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Children at Arden Forest Infant School benefit from a high quality learning environment. Our facilities include a large hall, a Reception Unit, Key Stage 1 classrooms and a number of different size intervention spaces for the different year groups. Our outdoor environment includes an extensive area dedicated to our reception classes and a large playground and field to the rear of the school for KS1 children. We also have a courtyard which is used for outdoor learning.

Vision Statement

At Arden Forest our vision is to:

Enable our whole school community with the skills to be happy, successful and independent life-long learners with healthy mind, bodies and spirit.

 

Admissions

As a local Authority Maintained School all school admissions & appeals should go through the local Authority Admission process.

Meet the Staff

Mrs Gunn

Head Teacher

Miss Ashby

Deputy Head Teacher

Mrs Kemp

Business Manager

Mrs Feltwell

Admin. Assistant

Trevor Hoskin

Chair of Governors

Teaching Staff

Mrs Winfield

Teacher

Mrs Amos

Teacher

Miss McGee

Teacher

Miss Ashcroft

Teacher

Miss Gailey

Teacher

Support Staff

Mrs Wagstaff

Pastoral Manager

Mrs Fairchild

HLTA

Mrs Stoney

Teaching Assistant

Miss Bakewell

Teaching Assistant

Mrs Christie

Teaching Assistant

Mrs Woodhouse

Teaching Assistant

Miss Turner

Teaching Assistant

Miss Wallace

Teaching Assistant

Mrs Kearney

Teaching Assistant

Lunchtime Staff

Mrs Treadwell

Midday Supervisor

Mrs Simpson

Midday Supervisor

Mrs Stewart

Midday Supervisor

Mrs Wilson

Midday Supervisor

Mrs Ball

Midday Supervisor

Catering Staff

Maria Hall

School Cook

Tracey Steadman

Catering Assistant

Grounds

Mrs Thompson

Caretaker

Mrs Barnett

Cleaner

Governors

Trevor Hoskin

Chair of Governors

A message from the Chair of Governors

Arden Forest Governors want the school to offer an environment that cares for its children, families and staff. We want our school to succeed in all that it does and play its part in the local community.

Our role as a Governing Body is to support the school’s leadership team by acting as a critical friend, reviewing and monitoring all aspects of school life to ensure that our children’s first school years are enjoyable and rewarding.

We also have overall responsibility for maintaining standards within the school, setting the budget and for developing the future strategy for the school. The strength of any Governing Body is based on being able to listen to stakeholders and on obtaining access to specialist skills.

Talk to us

We are always keen to listen to parents, staff and children. If you would like to get in touch with us, please do so via the school office.

We actively welcome Parents views on how we could be more accessible and share our vision for the School.

Getting involved and specialist skills

If you would like to be a Governor we would be happy to talk to you about the role and how / when you could be elected or appointed but you can also get involved without being a Governor. We are always happy to hear from parents who can help.

The Governors Newsletters

  • Arden Forest Infant School Governing Body

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Governing Body Data

  • Governing Body Memebership 2023

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  • FGB Attendance 2022-23

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SEN & Equality

Documents

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    SEND LETTER - MRS SHREEVE SEP 22.docx

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    AFIS-Sen Policy-Oct-2021

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    AFIS SEND Policy & Information Report - Updated 2023 (1)

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    AFIS SEND Routeway of Provision - 2023

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    AFIS-Equality-Impact-Assessment-Form-Sept-2021

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    AFIS Equality-and-Diversity-Policy 2021 - 22

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    AFIS Equality Information and Objectives - Oct 2022

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    AFIS Accessibility Plan 2022 updated

    Type: PDF

Mrs Shreeve

SENCo

Disability Resources

Family Action

Family Action transforms lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation across the country.
SEND

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) – the Local Offer
Family Fund

If you’re raising a disabled or seriously ill child or young person, you might be eligible for a grant from Family Fund.
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For families with disabled children
SENDIAS

Warwickshire SENDIAS is free support for parents and carers of all Warwickshire children with special educational needs and disabilities

School Council

The School Council meets each week with Mrs. Winfield. There are two members of the School Council from each class.

We help Mrs Gunn our Headteacher, by working on things that she needs help with and where she wants to know what the children in school think.

We listen to the children in our class and share their ideas at our meetings.

This year:

  • We held a competition to name our school families with The Chair of Governors
  • We monitored handwriting in school through a ‘book look’ with feedback to our classes. We also made some new rules and voted that rubbers shouldn’t be used in our books because we need to see our progress.
  • We found out what our class most ‘memorable learning moments’ and our ‘boring bits’ are.
  • We talked to school Governors at a meeting and through videos about our work.
  • We worked with Miss Gailey to support her Safer Internet assembly and workshop with families.