Here are some websites to help your child with their learning at home.
- Education City
- Bug Club and Active Learn
- Phonics Play
- Homework Help
- Espresso Coding
Numeracy Games
Literacy Games
- History Topics
Here are some websites to help your child with their learning at home.
SENCO name and contact details
Mrs Sue Watson – Assistant Head / Learning Support Co-ordinator
To make an appointment with the school’s Learning Support Co-ordinator please telephone the school office on 020 8270 4670 and speak to Ms Julia Woodstock, Admin Assistant Learning Support.
Learning Support Team Information
Mrs Sue Watson | Bachelor of Education / Master of Arts (Special Educational Needs / ESSEL (Speech Language and Communication) / Enhanced Autism Awareness / TEACCH Training |
Miss Jennifer Barlex | CertEd / Reading Recovery Trained |
Mrs Sarah Barbet-Sawyer | GTP / Reading Recovery Trained |
Mrs Naheed Taslim | PGCE / Reading Recovery Trained |
Mrs Lesley Bennett | NVQ Level 2 |
TA Training | Use of the communication table / communicate in print transition books / guided reading training / phonics training / Integris training / leading a group intervention / child protection training / better reading partners training / delivering maths intervention training / autism awareness / delivering speech link groups / precision testing. |
The Role of Parents
The SEN Code of Practice states that schools should work in partnership with parents in addressing the special needs of pupils within the school.
It is vital that parents work closely with the school in order for the pupil to achieve their learning potential. Parents are responsible for communicating effectively with the school and with the SEN professionals in order to support their child’s education. They should alert the school to concerns and relevant information relating to their child’s needs and fulfil their obligations to support their child.
Parents are invited to attend meetings to discuss their child’s progress. These meetings will give you the chance to contribute about the current provision in place to make sure that it is still appropriate.
Useful Contacts
The Community Educational Psychology Service: Roycraft House, 15 Linton Road, Barking, IG11 8HE – Telephone: 020 8270 6900
The Child Development Team: The Child and Family Centre, 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ – Telephone: 020 8522 9609
The Speech and Language Therapy Team: The Child and Family Centre, 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LY – Telephone: 0208 522 9625
Parents in Partnership: Carers of Barking and Dagenham, 334 Heathway, Dagenham, RM10 8NJ – Phone: 020 8593 4422
The Sycamore Trust: 27-29 Woodward Road, Dagenham, RM9 4SJ – Telephone: 020 8517 9317 / 020 8262 5330
The Heathway Centre: 512a The Heathway, Dagenham, RM10 7SJ – Telephone: 020 8227 5500
LA’s Local Offer for SEND
How the GB will deal with any SEND complaints
All complaints will be dealt with through the Schools Standard Complaint Policy.
What is the Sports Premium?
The government is providing funding of £150 million per annum for the academic years 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 to provide new and substantial primary school sport funding. The funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school Headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. Each school will receive £8,000 plus an extra £5 per pupil each year for the next two years – at Ripple Primary School that will mean around £11,500 in each of the three years. This money can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.
Purpose of the funding
All schools have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but there is freedom to choose how we do it. At Ripple Primary School we recognise the contribution of PE to the health and well-being of the children. In addition, we believe that an innovative and varied PE curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities have a positive influence on the concentration, attitude and academic achievement of all children.
Uses of the funding include:
At Ripple Primary School the governors agree that the money must be used so that all children benefit regardless of their sporting ability. We use our Sports Funding allocation to continue to place a very high priority on our PE provision.
The school employ a PE specialist coach who runs extra sessions, after school and holiday clubs and assists with special sporting events such as Health and Fitness Week and Sports Days.
Our Sport coach also works with small groups of children to support physical development and also to boost confidence and friendships.
Our staff work together to give the children a secure set of sporting skills. At the same time, we strive to inspire the children by inviting professional sportsmen and women to school. They share their passion for sport and inspire the pupils.
Ripple Primary strives for success and have been developing our sports teams who have done very well in inter-school and inter-borough sports competitions. Just have a look at our trophy cabinet. Extracurricular enrichment activities, subsidised by Sports Funding, have contributed to the school achieved local, regional and national success and recognition, e.g. cricket and football teams playing in competitive finals at Lords and at Anfield (not bad for a school with no grass or pitches).
We have supported sport, not just for pupils but also for parents in providing agility and fitness equipment in some play grounds to use in the morning. This not only improves fitness levels but ensures that parents are given the opportunity to participate and set an example for our pupils.
