MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL IN MIDDLETON CHENEY PRIMARY ACADEMY

FROM MIDDLETON CHENEY PRIMARY ACADEMY NEWSLETTER

MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL At this year’s Festival we had visitors from a school in Poland. They were very honoured to have crowned our King and Queen and were very impressed by the children’s dancing. They thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon, we hope you did too. We were also joined by some children from Chipping Warden Primary Academy who are part of our Multi Academy Trust who performed a traditional polish dance with our visitors. We would like to thank all the teachers, teaching assistants and most of all the children for working so hard to perfect their moves. A big thank you to our Parents’ Association and to all those who donated cakes and flowers and spared their time to help set up.

JOB SHADOWING EXPERIENCE by Barbara Kijanka

Visiting the three Primary Academies in  England was an unusual experience. We had so many opportunities to watch teachers’  and pupils’ work and gather ideas which, I believe, can be transferred to our school.

Each school, Middleton Cheney Primary Academy, Chipping Warden Primary Academy and King`s Sutton Primary Academy, is an institution with history and message. The teachers focus not only on equipping young minds with knowledge but especially with rules and values which will help their pupils become good people, i.e. friendship, self-belief, motivation, creativity, communication, just to mention a few. As visitors we could observe the effects of this attitude by looking for example at unusual art projects and teachers’ attitude towards their students which was full of understanding and friendliness.

The week passed very quickly but we had also many opportunities to experience different aspects of British culture, be it visiting Oxford, British Motor Museum  (with unusual cars), Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare birthplace), “meeting” with Tolkien and many others.

The things which we are definitely going to make use of are some teaching ideas that English teachers use during their classes to make them interesting and flowing.

Barbara Kijanka

TEACHING ABOUT POLAND

When jobshadowing we try to present our country to our hosts. 

   talking about Polish food and preparing pierogi and barszcz for our hosts.

                                    presenting legend of Cracow`s Dragon.

                              telling about our home town Przemyśl

                and teaching Polish national dances of Krakowiak and Polonez

Little souvenirs from Poland 

JOB SHADOWING IN CHIPPING WARDEN PRIMARY ACADEMY

TEACHING AND DANCING POLISH NATIONAL DANCE POLONEZ 

Teaching and dancing our national dance Polonez.

GREAT IDEA FOR TEACHING ENGLISH CULTURE 

Great project work for Queens Jubilee

                                          NICE TWO DAYS WITH PUPILS AND TEACHERS ON SCHOOL                                                                    TRIP TO BRITISH MOTOR MUSEUM IN GAYDON

School trip to Gaydon Motor Museum

JOB SHADOWING IN SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE VILLAGE SCHOOLS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Od 25 do 30 czerwca panie Małgorzata Banicka, Barbara Kijanka i Małgorzata Łupicka odbywały "job shadowing " w trzech angielskich szkołach podstawowych, które tworzą Akademię.Były to Middleton Cheney Primary Academy, Chipping Warden Primary Academy i King`s Sutton Primary Academy. Podczas wizyty w trzech placówkach panie obserwowały pracę angielskich nauczycieli, szukały pomysłów, nowych metod i inspiracji. Poznawały inny niż w Polsce system edukacji, sposoby radzenia sobie z problemami, a także prezentowały uczniom, nauczycielom i rodzicom polską kulturę i legendy. Wszędzie były ciepło i serdecznie przyjmowane.

LINKI DO STRON SZKOLNYCH:

MIDDLETON CHENEY PRIMARY ACADEMY

CHIPPING WARDEN PRIMARY ACADEMY

w latach 1941-1946 znajdował się w tym budynku szpital RAFu

KING`S SUTTON PRIMARY ACADEMY

późno wiktoriański budynek szkoły 1908 r.

AKADEMIE 

Po 2010 roku wiele szkół podstawowych zostało przekształconych w Akademie; rząd ustanowił wówczas, że wszystkie nowo otwierane szkoły będą akademiami. Akademie mają swojego sponsora, np. biznesowego czy religijnego lub grupę wolontariuszy, którzy pokrywają część kosztów. Pozostałe koszty i wydatki bieżące są świadczone bezpośrednio przez rząd. Akademie są niezależne od władz lokalnych, a sponsor wybiera większość członków zarządu szkoły. Akademie mają oferować swoim uczniom szeroki i zbalansowany program nauczania. Szkoły licencyjne (free schools) mogą ustanawiać własną skalę płac i warunki dla pracowników oraz ustanowić inne długości semestrów szkolnych i dnia szkolnego niż te powszechnie obowiązujące. Placówki tego typu są kontrolowane bezpośrednio przez Departament ds. Oświaty.

  PRIMARY SCHOOL

Reception Age: 4-5
Year 1 Age: 5-6
Year 2 Age: 6-7
Year 3 Age: 7-8
Year 4 Age: 8-9
Year 5 Age: 9-10
Year 6 Age: 10-11

  ACADEMIES

Since 2010, many primary schools have been turned into Academies and the government has ruled that all newly opening schools must be academies. Academies have a sponsor from business, faith or voluntary groups who contributes part of the costs but the remainder, and the running costs, are provided directly by the government. Academy Schools are independent of the local authority and the sponsor appoints the majority of the governing body. All are expected to follow a broad and balanced curriculum. Free schools can set their own pay and conditions for staff, change the length of school terms and the school day. They are monitored directly by the Department for Education.