The Kimberley School Newsletter October 2016 | Page 9

Primary Matters This has been a busy half-term for us on the primary front as we have welcomed pupils, parents and carers from Years 5 and 6 to a number of events focused on transition. We have hosted hundreds of families as they attended our open evening or toured the school on our official open days in September. Since then, we have had numerous additional families touring the school in October as they make their final choice of secondary school for September 2017. Choosing the best school for your child is difficult but it is often made harder by some schools which only allow prospective families to tour their school on official open days. At The Kimberley School, we want to ensure that you and your child have the opportunity to see our school on a normal working day, rather than a staged event, and that is why we are always happy to accommodate tours. If you would like to come and see our school, you are welcome to do so at any time. Please contact us and we will arrange a date with you. You will be escorted around the school by some of our students, who will be happy to answer your questions, and the tour will finish with the opportunity to ask any further questions you have with either Miss Hughes, Assistant Headteacher (Primary Liaison and Transition) or Mr Watson (Transition Coordinator). For those of you who have children in Year 6 and who want to apply to The Kimberley School, you have until the end of October to complete the forms which your local authority will have sent you. We guarantee a place for all children in our feeder schools, regardless of where they live, and will do everything we can to meet demand from out of catchment schools. It is important that you put our school down as first choice, however, as once the first choice places have been allocated you may find that we have no further places to offer, if you have put another school as first choice and not been successful. If you are not initially successful in your application to The Kimberley School, we would advise you to appeal immediately. If you are a Year 5 parent who is considering The Kimberley School as your choice of secondary school for 2018, please feel free to contact us if you would like any information about our school or the application and transition process. You are most welcome to visit us at any time of the year. We are currently working on a project in partnership with our primary colleagues on promoting British Values. Each of the schools has taken one of the British Values and is creating a display on what that value means to our school. We have ‘Mutual Respect’ and we are working with our students on identifying what mutual respect looks like in our school. Our display will include articles and images that demonstrate how our students show respect to each ot