as over half the cohort study the more demanding Triple Science GCSEs. There were also some strong performances across the school as a whole.

Outstanding results have confirmed Healing School’s status as the best performing school in the north of England, when compared to similar schools. They compare 55 schools where pupils had similar achievement at the end of key stage 2. Healing School is ranked the fifth best, with only three in London and another in Buckinghamshire above it.

Last year’s ‘above average’ Progress 8 figure of 0.41 put Healing in the country’s top 20% for progress, winning an educational outcome award from the Schools, Students and Teachers network (SSAT).

HEALING PRIMARY ACADEMY

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Key Stage 2 Success

We are incredibly proud to have achieved another

fantastic set of results at the end of Key Stage 2.

Our Year 6 cohort last academic year worked

tirelessly to achieve success in Reading, Writing

and Maths, as well as across the foundation

curriculum subjects. 93% of children met or

exceeded age-related expectations in Writing and

Maths, and 84% of our wonderful pupils met or

exceeded expectations in Reading. To celebrate

their success and hard work, all pupils were

awarded with a certificate of achievement for an

area of the curriculum in which they excelled, or

for consistently upholding and promoting one of

our school values, such as respect, kindness,

pride and resilience. Naomi was awarded the

Healing Multi-Academy Trust ‘Trustee Award’ for

Overall Academic Achievement. She worked

tirelessly throughout her time at Healing Primary

School, and deserved every bit of her academic

success. We’re really proud of you all and wish

you lots of luck in Year 7!

Pastoral, Nurturing and Enrichment

As well as our academic successes, we are also

proud of the wide range of support we provide for

the social, emotional and mental health of all of

our pupils.

Recently, we celebrated one of our pupil’s lives by

enabling her to present an assembly to the whole

school to show just what she has had to overcome

in her nine years: beating cancer after years of

suffering from a rare tumour; losing her dad to

cancer; being able to do charity work to support

Cancer Research and Macmillan Nurses; sailing

around Scotland with Dame Ellen McArthur and

other children who have been affected by cancer.

The children were empathetic and inspired

listening to her story, and we are incredibly proud

of our super star.

One of our favourite pastoral activities is

gardening. Last year, we were nominated to

receive a donation from Nisa Local. This kind

donation enabled us to purchase a greenhouse, so

Mr Lewis, Mrs Dolan and a group of green-

fingered children set to work in creating our

garden. They planted up raised beds with a

selection of flowers, edible crops and six apple

trees (which were donated by Orchards for

Schools). We hope to enter some of our produce

in a local show this term, and plan to cook some of

the vegetables for the children to sample.

LINCOLN CASTLE ACADEMY

First in the County to become a UN accredited Climate Change Teacher

Mr Lunt, Head of Geography at Lincoln Castle Academy, undertook a UN accredited course specialising in climate change. The department will now deliver up-to-date climate change lessons to all pupils at the school. Best practice will be shared with all teaching staff, as part of a new innovative programme being trialled in UK schools. The UN Climate Change Teacher Academy is being delivered by Harwood Education, in partnership with the One United Nations Climate Change Learning Partnership and sponsored by YPO. Teachers will earn CPD and certification from the United Nations. The innovative programme was launched on April 22 and is free for all primary and secondary school teachers.

Skip to the Beat

During September a brilliant charity event took place with Year 7 putting in a tremendous effort to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation. The students spent their PE lesson skipping to raise money for this brilliant cause. So far, they have raised over £200, with sponsor money still coming in. Year 7 have made a brilliant start and have achieved 5000 reward points so far. They are making their mark as part of our community.

Aquathon with Lincoln Tri Club

On the 3rd October, in conjunction with Lincoln Tri Club, Years 7 & 8 enjoyed a taster Aquathon. Students completed a 50 metre swim then quickly put their PE kit on over their swimming clothes to experience the reality of completing a triathlon. They then sprinted to the running track to run 800 metres to complete the event. All students put in tremendous effort and we are very proud of their positive attitudes, even though it was a little cold! Lincoln Tri Club intend to set up a satellite club at LCA.

