Welcome
....to The Godalming Confederation of Schools
We are 16 schools and a Children's Centre working together and in partnership with the community and other partners to enable better access to, or deliver a wide range of services, activities, clubs and amenities to children and their families, to help ensure that all our children can enjoy, feel safe and do their best at school.
Set up to raise standards by delivering the Government’s new Extended Services Core Offer, this means supporting children, parents and carers so that they benefit from improved opportunities, information and specialist support where needed. It also means that staff can benefit from the collaboration, including through more training and development opportunities. In short, everyone benefits by getting more value by working as part of a group, rather than individually.
Achieving More Together – aiming to enable a more ‘joined-up' approach to child and family issues in and around Godalming.
The Extended Services Core Offer can be viewed in more detail by clicking here.
Director, Godalming Confederation of Schools
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St Marks out of Special Measures: Moves forward with a new name "Green Oak Church of England Primary School and Nursery" from September Many congratulations to Interim Heads, Deborah Eaton and Laura Christie, and to everyone at St Marks as the school is formally declared out of special measures, with notice to improve, by Ofsted. This is good news for pupils and families alike as the school moves forward into the coming academic year and changes its name to “Green Oak Church of England Primary School and Nursery.” (Click here to view this recent Ofsted report.) In the new structure, Hilary Loder will be the new Executive Head of Moss Lane and Green Oak schools. The new Head of Teaching & Learning and Acting Deputy Head of Moss Lane School is Anne Gibson; and the new head of Teaching & Learning at Green Oak School is Jacky Underwood.
Hilary Loder said “We thank Deborah and Laura for all their hard work and wish them well for the future. Jacky and I are looking forward to a really productive year as we move forward into the new school term in our newly named school.” 9.7.08 |
As Headteacher Mrs Eileen Griffiths retires, we welcome new headteacher Kay Leggett to Milford School At the end of this term we say goodbye to Eileen Griffiths, after 26 years at Milford School (!) and wish her well in her retirement. We warmly welcome Kay Leggett,who has been appointed as the new Headteacher at Milford Infants. Kay is currently working in West Sussex, and is looking forward to working within the Godalming Confederation of Schools. She will take up her appointment in September 2008. 19.06.08 |
Wastebuster Workshops at St Edmunds Primary School
The last week of half term saw great excitement in St Edmunds School when a crew came from Wastebuster, as part of our Eco-Schools work. James Strawbridge, from the BBC (BBC2’s ‘Its Not Easy Being Green’), was also in school all day. Wastebuster have decided to help bring environmental education into the classrooms by combining their awareness-raising programme with an option for exciting makeover workshops and St Edmunds were invited to take part! Year 6 spent the morning being filmed regarding eco issues, and workshops were held for Years 4, 5 and 6 on composting and land-fill issues but also sustainability. Not only did the children learn a great deal, but the curriculum was brought alive and made purposeful for the children. The whole day will be on the Wastebuster website and St Edmund’s will feature at the National Eco-Schools conference. Congratulations are also due to our Eco school committee, as we have now achieved Eco-Schools Silver Award and will be working towards a Green Flag next year. 29.05.08 |
Mr Tim Burgess appointed new Headteacher at The Chandler C of E Junior School We congratulate Mr Tim Burgess who has recently been appointed the new permanent Headteacher at The Chandler C of E Junior School. Tim was appointed Interim Head for the summer term, following the departure of Mrs Sue Sayers. Tim has worked in the local area for many years and was previously Deputyhead at Holy Trinity. Tim kindly agreed to be interviewed by Sophie Rafter and Megan Hurley, two Y6 Chandler children. Their interview with him can be found on The Chandler's school website. Click here to link to the site. 29.05.08 |
New Executive Headteacher confirmed for St Mark's C of E School We congratulate Mrs Hilary Loder who will be the new Executive Headteacher at St Mark’s School in September. Mrs Loder is Headteacher at Moss Lane School and will now take over the Headship of both schools, as part of the future plans for St Mark's. She commented that these arrangements provide exciting opportunities for both St Mark's and Moss Lane. Hilary plans to work at St Mark's two days a week and the remaining three days a week at Moss Lane. The schools will remain separate in every way and both will retain their unique identities. Both schools will have a strong leadership structure that ensures their smooth running. From September also, all St Mark's KS2 children will be based at Loseley Fields Primary School, where new buildings and facilities and transportation between both sites is being provided. Mr Chris Nourse, Headteacher at Loseley Fields and Chair of the Godalming Confederation of Schools, similarly talked about the exciting new opportunities that this move brings to all the children, families and staff at Loseley Fields and St Mark's. Both Headteachers have emphasized the importance of working together and welcome any additional help that the Confederation can bring. 23.04.08 |
Loseley Fields Children's Centre Opened Officially in April Loseley Fields Children's Centre opened officially in April and now offers a range of facilities ranging from childcare, access to health visitors, youth clubs and advisory services, to a range of facilities for use or hire by the community. Look out for information about music sessions for 13-17 year olds in May. For more information click on the Centre's name in the orange box at the right of this page to link to their website, or contact the Centre Manager, Jim Carson, on 01483 419325. 23.04.08 |
Extended Services Questionnaire: Thank You - We really value your opinions! Thank you to all of you who completed and returned your questionnaire. We had some 832 responses, covering 1417 pupils, about one third of our total. We are now analyzing them in detail. We know that more consultation is to be done, so watch this space! Click here to see a copy of the questionnaire 23.04.08 |
Our Extended Services launch - 14th January 2008 Baroness Estelle Morris, formerly Secretary of State for Education & Skills, came to Loseley Fields Primary School and Children’s Centre, Godalming on 14th January to speak to over 100 delegates from our schools, local communities, voluntary organisations and children’s services, to help launch our Extended Services work. She talked about the benefits of collaboration and how dealing with problems outside the classroom can directly help children achieve better at school. She particularly highlighted the importance of working with children before the age of 2, showing the vast difference that early intervention at this age can make to their progress in later years, describing how parents are so vital in this work
Lady Morris talked vividly about why it is so necessary for everyone working in schools to work together with local people, parents and organisations to provide the best opportunities for all our children so that tragic cases such as that of Victoria Climbier can never happen again because schools, local people and services weren’t communicating properly.
The morning was particularly important because it provided the first opportunity for all the different groups of people mentioned above to get together and begin to discuss how they could support the Confederation in the future. Many new contacts were made and offers of help given. We are still following up several of these offers. People left at lunchtime with a greater understanding of what the Confederation is all about and their roles within it and people were very positive about their future involvement. 23.04.08 |
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Do you like our logo?
We do! We had a competition amongst our children and young people and this, our winning entry, was designed by Sophie Crust, a Year 5 pupil at St Edmunds RC Primary School. Well done Sophie! 23.04.08 |
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