Dear Parents & Carers
Through working together and with a broad range of partners, our aim is to help YOU access a wide range of services, activities, clubs and amenities which can support you in your role as you help your children do their best at school.
Our Mission: Achieving More Together
This site has lots of information about what is available and how to find it. Much support and information is available through our 16 schools and 3 children's centres (whose individual websites can be accessed via the links to the right); we seek to provide more information and support across 5 key areas:
~ Clubs and Activities: for children 0 to teens. There is information too about adult activities.
~ Childcare: quality childcare provision and support for 0-11s
~ Support for Parents: more support for you about your child's learning and well being
~ Easier Referral to Specialist Services: links to specialist services that you or your child might need
~ Community Services: links to community facilities and services
Andrew Smith
Chair, Godalming Confederation of Schools
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* Please note: some schools have adopted slightly different term dates to those shown and it is therefore advisable to contact your individual school/s to confirm their dates.
News & Events |
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Celebration to mark the reopening of The Wharf Nursery School and Children's Centre The Wharf Nursery School and Children's Centre is now fully opened, following a visit from Surrey dignitaries at the end of September. Two mayors, the vice chairman of Surrey County Council and two former headteachers joined an official opening ceremony. Headteacher Mandy Heslop said that the celebration was a lively affair, with lots of old faces turning up to mark the occasion. Previous heads Jennie Waterfall and Mary Terret returned to the school to see the improvements, which were funded by a £2million Sure Start grant. The entire project took a year to complete, during which time the nursery and its outreach centre based themselves on the site of Green Oak school in Franklyn Road, Godalming. Staff and volunteers began moving classrooms back into the town centre site on Woolsack Way back in May. The Head tells us that "Parents and students all really love the new centre, and I've had a lot of lovely comments about it, with people telling me they knew it would be good but they never thought it would be this good...the facilities are so much better (than the old building) and it's quite exciting!" The Wharf Nursery and Children's Centre will continue to exist as a two building centre. The Woolsack Way building in the centre of town will house the nursery school and will be offering an expanding range of children's centre activities as well. The Wharf Children's Centre at The Eashing Building, behind Green Oak School, will continue to offer children's centre activities. The two sites will be working together to ensure that they offer a wide range of activities and services. |
Headteacher News We offer a very warm welcome to Mrs Jo Fraser, new Headteacher at Witley C of E Infant School. A warm welcome back too to Mrs Carolyn Holmes, Headteacher at Busbridge C of E Junior School and to Mrs Andrea Simonsson, Headteacher at Farncombe Infant & Nursery School. |
Another year of Outstanding Results for our Year 11s at Broadwater and Rodborough Congratulations to Year 11! GCSE results at Broadwater were again outstanding, with 81% A*-C passes and 57% with English and Maths. Rodborough's Year 11 results were it's best ever, with 84% of pupils achieving 5 A*-C grades and 78% with Maths & English. Rodborough are also delighted that there is a small increase in the number of pupils gaining the English Baccalaureate (44%), which is a new Government measure introduced last year. |
Children’s Centre provision at Loseley Fields, The Wharf and St James, Elstead
Loseley Fields Children’s Centre offers childcare 8am-6pm, Mon-Fri, 50 weeks of the year plus a programme of services offering help & advice to families with young children in Binscombe, Farncombe, Shalford & Godalming, including Play & Learn sessions, one year health checks, ante-natal and post-natal groups, well baby clinics, baby massage classes, positive parenting courses, with an Outreach/home link worker who can visit parents with advice on the care & education of your child. Child nutrition courses, a support network for child minders, a toy library, behaviour management courses from 2s to teens, links to Jobcentre Plus & Next Steps & bringing together local health visitors, paediatric specialists, speech & language development officers, school & CAHMS nurses & local community & voluntary groups. The aim is to offer a service that can equip families to ensure their children are receiving the best of local health & childcare services. Call the Centre on 01483 419325 or visit www.loseleyfieldscc.com The Wharf Children’s Centre offers childcare 8am-6pm for children on roll and will offer holiday activities. Services include Play and Learn sessions for 0-5s, Twins & Multiples Sessions for 0-5s. The Wharf Nursery & Children’s Centre also offer an outreach service for families with children with special needs, a speech & language therapist, Parenting Puzzle courses, toy library. Call The Wharf on 01483 415220. Elstead & Villages Children’s Centre (based at St James Primary School, Elstead) Open Monday and Wednesday 9am-1pm. For information & advice drop in between 9.30-11.30am on Mondays and Wednesdays. The Centre offers Stay & Play sessions for 0-5s, Storytelling, Baby Massage, Healthy Eating sessions, Gym Club for 1-6s, Help at hand advice sessions, New Mums group. Not all the sessions are based at the centre. Call the team on 01252 706915. |
Parenting Puzzle Parent Support Groups
The Parenting Puzzle, a 10 week course for parents & carers, has been running very successfully. We will be running more courses in the future. For more information or if you think you might be interested, have a word with your Home School Link Worker (HSLW) - you can contact them through your school office - or keep an eye on the Confederation website for details. |
Confederation Language Group 2011 was championed as the Year of Communication. Within Surrey schools we recognise the importance of puils' speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and we have set up a Language Group in the Godalming Confederation, co-ordinated by Mandy Hill, from Surrey's Learning and Language Support team. Hosted by Milford Infants School, this is a support group, where teachers, Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCOs) and teaching assistants (TAs) can meet to discuss language related issues, share good practice, look at resources and exchange ideas. |
How we are meeting the Government’s Extended Services Core offer? A brief update Childcare and/or A Safe Place To Be: Two of the three Children’s Centres and some schools offer childcare facilities on their premises; other childcare facilities are available locally (there is a list on the Confederation website). The two secondary schools offer a wide range of after school sport and other activities. Take a look at their websites. A varied menu of Activities: All schools have widened the range of clubs and activities available before, within and after school. In some, pupils have set up and now run their own clubs. Music, sports, arts & crafts, dance, drama, language and volunteering are the main examples of activities taking place. Parenting Support is provided mainly by the HSLWs and Children's Centre Outreach Workers in a huge range of examples and circumstances. HSLWs see pupils, parents and carers at school, make individual home visits , run groups and courses and work with the County’s other services and with the voluntary sector as needed. The Children’s Centre Outreach workers work similarly with families of the under-5s, backed up by more in-depth provision at their centre. Swift & Easy Access/referral to a wide range of specialist services has been helped by the HSLWs, who work closely with the PCT, CAMHS, Social Services, behaviour support services, speech & language services and others to help provide what some children and young people [desperately] need. The Children’s Centre Outreach Workers work similarly with families of the under 5s, again backed up by provision at their Centre. Wider Community Access is being provided by schools and Children’s Centres where they can e.g. opportunities for using computers with associated ICT training & support, using grounds & facilities, particularly for sport & recreation and opening up other adult education opportunities such as maths and literacy. |
These workshops run every Wednesday during the school terms, from 3.30pm to 5.30pm. They are OPEN TO EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY, not just those with children at the school. So if you would like to learn a little more about how to use a computer, just call Tim Johnson on the number above and go along for a session. |
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