Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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World Book Day
Fri 04 Mar 2016World Book Day has been a great success yet again this year. We have had some fabulous costumes in school from the children. Raising £129.55 for St. Trizah's.Keep an eye on your children's eschool web pages for class photographs. Take a look at the staff in their costumes! Thanks again for your support.
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Ofsted Letter
Thu 17 Dec 2015Dear Parents and Carers
I am writing to let you know that we had a Monitoring Inspection from Her Majesty’s Inspector, Mrs Dorothy Bathgate on Monday 7th December. The purpose of the visit was to assess the actions and progress the school has made against the targets which were set in our full OFSTED inspection in May 2015. The letter from Mrs Bathgate is attached for you to read. A copy will also be available on our website.
Mrs Bathgate was very impressed with the wealth of evidence which we have for each target to show what we have done and the large amount of progress we have made. In her feedback to Senior Leaders and Governors, Mrs Bathgate commented that normally a school which has been judged as Requires Improvement, could expect to wait up to 7 terms after their inspection before being re-inspected. This could have meant that we would have to wait up to December 2017 before we had a chance to be graded as a good school.
The governors, staff and the HMI feel that we are currently more than capable of providing enough evidence in order to get a good grading now. In recognition of this the HMI has recommended that we are re-inspected much sooner by OFSTED. An early re-inspection gives the school the chance to get back to ‘good’ more quickly than would otherwise have been possible. This has been confirmed by the Regional Director of OFSTED and we are likely to see them in the Summer term.
We are really pleased to get this very positive feedback on the work all staff and governors have put in. Mrs Bathgate spent time with our children also and was full of praise for their excellent behaviour and also the way in which they work in lessons. We see this as a clear vindication of the fact that our recent OFSTED judgement was very harsh on the school.
I hope you will agree this is fantastic news for everyone involved with Albany Junior School. I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone I work with here for the amazing job they continue to do. Before the previous OFSTED, we had all worked hard to improve on the whole school results from May 2014. We focused on every child in every year group and ensured they had what they needed to progress well. Children across the school made excellent progress in 2014-15 due to the continuing great work of everybody at our school. This excellent progress is also continuing this term.
We are very happy with the outcome of this inspection and look forward to the opportunity to show that we are a consistently good school. If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact me by phone or email on head@albany-jun.notts.sch.uk.
We really appreciate your feedback and continued support.
Yours faithfully
Mr. C. Robertson
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Christmas Fayre 2015
Tue 24 Nov 2015The staff and children will be holding their annual Christmas Fayre, which takes place on Wednesday 9th December 2015, the children may look around from 2:45p.m. open to adults from 3.30pm – 4:45p.m. Visit Santa, have your face painted or shop for your last minute stocking fillers from our visiting stalls. Donations of tombola and raffle prizes will be gratefully received. Edible items for the Cake Stall on the day please.
Remember to label your cake tins/boxes with a name if you wish to collect them from the Cake Stall on the evening of the Christmas Fayre or the following day from the School Office.
Events like the Christmas Fayre always need an army of willing helpers otherwise we have to reduce the amount of stalls we can offer. If you can help set-up and/or help run a stall please leave your details by contacting the School Office. If you wish to run your own stall, tables can be booked via the school office. Tables are £5.00 and must include a raffle donation. Tables can be reserved by contacting the school office.
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Harvest Festival
Thu 22 Oct 2015Many thanks for all your contributions to our Harvest Festival this week. We had an amazing amount to share locally and also with Emmanuelle House in Nottingham. They are a charity who support homeless people and people who are isolated in the community. The children sang beautifully and thought in depth with the Revd Peter Huxtable about the reasons why we support those who are less fortunate than us. -
Mixed fortunes for the football team
Sun 11 Oct 2015So far the new look Albany Football team under the leadership of Coaches Tivey and Still has had a mixed start. The first match against local rivals Trowell, was a match which should have been more comfortable than the 3-2 score line suggests. Missed chances and dodgy defending let Trowell back into the game twice. Goals from Aiden (2) and Danny saw us home.
Last Thursday, Bramcote C of E came to Albany. Under new management they were more physical than in the past. Miss Gibson was at the helm for this one and unfortunately missed chances cost us dear. Two first half efforts were enough for a disappointing 2-0 defeat. The team kept going. Danny and Brad kept driving forward with Rogan (who was man of the match). This week some of our squad players will be playing against Southwark Primary in a friendly.
