Save the air - walk there!

We want all our children, parents and staff to be able to breath clean air, live healthy, long and fulfilling lives and for Haringey to be a clean and safe borough. Our aim is for every child and young person to walk, cycle and use the bus to get to school. Because of this we have launched a walking zone map which you will be able to see around the school. Click on the image below to enlarge it.

Teaching positions available from September

We wish to appoint three full-time class teachers from September 2016 to teach in the first instance in Key Stage 2.

As a result of staff promotions and staff pursuing travel opportunities we are in the position to appoint 3 main scale class teachers. We are looking for teachers who are hard-working, flexible, committed to high standards of achievement and who would make a contribution to the wider life of the school. 

Please download the following documents for more information and details of how to apply:

Job Advert

Job Description

Information for Candidates

Application form

Employment opportunities at Earlsmead

We have three exciting and important positions available in our school from 1st September 2016. 

For information on the posts and details on how to apply, please download the relevant documents below.

School Business Manager      -     Job advert      Person Specification

Administrative Officer (8.15am - 4.15pm)      -   Job advert      Job description

Administrative Officer Advert (8.45am - 4.45pm)      -    Job advert      Job description

Haringey job application form

Visits to the school are very welcome and can be arranged by contacting Ms Adell Horbury on 020 88087915 before the closing date.

Energy Garden art competition

An Energy Garden is an area on a London Overground Station which is made brighter and greener by growing plants to help clean the air we breathe and using sunshine to make electricity to power lights and watering systems.

Energy Gardens will start popping up all over London’s Overground network during the coming months and to celebrate we have been invited to take part in an art competition. 

The winning school will receive £100 and there will be individual prizes awarded to top pupils! Chosen artworks will also be displayed at Energy Gardens across London. The competition closes on Friday 17th June 2016 and the winners will be announced shortly after.

Download and print the entry form here

Year 6 Celebratory Chicken Town Lunch

SATs have finished!

Well done to all the children in Year 6 for getting through a very long, and at times stressful week of testing. All of our children have worked so hard this academic year in order to prepare and be ready for their SATs tests. This year has been particularly difficult with many changes to testing and assessments in our schools.

As an acknowledgement of all their hard work and efforts we took them to have lunch at the Chicken Town restaurant.

The food was delicious and all the Chicken Town staff made sure that our whole dining experience was FANTASTIC!

Chicken Town Partnership

We are delighted to announce the start of our partnership with the restaurant Chicken Town which is situated in the Old Fire Station on Town Hall Approach. For more information about Chicken Town please visit their website at chicken-town.co.uk.

We are very lucky in that they are going to work with our school on various projects that promote healthy eating. One of their projects is to grow food at our school which the children can then cook and eat.

With the help of some of our School Council and Eco Monitors we started to clear the planting areas ready to grow fruit, herbs and vegetables. Well done to all those children who helped Dunya, Chicken Town’s Community Director and Simon, their gardening expert to kick start our growing project. It was particularly great to have more willing helpers at the end of the school day. Lots of our younger children were keen to join in and help.

Year 6 SATs Testing Information 2016

In the next couple of weeks, children in Year 2 and Year 6 will be the first to take the new SATs papers. These tests in English and maths will reflect the new national curriculum, and are intended to be more rigorous. There will also be a completely new marking scheme to replace the existing national curriculum levels.

At the end of Year 6, children will sit tests in:

  • Reading
  • Maths
  • Spelling, punctuation and grammar

These tests will be both set and marked externally, and the results will be used to measure the school’s performance (for example, through reporting to Ofsted and published league tables). Your child’s marks will be used in conjunction with teacher assessment to give a broader picture of their attainment.

Key Stage 2 Reading

The reading test will be a single paper with questions based on three passages of text. Your child will have one hour, including reading time, to complete the test.

There will be a selection of question types, including:

  • Ranking/ordering, e.g. ‘Number the events below to show the order in which they happen in the story’
  • Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title of the story’
  • Find and copy, e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that suggests what the weather is like in the story’
  • Short constructed response, e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’
  • Open-ended response, e.g. ‘Look at the sentence that begins Once upon a time. How does the writer increase the tension throughout this paragraph? Explain fully, referring to the text in your answer.

Key Stage 2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Test

The grammar, punctuation and spelling test will consist of two parts: a grammar and punctuation paper requiring short answers, lasting 45 minutes, and an aural spelling test of 20 words, lasting around 15 minutes.

The grammar and punctuation test will include two sub-types of questions:

  • Selected response, e.g. ‘Identify the adjectives in the sentence below’
  • Constructed response, e.g. ‘Correct/complete/rewrite the sentence below,’ or, ‘The sentence below has an apostrophe missing. Explain why it needs an apostrophe.’

Key Stage 2 Maths

Children will sit three papers in maths:

  • Paper 1: arithmetic, 30 minutes
  • Papers 2 and 3: reasoning, 40 minutes per paper

Paper 1 will consist of fixed response questions, where children have to give the correct answer to calculations, including long multiplication and division. Papers 2 and 3 will involve a number of question types, including:

  • Multiple choice
  • True or false
  • Constrained questions, e.g. giving the answer to a calculation, drawing a shape or completing a table or chart
  • Less constrained questions, where children will have to explain their approach for solving a problem

Key Stage 2 Science

Not all children in Year 6 will take science SATs. Our children will not, we haven’t been chosen as a sample school. However, a number of schools will be required to take part in science sampling: a test administered to a selected sample of children thought to be representative of the population as a whole. For those who are selected, there will be three papers. At Earlsmead we will continue to collect evidence from taught science sessions and results from science knowledge tests, in order to make our final assessments.

How will Key Stage 2 SATs be marked?

The previous national curriculum levels have been scrapped, and instead children will be given scaled scores. You will be given your child’s raw score (the actual number of marks they get), alongside their scaled score and whether they have reached the national average. The score needed to reach the national average has yet to be announced. Results and scores should be available to pupils sometime at the beginning of July, no dates have been confirmed yet.