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6 TOOTH ILL

Junior club needs admin. help School endures two inspections
Toothill's long running junior youth club could close if it cannot find Toothill's Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior School was the
somebody to take on the administration. subject of two separate inspections during November, by govern-
ment education watchdogs Ofsted, and for a report on Denomina-
The club meets at the Toothill play leader, letter writing, making
Farm Centre on Thursdays be- grant applications and ensuring tional Education and Collective Worship.
tween 7pm and 9pm during term fire procedures are followed. The Ofsted inspectors conclude The report points out that too
time to provide activities for seven He/she also acts as club treas- that the strengths of the school much teaching in the lower end of
to eleven year olds. urer, collects and banks the weekly outweigh the weaknesses and the key stage is unsatisfactory and
Run by play leader Mary Poole, takings and maintains the books. commends the high level of attain- pupils with special needs in a class
the club caters for up to thirty chil- There will be ongoing support and ment in national tests of mathemat- set up to support them make un-
dren, depending on the number of backup to help the new person ics and science, and good teaching satisfactory progress.
adults available to help. into the job. at the top end of the key stage. Assessment is not used effec-
Computer games, snooker, The club is greatly enjoyed by Pupil's spiritual, moral, social tively to plan lessons and record
cooking, craft projects and outings many children and would be and cultural development are well keeping does not monitor pupil's
are just a few of the activities on missed if it has to close. provided for, and there are good progress adequately. The school
the programme. For more information, contact links with the community. development plan is not suffi-
The volunteer club adminstrator Elaine Johnson on 612901 or Lisa Homework as a support to learn- ciently coherent to give a clear vi-
is responsible for liaison with the Docketty on 421883. ing is well used and there is good sion for its future. Professional
financial control and administra- development of staff is insuffi-
tion. ciently addressed and supported.
The report states that teaching is
at least satisfactory in 84% of les-
sons, and in 34% of lessons, it was
good or very good. However, in
16% of lessons teaching was said
YOUR LOCAL GARAGE DOOR to be unsatisfactory.
SPECIALISTS Most issues arising from the last
Ofsted inspection have been ad-
UP AND OVER GARAGE DOORS SUPPLIED, ® ® dressed and the report states that
FITTED, REPAIRED (SPARE PARTS AVAILABLE) D D the school is suitably placed to
REMOTE CONTROL FOR INCREASED SECURITY ®® make further improvements.
Governors will now be drawing
SWINDON up an action plan which will set
targets for improvement over the
next two years.
Left: Headteacher Revd. Andrew
Maxwell House • Maxwell Street • Swindon Pagett with children, Aaron Nell, Julia
Greig, Melissa Anderson

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