MANDEVILLE

Oswald Street
London E5 0BT

Tel: 020 8986 5249
Fax: 020 8985 9505

The best start for every child

February 2010

Mandeville’s Ofsted report is published

We were all delighted to receive the final report for Mandeville’s recent Ofsted inspection. Staff from Woodberry Down and London Fields have been working alongside staff at Mandeville since January 2009 and Mr Wallace has been Executive Principal of all three schools since June 2009.

The report was very positive, reflecting the huge improvements that have taken place at the school:

Mandeville Primary is a good school. It is improving rapidly and starting to exhibit some outstanding features.

Inspiring leadership throughout the school… Consistency of approach, high expectations and challenging targets for staff and pupils are the key, along with a concerted and relentless drive to secure more effective teaching and learning…

Parents and carers are delighted with the improvements that they see taking place on almost a daily basis. Progress is accelerating throughout the school and starting to eliminate a legacy of underachievement from the past. This is because teachers are transforming the pupils from passive learners with low expectations of what they can achieve, as seen in some poor quality work in their old books, into active learners with higher aspirations. There are two key reasons for this. First, the dialogue established by teachers through highly effective marking emphasises their high expectations and ensures that pupils can reflect on how to improve their work. Second, pupils become engaged in learning as they discuss questions posed with their ‘talk partner’…

The emphasis on improving basic skills, particularly in reading, is having a dramatic effect for all pupils, not just by improving reading but also their enjoyment of books. This is also helping, in particular, to engage boys more in their writing by directly linking tasks to the books they are reading…

The pupils’ excellent behaviour supports their learning and improves considerably during their time at the school. Marking is of a very high standard throughout the school and helps the pupils to understand how well they are doing and where a piece of work can be improved. Their books are full of their ‘green pen’ responses to comments and additional challenges set by teachers after each lesson…

The school is at the forefront of curriculum innovation through the creative and extensive links that are made between subjects. Pupils also have exciting opportunities to apply their technology skills in a real context through the school’s ‘Virtual Learning Environment’…

Everyone shares the executive principal’s vision and commitment to the pupils. The leadership roles of all staff are very clearly defined and all are being held very closely accountable for the quality of provision and standards in their areas of responsibility…

The role of the federation in securing success at Mandeville was also highlighted:

The remarkable progress that has taken place in less than a year stems directly from working in partnership with the federation. Teaching is improving rapidly as the school is able to draw on expertise from across the federation to develop teachers’ skills. This and the impending formal entry of the school into the federation, with the continued benefits this brings, provide the school with excellent capacity to secure further improvement.

You can download the full report here.

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December 2009
Article in the Hackney Gazette

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November 2009
Mandeville and Woodberry Down on TV!
A clip from the Daily Politics Show

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November 2009
Mandeville Primary School now has a website! We will aim to keep the site as up to date as possible. The weekly newsletter will always be available online from now on.
Please come back soon and see how things are progressing.

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November 2009
The school now has a Virtual learning environment. Click the 'Our VLE' link from the homepage.

For children
This means you can join the site, leave messages and chat! You can also do work linked to your school lessons. The site has just started - but please join!

For teachers
A Virtual learning environment (VLE) is a software system designed to facilitate teachers in the management of educational courses for their students, especially by helping teachers and learners with course administration.
Components of the VLE include templates for content pages, discussion forums, chat, quizzes and exercises such as multiple-choice, true/false and one-word-answer. Teachers fill in these templates and then release them for learners to use.
At Mandeville our first year of the VLE will primarily see us making it an online T drive.

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