Search results

Class Pages Resources for parents and pupils. Reception: Robins class Information for parents with a child in our Reception (Robins) class in 2024-5. Curriculum Overview Find out more Year 1: Wagtails Information for parents with a child in our Year 1 (Wagtails) class in 2024-5 Curriculum Overview Find out more Year 2: Skylarks class Information for parents with a child in our Year 2 (Skylarks) class in 2024-5 Curriculum Overview Find out more Year 3: Kingfishers Information for parents with a child in our Year 3 (Kingfishers) class in 2024-5 Curriculum Overview Find out more Year 4/5: Starlings class Information for parents with a child in our Starlings class in 2024-25 Curriculum Overview Find out more Year 5/6: Nightingale class Information for parents with a child in our Year 5/6 class in 2024-25 Curriculum Overview Find out more

Year 3 Kingfishers Class Following the Albourne Way living life to the full Ask Me Abouts Autumn 1 Meet the Teacher September 2024 Kingfishers Curriculum Overview 2-24-5 Welcome to Kingfishers and Year 3. The class teacher in Kingfishers is Miss Johanson. Kingfishers have a locker to keep their belongings in – we ask that children only bring small bags/book bags into school each day so that the lockers are not too full! Children are welcome to bring a snack of fruit, vegetables or cheese for morning playtime and will need to have water bottles in school, as usual. Pictures of staff Our main topic for the Autumn Term is Stone Age to Iron Age. In history, we consider the key question: What are the similarities and differences between the stone, bronze and iron ages. In the Spring term, we move on to focus on to the ancient Egyptians and in the Summer term our topic is UK and the South Downs. More detail is available on the curriculum pages of the school website. One of the exciting things about Year 3 is that we start swimming at Hurst College in the spring and summer terms! Remember to bring in your swimming bags on Wednesdays. We have high expectations of reading, therefore we encourage every child to read at least 5 times weekly, and ask parents or children to record this in their reading diaries. We will check the diaries every Monday and each week a child achieves the 5x a week target, a raffle ticket is put in the box ready for the reading challenge assembly. Tickets are drawn half-termly to see who can choose a ‘Golden Book’. Homework in Year 3 consists of reading (as above), spellings (weekly) and a topic based task that will cover options from across the curriculum, which is due every half term. PE is twice a week on a Wednesday (swimming) and Friday. We are trialling the children coming into school in their PE kit on these days. Copies of our half-termly ‘Ask Me About’ newsletter and our latest homework grid can be found below. Ask Me About May 2024 Ask Me About May 2024 Ask Me About March 2024 Ask Me About February 2024 Ask Me About

Year 5/6 Nightingale Class Following the Albourne Way living life to the full Ask Me Abouts Autumn 1 Nightingales Curriculum Overview 2-24-5 Meet the Teacher Sep 2024 Welcome to Nightingales. 'Ask Me Abouts' will be added here half-termly to keep you informed about what we have been doing and what we intend to do in Nightingales class. Welcome to Nightingales (Years 5 and 6). The teacher in Nightingales is Mr. Hamilton. The class also has the support of Mrs. Henson in the mornings and as cover for Mr. Hamilton on Friday afternoons. Nightingales have a newly built classroom separate from the school’s main building with its own lockers, toilet block and a smaller group-work room. The Autumn term will introduce the children to the geography topic of Mountains and Volcanoes. They will find out how volcanoes affect the lives of those living in Iceland, and making local comparisons with people living in mountainous areas of Wales. In English, the children will follow the Albourne Writers Way to create some wonderful descriptive writing inspired by ‘The Wolves of Currumpaw’,’The man who walked between the Twin Towers’ and ‘Survivors’. We expect all children to be reading daily at home and in school when the opportunity arises. Home reading should be recorded in their reading diary, which we check weekly- those who have been reading daily will have a raffle ticket entered into the half-termly reading challenge, with the opportunity to win a book. In maths, we will be recapping the children’s knowledge of place value, the four operations and fractions. This will be carried out through a range of question types to help develop a deeper understanding of mathematical skills. We will also do a weekly times table challenge to help speed up their recall. In computing the children will be learning more about the importance of safety and how we can use spreadsheets to help with calculations and displaying of data. Design technology will be a themed day run by the STEM Ambassadors, who have quite a challenge for the children. Religion, will allow the children to find out about the Hajj through a study of Islam and to study the question, ‘Was Jesus the messiah?’ To keep fit and healthy, we will have two PE lessons per week- our first session will focus on developing tag rugby skills and the second will split, with year 6 going swimming and year 5 doing dance. In science we will explore living things and their environments. We will be having a trip to London to the Natural history Museum as part of geography topic work. We set homework on Google Classroom based on reading, grammar, punctuation and spelling, and maths (related to our classwork). Thanks, as ever, to all the parents and carers for their help and support. Please feel free to contact us. Downloads For all letters, information and forms for parents, please follow the link to our Downloads page. Downloads page

Contact us We welcome enquiries from all parents/carers, whether your child is already at Albourne or whether you are considering applying to our school. You can contact us on the details below. Explore Contact details Our School Office staff are happy to answer your questions or take messages for other staff. Printed copies of policies/ information from this website are available for parents/carers on request and free of charge. Telephone 01273 832003 Email office@albournecep.co.uk Postal address The Street Albourne Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9DH In person All visitors must report to the School Office. If you have a question about something in class, a message can be passed onto the class teacher, or an appointment made at the end of a school day. Please note the start of the school day is a busy time for teachers whilst they welcome children into the classroom. Key members of staff Headteacher - Ms F Keeling Secretary - Mrs Rebecca Sweet Operations Manager - Mr P Wilkes SENCo - Ms Nargis Miah Governors The Chair of Governors - Janneke Blokland - can be contacted via the Clerk to Governors by email at clerk@albournecep.co.uk Hurst Education Trust Albourne Church of England Primary School is part of the Hurst Education Trust. Details of the Trust can be found at www.hurst.education and key documents, including the Trust's annual report and accounts, can be accessed at www.hurst.education/documents The Hurst Education Trust is a Company Limited by Guarantee in England and Wales Registered No. 13807225 The Trust's contact details are: Hurst Education Trust c/o Hurstpierpoint College College Lane Hurstpierpoint West Sussex BN6 9JS 01273 836914

Downloads for Parents Documents and forms for parents. Below are documents and forms available to all parents. Essential information and forms Documents and forms for our Extra-Currciular clubs and activities. Absence request form Uniform information British Values information leaflet for parents Extra-Curricular information Documents and forms for our Extra-Currciular clubs and activities. Breakfast Club information Breakfast Club dietary requirements form (Word doc) Breakfast Club booking form - SEP 2023 (Excel doc) Breakfast Club booking form - OCT 2023 (Excel doc) Breakfast Club booking form - NOV 2023 (Excel doc) Breakfast Club booking form - DEC 2023 (Excel doc) Breakfast Club booking form - JAN 2024 (Excel doc) After School Care information Music Lessons information West Sussex Music Parent newsletters and letters home Download newsletters and letters from this term. Latest Newsletter September 2024 Funding and financial information Documents about our funding and finances. Please note, as of September 2020, all schools are required to publish how many people in their organisation earn over £100,000 and publish a link to the Government financial benchmarking service page about our school. Albourne CofE Primary has zero people in our organisation earning £100,000 or above. The Government benchmarking page for our school can be found at the link below. Goverment Benchmarking page Sports Premium report 2023-24 External suppliers Links to the companies we work with. Coolmilk Chartwells (hot school meals service) Albion FC in the Community