Please remember in your prayers over the coming two months pupils and students at St Peter’s and Oaklands who will be undertaking various different forms of public and national assessments.  Students aged 16 and 18 tend to grab the headlines in the August results, but don’t forget about Year 6 SATs, Year 4 multiplication tables tests, and Year 1 phonics screening tests.  Equally, exams such as GCSEs and A-Levels may have the higher profile, but young people aged between 16 and 18 take a wide variety of different courses assessments to test their learning, check their understanding and exercise their recall.  All of the different types of assessment are designed to give young people the best opportunities in the next stages of their lives, whether that is for further learning and study, an apprenticeship or entering directly into the workplace.  The pupils and students in our schools work incredibly hard, guided by teachers and a wide range of learning support and auxiliary staff – they all would appreciate your prayers as the academic year enters its final furlong. 

Mr R Cunningham
Executive Headteacher