STANLEY DRAPKIN
PRIMARY SCHOOL,STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD
Bower Hall Drive, Steeple Bumpstead, near Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 7ED
telephone: 01440 730220 fax: 01440 730907
email enquiries: sbump_carol@hotmail.com
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OFSTED NOVEMBER 2007 - " ... undoubtedly a very effective school, which is well led and managed by an effective and experienced team ... there are elements of school life that are outstanding ... Personal development and well being [of the children] are good with outstanding features. Pupils talk excitedly about the 'great school' they attend ... care, guidance and support are outstanding ..."
Check out the PTA section NOW! It's nearly time for the 2009 Christmas Bazaar! Themed, this year, around a Winter Wonderland outdoor Christmas scene, the PTA's little helpers are currently hard at work making preparations for the Big Day, Sunday 29th November 1pm - 4pm! So, book this day into your diary NOW! In the meantime, catch up with all current school news, including our open day, Operation Christmas Shoebox and the PTA Big Quiz Night, by simply heading off to the Latest News section for the very newest news in the latest school newsletter! If you have sometimes not received the newsletter via your child's book bag, or fear that this may happen, would it be easier for you if the school newsletters were emailed to you? If so, please give your email address to Mrs Carol Smith in the office or alternatively email your address to sbump_carol@hotmail.com ... so while getting all the school news, you'll also help save paper too! 
So, although another year came and went, and we've said goodbye to another fabulous Year 6 the school can bask in the glory of yet more great SATs results in both Key Stages. English in Key Stage 2 hit the dazzling dizzy heights of 100% attainment (68% Level 5 for Reading and 52% Level 5 for Writing) while Maths weighed in with 92% (44% Level 5) and Science a forceful 96% (60% Level 5) - so well done to all those great Year 6 children! Elsewhere in the school, with lots of effective strategies put into place throughout the school, externally marked writing assessments by the NFER (National Foundation for Educational Research) continue to show that our improvements in writing are really making a difference throughout all year groups as Writing attainment remains high, with skills acquired year-on-year now feeding through to overall pupil and school attaiment and progress.
Every little bit did help! Yes, it has been and gone again, that time of the year when the school collected vouchers to provide additional sports and computer resources for the children. So, without ever mentioning those two competing supermarket chains who could make sure that every little bit helps and help you try something new today, we raised an incredible 14,800 and 24,000 vouchers from each respectively! What we are able to obtain includes 2 DVD Video Cams, while the sports choices have yet to be made!! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO COLLECTED AND DONATED!!
Our fabulous PTA now has its own button and page on the site! So, do you have a little time you'd could spare? Are you a supporter of the school's place at the centre of the community? Then maybe you are just what the P.T.A. is looking for. The current newsletter contains a saddening piece of information, 'We have a very loyal and hardworking team on the PTA who is finding it very difficult at the moment to rustle up volunteers for events and in particular for the fete in the summer. Unless we have enough helpers, then we will have to consider whether we are able to go ahead with such events. Not to have them would be a great loss to the school, the village and to the children who ultimately benefit from the proceeds ...' Any help is both enormously valued and appreciated ...
They seek it here, they seek it there.Their clothes are ... bright yellowy green!
The school's Walking Bus enters its second year of service! The lanes and byways of Bumpstead will witness again the snaking trickles of converging safety jacket-clad pedestrian traffic heading cheerfully towards the school ... Let's hope for no traffic bottlenecks, missed buses or worst of all - enraged commuters! All aboard now and mind the gap!!
A new link has been added in the Web Links section ... in 2005 Year 6 pupil Maggie Vale left us for Hedingham School and was later diagnosed with cancer. Sadly, in October 2008 Maggie sadly lost her battle with cancer. Very recently, her sister, Charlotte, wrote and recorded a tribute song. The song has since been uploaded to YouTube and now linked to our site a a small tribute to one of our past pupils ...
Just on a website whistle stop tour? Then do the following!
Our website is the home for a wide range of information that is equally useful to parents, children, prospective children and parents aswell as all our staff and friends of the school community. We know that you will find it useful. Why not head off the 'Web Links' section and follow the link to the BBC website, where you will see our page showing where we are in the Government's new set of school league tables - the 'value added ones' you have heard about in the news recently. Comparisons can be made both locally and nationally on how children have progressed during their primary school careers. Also, in this section are some web links for parents - for helping your child with school work and a general site run by the DfES where parents can find out loads about what goes on in a school. Finally, always worth a detour is a visit to the 'Guestbook' section to read some of the lovely comments from past pupils. So there it is ... what a fabulous filling feast of information there is laid before you to help you find out what the school is like! So, do continue to come back and visit and stay in touch! A reminder ... an important reminder about online safety at home. While the content of the school web access is strictly filtered, children's web access at home may not be. Worthwhile advice for parents can be found at : www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/your_kids/safety_internet.shtml while advice aimed at younger people can be found at:
Visit the 'Documents' section containing important school policies (vital sources of key information for parents and prospective parents alike). Additionally, there is 'Class Matters!' section here too, and by following the hyperlinks, this section splits into separate class section sub-categories and then further into a place where each class will publish the class's termly teacher to pupils and parents and copies of each class's termly reports that are sent to the school's Governing Body. These new documents make a useful read to gain more information about what goes on in the classrooms and offer another wonderful resource to complement the other available information, giving website visitors a broad picture of life at Stanley Drapkin!