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• Provisional Deployment

  Tue 23 May 2023 Dr James Inglis

  I am now in a position to share with you how teachers will be deployed next year.

   

  Miss Barker, Miss Bone and Miss Kirk will continue in their present roles.

   

  Mrs Burton is returning part-time, and she will teach Apples & Pears alongside Mrs Cole, a highly experienced practitioner. Mrs Cole covered Willow late last summer following Mrs Cullingford's retirement, and I am delighted she wants to join us permanently. Having shared a class with her myself when I served in senior leadership at my previous school, I know Mrs Cole will be a tremendous asset to Northaw. She will work full-time in Apples & Pears until Mrs Burton's maternity leave comes to an end in October.

   

  Miss Kennett has found a full-time role at another school; I know how much she will be missed by many families, and we wish her every success in the future.

• Changing Me

  Mon 22 May 2023 Dr James Inglis

  After half term, pupils complete the final unit this year, Changing Me, in PSHE (personal, social, health and economic education), which is normally taught using Jigsaw, a carefully selected programme adopting a mindful approach to supporting children and young people in developing emotional literacy; social and lifelong skills, and resilience in an age-appropriate manner. Changing Me also covers elements of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE).

   

  While relationships and health education, including puberty, are statutory, sex education is not compulsory in primary schools. It was decided before my time as headteacher, and in consultation with parents and carers, children in KS2 should understand the facts about human reproduction before they leave us; however, I have a duty to restate you have the right to withdraw your child from the single lessons when this aspect is explored in Willow and Oak. (Further information can be found in our PSHE Policy, available online; naturally, you are also welcome to speak with your child's teacher about specific lesson content.) Should you wish to exercise this right, please contact me, and your child's teacher will sensitively make arrangements for supervising them in a different activity separate from the rest of their class when sex education is covered.