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Welcome to the website for the Best Start Federation.

The aim of the site is to provide information to all relevant parties about the work of the federation.

We look forward to many years of successful partnership working and fulfilling our core aim: the best possible start for every child.

Work for us!

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Click here for videos from phase 1 of the peer observation project

UPDATES

August 2010

Documents for academic year 2010/2011 - in no particular order

(1) Career structure for teachers

(2) Literacy curriculum map Autumn 2010

We are planning the black history unit - ie the first unit - for teachers in Y3-5. Please check back soon for further details.

(3) Maths planning for Autumn 2010 is on the VLE.

(4) Leadership and management development scheme

Requires password - this is the same password as the one used for online forms

(5) 2010 Literacy planning - example 1 - Wilma Rudolph

2010 Literacy planning - example 2 - A Bus of Our Own

(6) Literacy planning and resources for first books of year on VLE for Y3 and Y4 [The Bus Ride, A Bus of Our Own, Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph]

(7) Revised literacy planning guidance for post RWI

literacy groups Requires password - this is the same

password as the one used for online forms

(8) Template for AR science vocabulary quizzes

(9) Teaching handwriting



6 July 2010

Video clips exemplifying our expectations re: teaching

strategies and routines

7 June 2010

Teaching assistants required

10 May 2010

Assistant Headteacher required

29 March 2010

Woodberry Down becomes England’s first primary

Accredited Schools Group

17 March 2010

Fair Trade Fortnight 2010: The winners

5 March 2010

Class teachers required for September 2010

Teaching assistants required - Woodberry Down

23 February 2010

Prime Minister (Gordon Brown) and Education Secretary (Ed Balls) visit Woodberry Down. They were joined on stage by Dame Julia Cleverdon, Chair of Teach First.

22 February 2010

Mandeville’s Ofsted report is published

19 February 2010

Schools visited by Ofsted

18 February 2010

Fair Trade Fortnight 2010

7 February 2010

Roselyn Codadeen is a finalist in The Learning Trust Educator Awards 2010

25 January 2010

Safeguarding Policy

23 January 2010

Draft Single Equality Scheme

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Information about Woodberry Park

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OUR CORE VALUES
Every child achieves his/her potential
High quality teaching and learning
Children make good or better progress in literacy, numeracy and ICT through consistently good teaching
First-rate systems for identifying and celebrating progress
Outstanding day-to-day assessment
High quality training
An exciting, relevant and inspiring curriculum
Excellent support for the needs of each child
Vibrant classrooms
Staff that are passionate about the children’s success
Every parent/carer feels proud of their child’s achievements
Partnership working, building the capacity to achieve more than any of the schools could as a single institution
London Fields
Mandeville
Woodberry Down

The best start for every child

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