Ripple Primary School supports the strong school sport partnership infrastructure in Barking and Dagenham and we recognise this as key to the high participation levels in the school games competitions and festivals and CPD provision, as well as leadership and volunteering opportunities
The school is always looking for opportunities to develop sport and fitness and we have spent significantly more than the Government grant to ensure our children benefit from the best provision.
Impact of School Sports Funding
The Sports Funding Allocation has been used to develop healthy lifestyle choices and the physical wellbeing of all pupils. On-going teacher assessments, session observations and monitoring procedures are in place to gauge pupil progress and the impact that Sports Funding is having across our whole school. On the basis of this, in 2014-2015, the teaching of PE across the school was evaluated to be good. This included the excellent additional targeted group work that the Sports Coach undertook through the year with SEMH children and pupils at risk of being obese in adulthood. This judgement was also externally validated by Ofsted in May 2016. Through the further development of our middle leadership in PE, the appointment of a new Sports Coach, the procuring of a PE new scheme of work for the school and further CPD for all staff we aim to take the quality of teaching and learning in PE to outstanding during 2016-2017.
The most recent Ofsted report Ofsted Inspection (May 2016) notes that:
“Sports funding has also been used well to provide good-quality teaching in a range of sports. Pupils enjoy physical education and appreciate the wide range of sports on offer, such as athletics, volleyball and dance.” |
The school’s Sports Funding Champion (Roger Mitchell) and Link Governor (Jade Brindley) monitor the impact of the school’s Sports Premium spending on a termly basis. At these meetings, the school’s termly assessment data is used to monitor the in year progress for Sports Premium children as compared to the full cohort.
The next full review of the Sports Funding will be undertaken by the school in November 2017.
The Acorns is part of Ripple Primary School and is located at the Westbury Site.
It is a small preventative, child-centred behaviour provision working to promote the inclusion of young children who have been identified as at risk of educational and/or social exclusion. It works with Schools and Parents/Carers of pupils who show significant and enduring emotional, social and behavioural difficulties, both in school and at home, which are interfering with their learning and relationships.
The focus of this support are vulnerable pupils in the lower end of the Primary Phase. The needs of ‘looked after’ children are prioritised, and pupils with Educational Health Care Plans (EHC) in this age group who meet our criteria can also be referred for support at The Acorns.
The Acorns has an experienced multi-disciplinary team of Teachers, Nursery Nurses/Support Assistants and Educational Psychologist.
The Team provide individually tailored, intensive, joint school/home packages of support for up to 12 vulnerable young children, their families and schools from across the Borough. The support package lasts for approximately one year and the aim is to help each pupil, their family and school overcome the difficulties they are experiencing, and for the child to enjoy success and return in their mainstream school.
Please click on the document link below regarding this parent workshop:
On Tuesday, 9th December 2014 Matt Jarvis and Roberta Moore visited Ripple Primary School, Bobby Moore’s primary school, to launch the Moore Family Foundation.
West Ham United’s new principal charity, the Moore Family Foundation, is now officially up and running following a lively launch event at Ripple Primary School, the very place that Bobby Moore once attended.
Community Sports Trust patron Matt Jarvis and founder Roberta Moore, daughter of Bobby Moore, were on hand to give the charity lift off, together with some 90 year six pupils and the Foundation’s many key partners.
Read more about the launch event at:
http://www.whufc.com/articles/20141212/moore-family-foundation-launches_2236884_4359761
Roberta, her son Freddie and niece Poppy with Matt Jarvis at the launch
At Ripple Primary School we are proud to provide a safe, stimulating and inclusive learning environment where every member of our community is valued and respected. We listen to each other and every voice is heard.
Our broad, balanced, creative curriculum and enrichment activities provide opportunities for all to achieve and succeed.
We celebrate our achievements, differences and cultural diversity. Together we take pride in making a positive contribution to our school and the wider community.
We have recently received a large number of requests to take pupils out of school during term time, and this seems to increase dramatically around school holidays, so I am writing to clarify the school’s position on this and also how the local authority has recently changed its fining system for such absences. Continue reading
Children bringing Loom Bands into school is causing a problem. Continue reading
Movember, the month formerly known as November, is when men and this year the men at Ripple Primary School raise cancer awareness.
Important Information
Human saliva and phlegm are dangerous because they spread disease. Continue reading
A fixed penalty fine, per child per adult, will always be issued when holidays are taken during term time. Continue reading