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RECEPTION 2022 INTAKE

TOURS OF THE SCHOOL

We invite and welcome prospective parents to come and look around our school before applying. Due to COVID restrictions, we can only permit one parent to attend the tour. This will consist of a brief Welcome held by the Headteacher and a tour of the school afterwards. Parents can bring their child with them if they wish.

To book onto one of the tours below, please call the school office on 01634 864 721 or email us at office@maundene.medway.sch.uk .

Monday 4th October at 9:30am

Wednesday 13th October at 9:30am

Tuesday 2nd November at 9:30am

Monday 8th November at 9:30am

HOW TO COMPLETE YOUR PRIMARY SCHOOL APPLICATION

All schools in Medway have a single point of entry for reception and admit children in September. Please visit the Medway Council website for further details and an online application form at https://www.medway.gov.uk/info/200137/schools_and_learning/1059/applying_for_a_primary_school_place

The deadline for Reception applications is 5pm on Saturday 15 January 2022

INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE PARENTS

Thank you for considering Maundene Primary School as a school for your child starting in September 2022. We are delighted to share further information with you here, including a video tour further down this page to help with your decision to choose Maundene

Maundene Primary School is a two form entry inclusive Primary School located in the heart of Walderslade, with the space to welcome sixty children to our Reception setting each year.

Our vision and values underpin all that we do, and we ensure that through our teaching, learning and provision, every child is given the best possible beginning to their education in order to make great strides in their learning. We work closely with outside agencies to meet any additional needs of the pupils, and partnerships with parents are crucial to us in supporting pupils' learning, progress and happiness. We have a ‘limitless minds’ approach to our learning and strongly believe that all children have the potential to achieve well when provided with rich learning opportunities, experiences, care and guidance. We challenge our children and ourselves to be the best we can be in a safe, creative, rich and purposeful environment.

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Our learning is planned around a skills based global curriculum that we feel is relevant for life and learning in the 21st Century, and critically important for future success. We believe that global learning helps pupils make sense of the increasingly complex and rapidly changing world in which they live. Each half term we plan the pupils' learning in depth using a core-text approach, engaging the children in high quality texts and rich and meaningful learning experiences which ensures they feel connected to their learning and the world around them.

During our most recent Challenge Partners inspection in March 2020, they found that:

'The curriculum provides pupils with the knowledge and skills to challenge, make sense of global issues and to be a catalyst for personal action'

'Forest school for EYFS is effectively run and enhances the curriculum by developing risk taking, team building, fascination and knowledge of the outside environment'

'The relentless focus on quality first teaching has ensured that staff have a plethora of approaches to remove barriers for learning'

'The good level of development (GLD) in Early Years has been in line with national figures for the last three years'

'Teachers execute well-structured lessons with clear success criteria. Pupils are set different challenges according to their needs. New vocabulary is explicitly taught. Teachers use modelling and re-phrasing and ensure their assessments are accurate to plan next learning steps. Pupils are guided to link learning to previous learning and real-life experiences'

'The curriculum is carefully enriched by a wide variety of school trips and visiting speakers'

We consider every member of our school community to be a life-long learner and value all contributions to the continued improvements to our school

AN INSIDE LOOK AT MAUNDENE PRIMARY SCHOOL

We are delighted to share further information with you here, including a virtual video tour, to help with your decision to choose Maundene.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT US

CURRICULUM

At Maundene, we believe in shaping and educating our children to become citizens for the 21st century by Image10.1 broadening their minds and experiences. We do this through our Inspire Global Curriculum, which comprises of 6 themes:

Peace and Conflict
Human Rights
Identity and Diversity
Power and Governance
Social Justice and Equity
Sustainable Development

Each term, EYFS shape their learning around a topic which is enriched with a variety of quality core-texts, trips and provision. We also make strong connections with global learning and citizenship. The children will build up to a project each term. Past projects included planting gardens for the bees and delivering food parcels to needy families.

Along with this, we use Development Matters to ensure that children receive an age appropriate curriculum based on the seven areas of learning in EYFS:

Communication and Language
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design

PHONICS

In Reception, each child takes part in daily phonics lessons to develop their letters and sound knowledge, as well as to build on their early reading skills.

We encourage the children to use phonics throughout their learning, and regularly promote phonics development within the resources and provision.

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

The classroom learning environment is the ‘Third Teacher’. It supports us all in giving messages about our ethos and values and celebrates high quality learning. Through our high-quality learning environment, we provide children with a stimulating, enriching and creative learning experience.

All of our classrooms are arranged so that children can move freely, accessing the resources and provision that suits their needs and interests. The equipment and resources are planned around the seven areas of development, and the global theme or topic.

An important part of the Early Years curriculum requires us to provide children with ample opportunity for outdoor learning and malleable play, e.g. water, mud, dough etc. Children are entitled to access our outdoor areas at all times.

THE SCHOOL DAY

Our daily timetable encourages your child to learn and develop in a range of ways. Throughout the day, they will take part in whole class lessons, small group lessons, and engage in independent activities during ‘choosing’ time. This means they can move freely around the classroom to access the resources and equipment available. We also incorporate additional lessons on a weekly basis, such as Art, PE, Circle Times and more.

LUNCH

You can choose for your child to enjoy school dinners or they can bring a packed lunch to school. Our dinner menus are changed termly and are on a 3 week rotation. There are vegetarian options for every meal. We have fruit available each day for children to have as a snack, as well as free school milk.

From September 2014, all children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to free school meals.

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UNIFORM

At Maundene, School Uniform is compulsory and consists of:

Uniform:

Grey trousers/ tailored shorts (summer only)
Grey pleated skirts/pinafore dress
School logo Red polo shirt
School logo Red cardigan/jumper
Red gingham dress (summer only)
Grey/white/red tights
White/black socks
Black shoes/ankle winter boots – no trainers

PE:

Red shorts
House colour Logo PE Top
Grey tracksuit no logos for outdoor PE
Trainers for outside (black) Plimsoles for indoor

General:

Long hair tied up
Hair toggles/headbands/bow to a minimum and either red, grey or white
No makeup
No nail varnish
No jewellery other than plain gold/silver studs and a watch which are to be removed for PE
or taped over (provided by the parent)
School logo PE bags

School logo book bags or school backpack, no other bag is allowed

Children wearing hijabs, headscarves or head coverings should wear plain black, red, white, or grey to fit with the colours of the school.

Logo uniform can be purchased from Uniform Base or School Time in Railway Street in Chatham.

PARENTS

At Maundene School, we know that parents are children’s first educators and we value being partners with them in their child’s education.

We ensure that parents are fully involved in their child’s education by:

Regularly sharing children’s ‘Learning Journeys’ through Tapestry and valuing the ongoing contributions to this from parents/carers
Giving parents/carers the opportunity to take part in their child's education and share their interests and expertise
Delivering workshops to share our practice, ethos and ideas with parents/carers e.g. Phonics demonstrations and Early Readers workshops
Promoting a love of reading for parents/carers to read with their child
Opportunities for parents/carers to participate in learning through celebrations