A warm welcome from our
Headteacher
“Our aim is to make learning fun, enjoyable and inspiring! If we can open children’s minds to accepting a challenge and enjoying meeting it, then we open a world of opportunities for them. Opportunities to meet with success, realise their potential and follow their dreams! Primary school children enjoying their learning is key to future success!”
Aletheia Academies Trust
Horton Kirby Church of England Primary School joined as a member of Aletheia Academies Trust in 2017.
Aletheia is committed to sustaining high-quality schools, and supporting schools in need of specific improvement in some of the more challenging wards in Kent. Our focus is to provide school improvement services that draw on the wealth of practice from across our trust, broaden the expertise available to schools through flexible working arrangements and increase our capacity to quickly respond to the needs of individual schools. Pedagogical excellence is at the heart of all we do with a sustained focus on collaborative and mastery learning.
“Since starting school in September we feel that our daughter has developed most notably with her reading and writing skills. This is undoubtedly down to your (Mrs Philpott) teaching skills and efforts with her and her classmates. She enjoys school so much and only ever talks positively about her day at school. We couldn’t be happier with her progress!”
“I am so pleased how my little girl has developed in the short time she has been in reception and I don’t doubt this is all because of Mrs Philpott and Mrs Wakeman. Her knowledge of numbers and letters has greatly improved. She came home teaching me about digraphs the other day, I was amazed at what she has learnt. She loves to go in every day and comes home with a smile”.
“Just a very quick email to say that we’ve been really impressed with the lessons and resources that have been planned for Oak class this week. Both Mrs Lalli & Miss Harper have put in a lot of thought into making interesting lessons for the children”.
In Key Stage 2 attainment at the higher standard in English grammar, punctuation and spelling test (46%), Maths (54%) and greater depth Writing (34%) were significantly above national and in the highest 20% in 2022.
In Key Stage 1 attainment at the expected standard in Reading (90%), Maths (86%) and Writing (74%) were significantly above national and in the highest 20% in 2022.
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Some snapshots of our lovely Christmas lunch, yesterday! ☺️🎄
Year 1 went on a festive walk to post their letters to Santa!
Acorn Class visited St Mary`s Church, Horton Kirby where we helped to set up the Nativity scene and learned about the Advent Wreath. Back in school, we made Christingles. We learned about the meaning of the different parts of the Christingle. The orange represents the Earth, the red ribbon is the blood of Jesus and God`s everlasting love, the four cocktail sticks are the seasons of the year. We added dried fruit to represent the fruits that each season gives us. The candle in the middle symbolises `happiness` and the flame on the candle is `Jesus, the Light of the World`. This year, we are thinking of how we can show kindness and love to others as a way to create happiness.
Acorn Class visited St Mary`s Church, Horton Kirby where we helped to set up the Nativity scene and learned about the Advent Wreath. Back in school, we made Christingles. We learned about the meaning of the different parts of the Christingle. The orange represents the Earth, the red ribbon is the blood of Jesus and God`s everlasting love, the four cocktail sticks are the seasons of the year. We added dried fruit to represent the fruits that each season gives us. The candle in the middle symbolises `happiness` and the flame on the candle is `Jesus, the Light of the World`. This year, we are thinking of how we can show kindness and love to others as a way to create happiness.