Lincoln Castle Academy Accelerated Reader@LcaReading

As we enter our second year of using @AccReader, we continue to develop our usage. The programme helps teachers to guide students to books that are pitched at their individual reading levels. Students take short quizzes after reading a book to check their understanding and are awarded points, with just under 6 million words and 210 books quizzed in the past 2 weeks. This is an important part of our commitment to a language rich environment. We are delighted with our 'Champion

Launch Meeting of the HMAT Literacy Hub

Held at LCA, hosted by Mia Sneyd, Secondary School Improvement Partner. Further updates next edition.

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ST GILES ACADEMY

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Passion – On Friday 12th July 2019, in collaboration with our Parent and Community Team (PACT), we hosted our annual summer fair. Each year group had an area on the field where they held their own summer fair stalls. An exhibition of the children’s work was displayed inside showing the learning they had completed over the course of the school year and each year group also put on a short performance to entertain us all, with lots of singing and dancing!

There was a popular refreshment stall with BBQ and an ice cream and dessert van, which kept us cool in the hot sunshine! The games, inflatable activities and many other stalls helped to raise an incredible £881.76, which will go towards equipment and exciting activities for the children next year. Many thanks to the PACT for all the hard work they put in to organising events throughout the year.

Aspiration – Our aspiring leaders have started to think about how they can make the school a better place for the children, the adults and for the planet. A representative from each class was elected to be on the school council, which meets every fortnight and leads an assembly on an issue that they have devised. The class rep listens to all the ideas and contributions from their class and shares them with the whole school. Some ideas were very creative, including a hot tub and swimming pool amongst others! We look forward to seeing what the school council would like to put into action.

Resilience – The weather held out for our annual Sports Days and the children enjoyed competing in a variety of events including running, jumping and throwing. All pupils competed within their classes and the events were separated between boys and girls. Pupils received stickers/certificates for their achievements in each event. As always, the children enjoyed participating in these activities and showed real resilience when they found something a bit tricky.

Tolerance – For the second year, our pupils are taking part in the Mini Police scheme. This has been introduced by our local PCSOs and is developed to introduce children to policing issues, learn about staying safe and undertaking some volunteering activity. Each child has volunteered to work with the police and staff to tackle some of the issues on the playground and to learn about some of the issues in the local community. The children have their own uniform and they help the other children to get on at lunchtimes by reporting incidents, sorting out conflicts and finding people to play with. The children say, “I enjoy resolving other people’s problems” Paisley. “I enjoy helping others.” Filip. It is so fantastic to have so many children wanting to be good role models and help

WILLIAM BARCROFT JUNIOR SCHOOL

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Diversity

Broadening Diversity and understanding the many cultures and beliefs in the country we live in is at the core of our curriculum. Here is our recent visit from Zulu Nation.

The Joy of Reading

Ensuring we meet authors and engage with the joy of reading is one of the many ways we look to spark excitement in reading at William Barcroft. Here we are meeting authors Luke Temple and Mary Alice Evans.

Celebrations

We celebrated a very successful year by spending time together and being thankful. We had a magnificent Bird of Prey display at our Attendance Festival and live musicians at our end of term celebration.

WOODLANDS ACADEMY

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Trustees Award 2018 -2019

A huge ‘Well Done’ to Class 4 who were the

worthy winners of the Trustees Award for the class

with the highest overall attendance. It came as no

surprise as they were often the winners of the

weekly prize in school.

Year 5’s Archaeological Dig

Year 5 and 6 are learning about Ancient Egypt this

term and to launch this exciting project they visited

The Collection in Lincoln where they took part in

an archaeological dig. What treasures did they

unearth?

Spaghetti and Marshmallow Bridge

Building - Parent Shared Learning

Afternoon

It was so lovely to see so many parents at our

shared learning afternoon. The children and adults

worked wonderfully in their teams and everyone did

a great job of building their bridges. As the

structures became bigger, it became clear that the

bridges needed to be made stronger, stiffer and

more stable. The children in Year 2 remembered

that triangles and extra layers were a good way to

do this and we saw lots of budding engineers work

out how to achieve this. Well done everyone!

The Police visit

EYFS

The children have

been learning about

people who help us.

Our very friendly

PCSOs visited the

school and allowed the

children to sit in their

car and try on their

uniform. A great time

was had by all.