Eco Cart Video

Eco Cart Race Day

On Sunday our Eco Cart team competed against 23 other teams in an all day event at BAE Rochester. Our team have been working since early 2012 developing and building our cart made largely from recycled materials. We took part in 6 heats and performed extremely well finishing 2nd twice, 3rd twice and 5th twice.
A huge well done to all the drivers, pit crew and helpers. Thanks so much for all the support our parents gave, a special well done to Mrs Phillips and Mrs Robson for organising the team. Thanks also to our engineer Wes who was unable to make race day. Finally, a very special thank you to Mr Gill for stepping in at the last minute as our starter.
The competition is definitely a learning curve, and we improved vastly on our results from last year as we learnt how to squeeze a few extra mph from the Eco Cart. We're looking forward to next year already!!!

PTA Quiz Night

The PTA quiz night on Friday was very well attended and a great deal of fun was had by all who came. Thank you so much to our hard-working PTA for organising this event, a special thanks to Mr Page for being a most excellent quizmaster.
The event raised £185 for PTA funds.
Hope to see many of you at the next event.

Collaboration with Rosherville

We are very proud that Wrotham Road has been recognised as a very successful school, both by Ofsted through our inspection last summer, and by the Local Education Authority. The school has already shared this success by contributing to the development of other local schools through sharing of expertise and best practice by the Senior Management Team and other teachers. 

The Local Education Authority has recently asked for the school to be closely involved in supporting another local school (Rosherville). The Governors have met, discussed the proposal and have agreed that Mr Hovey will act as Executive Headteacher for both Wrotham Road and Rosherville schools for a temporary period of 1 year starting in September. He will have the strategic overview of both schools and will be splitting his time between the two sites, but due to the nature of issues that need addressing in the other school he will initially be spending slightly more time there, with 3 days a week at Rosherville. Both schools will continue as separate schools run by separate Governing Bodies and the arrangement will be closely monitored by both Governing Bodies and the Local Authority.

Mrs Green, will assume a new role as Head of School here at Wrotham Road and will have responsibility for the day-to day running of the school when Mr Hovey is not here. However, Mr Hovey will still be available at Wrotham Road during parent evenings and other school events, as well as being available at times during every week.

The ethos of our school and the drive for continual improvement will remain unchanged.  We are pleased that there will be sharing of best practice by staff from both schools and think that this will be another opportunity for Wrotham Road to develop and for its pupils to benefit.

The Governors believe that the school has the capacity to support another school in this way through sharing the knowledge, expertise and vision that has helped Wrotham Road become the excellent school it is.

There will be a Parents’ Forum meeting on Wednesday 20^th June, 5pm in the main hall at which we will be happy to answer any questions you may have or if you wish to speak to Mr Hovey or Mrs Green please feel free to make an appointment via the School Office.

Ann Walker

Chair of Governors

Kent Children's University

There have been a few delays on issuing the latest batch of passports but they should all be with children now.

This Thursday if children bring their passports to me I will update any stamps from school clubs over the last few weeks.

However, please remember that children can only be issued stamps by clubs and venues that are affiliated to the scheme. I’m afraid I can only give stamps for clubs attended here at Wrotham Road (excluding Breakfast and After School Club).

If you wish your child to gain stamps from other out of school activities such as swimming, Brownies, Cubs, ballet etc then these clubs must affiliate. You can suggest to those club leaders that they contact emma.jenkins@kent.gov.uk who can then go through the affiliation process with them.

We now have enough stamps for all our clubs so children can take their passport to each club they attend in school and collect their stamps then and there. Please remind them if they have a club to take their passport with them.

Some parents had also mentioned that during recent visits to places such as Chatham Dockyard and Leeds Castle (which are affiliated) the staff were unaware of the scheme. I can only assume this was due to new or temp employees who hadn’t been properly informed. KCU have been in touch with such venues to ensure all staff know about the scheme.