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Letter to Parents
Fri 18 Sep 2015Dear Parent and Carers
I am writing to you to share my concern about a report I had this morning from a parent who was deeply shocked. The parent concerned told me that she saw another parent waiting for their child outside the garage on Pasture Road. A young man, on a bike, cycled up to the waiting car. As the young man approached the car, the parent gave him some money and was given a bag which contained a substance, which looked like cannabis.
Now the exchange could well have been entirely innocent. However, the governors and staff are shocked and appalled that potentially parents are purchasing drugs whilst waiting to pick up children from school. Not only is this illegal but it is a terrible example to set for the young people of Albany.
As a school we spend a huge amount of time teaching children about the dangers of drugs and the people who try to sell them. We also spend a lot of time discussing the damage that they can do to a person’s health and also to their relationships with others. Additionally, we teach them that this is against the law and could result in them being prosecuted.
At the moment, we do not know who the parent is. When I find out I will have no hesitation in passing the information to our local PCSO. The staff and governors of Albany Juniors see the safety of our children as our priority and will have no hesitation in taking action.
If you have any questions about this incident please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours faithfully
Mr. C. Robertson
Head Teacher
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Great End to the Year
Sun 26 Jul 2015Today our cricket team won 2 games out of 3 whilst taking part in the Test Match Trophy Tournament at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. On a wet and windy day we had to play indoors. After being set 210 to win in the first game against Forest Town from Mansfield, we batted sensibly to score 221. In the second match the team were well beaten by 69 runs against IPSCC from Nottingham. Our final match was a local derby against the Bramcote Bears. They set 219 when they batted. The team batted sensibly and won comfortably by 12 runs.
It was a great way to say goodbye to our Year 6 children: Dylan, Connor and Richard. It also gave us a hint of our bright future in Tyler, Ben, James and captain Danny. Well done to all and many thanks to the parents on a miserable day. Many thanks to Miss Richards and Mr. Mapplebeck for their support all day.
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End of a busy year
Thu 23 Jul 2015The end of a busy year has arrived and it feels like we have only just begun! I have loved getting to know everyone and starting to move Albany Juniors in a new direction. The staff, children, governors and parents have been fantastic and generally very supportive. Many thanks to everybody and I hope you all have a very restful summer break.
Best wishes
Mr. Robertson
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Summer Fayre
Mon 20 Jul 2015A massive thank you to everyone involved in our Summer Fayre on Friday 17th July. We made a fantastic £647! So whether you donated prizes, helped run a stall, or came along and spent your hard earned cash, you contributed to a fantastic event. It was lovely to see parents and pupils currently attending school, new pupils and of course old friends who popped along to stay hello. Thank you also to the staff for their support....very much appreciated!
A huge thank you also to the Friends of Albany, who made the event a great success, raising £423 of the total money raised.
Thank you also to Georgia Purvis and Natalie James, who are Year 6 pupils in Cedar Class. They ran the sweet treats stall and donated their £28 profit to school. A lovely gesture. Well done girls :)
In addition to all of this wonderful work, each class was set the challenge of running their stall at the fayre. Our Enterprise project saw the children undertake budgeting, marketing and running their own stalls. The class making the most profit was HOLLY CLASS with a total of profit of £45.05. However collectively 7 classes made a fabulous £196.05 profit.
Well done everyone, an amazing achievement.
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Jorvik Viking Centre
Fri 10 Jul 2015As part of our summer topic, Year 4 have been looking at the role of the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings in Britain. In order to really understand daily life of the Vikings we had the opportunity to visit the JORVIK Viking centre in York.
During our visit, we worked with a modern day Viking witch, who was very convincing! She shared some examples of Viking costume with us and some children even got the chance to take on the role of a Viking noble or slave. We got to see first-hand what a Viking would have looked like during their time in Britain and learnt all about the different weapons they carried, what they represented and how they were used. The shield really came in handy when the Viking witch showed us how the hook axe works.
We travelled through time back at the JORVIK centre, where we stood on the remains of a 1000 year old Viking house excavated by the archaeologists at York. The remains showed us just how small the houses were and our Viking guide explained that there could be up to 14 people sharing one house; without any beds! After that, we entered a ride and took a tour through a Viking town recreated by the archaeologists based on what they found during their dig. During the ride we saw different Vikings at work; we could smell the fire from the forge, the stew from the houses and even saw the old man on the toilet.
Our Viking guide showed us some famous discoveries under the microscope and we had a chance to explore the JORVIK museum in more detail.
Throughout the day we had the chance to ask lots of different questions to the various Vikings and learned about how different life would have been during this time in Britain.
Everyone who came on the trip thoroughly enjoyed their day and were well impressed with the children’s behaviour. All staff were proud of everyone and their attitude towards learning during the day. A great success!!
