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Friends of Windsor Boys' School Christmas Dinner and Dance |
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Saturday 13th December 2008
7.15pm for 7.45pm until 12.00
We are delighted to invite you to our annual Christmas Dinner and Dance on Saturday 13th December 2008. This very popular event is held in the main School Hall which is transformed into a spectacular festive venue so that you will hardly recognise it! The tickets cost £25 each which includes a Christmas meal, and music and dancing to a live band, “Sultana”. There is also a cash bar and raffle and all profits from the evening are used for current projects at the School. For those of you who have not been before, this really is a fantastic evening and, for many, it marks the beginning of the Christmas celebrations. Numbers are limited so please order your tickets now using the attached order form. Click here to download the Order Form
If you have any queries, then please speak to the Friends’ Secretary, Helen Archibald, on 01753 830944.
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Dear Parent/Guardian, As you know, we are continuously evaluating ways to raise the achievements of our Learners. I'm pleased to announce that the school has recently subscribed to SAM Learning Secondary, a top quality eLearning service that has been proven to improve GCSE grades through GCSE exam practice and related work. One of the key features of this service is that it can be accessed from virtually any computer with Internet access - and other schools who use it report significant usage outside the core school day. SAM Learning Secondary usually costs home users £99.99 per year, but our Learners now have unrestricted use of this service totally free of charge. If you have a computer with Internet access at home, I hope you will allow it to be used to access this service, but if that is not possible, we will be making arrangements for access to computer time in school outside timetabled Task Hours, so that no-one is at a disadvantage. Of course, it is also possible that Learners may use SAM Learning Secondary from computers in other places such as libraries and community centres. I realise you may have concerns about youngsters using the Internet, and may wish to establish your own family rules about where and when this is to be done. To access the service at www.samlearning.com, Learners need three details: Centre ID: SL4WB2User ID: Date of birth followed by two initials; first name then last name.Example: 010896DJ is the User ID for David Jones born 1st Aug 1996. Password: Initially same as User ID.Learners are encouraged to change this to something difficult to guess or work out. We do hope that you will take full advantage of this service and thank you in anticipation of your support for this initiative. Yours faithfully, Mr T.Willis Deputy Head |
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To All Parents/Guardians,
I am delighted to enclose the Ofsted report of the Inspection of Windsor Boys’ School
on 12 May, 2008.
It is now official: WBS is an ‘outstanding’ school. I could not be more proud of the outcome. There are so few ‘outstanding’, Grade 1 schools, which makes it, even more of a privilege to be associated with WBS. Students, Staff and Governors deserve the ‘outstanding’ accolade so I urge you to read the detail.
Maria Dawes, HMI, set out a summary statement of different areas they were:
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Grade
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Achievement & Standards |
1 |
Outstanding |
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Teaching & Learning |
1 |
Outstanding |
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Curriculum |
1 |
Outstanding |
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Care, Guidance & Support |
1 |
Outstanding |
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Personal Development & Well-Being |
1 |
Outstanding |
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Leadership & Management |
1 |
Outstanding |
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Overall Judgement |
1 |
Outstanding |
More detail is included in the report but this is a stunning report. It is summed up in two grades:
It is a very nice touch that Maria Dawes, HMI has written to our students in the way she has. Such was the impact of everyone of them!
There is still so much to do. The comment in my first newsletter some 11 years ago still rings true. WBS is no place for those who want a quiet life.
You will get a real flavour of this life at WBS from scrutinising the report. I hope you will scrutinize it. It makes for ‘outstanding’ reading and sees us well into the journey we continue to make as a school from ‘Good to Great’.
Yours sincerely
Mr JB Dawkins
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