Curriculum Do you want to find out more about our curriculum at South Hill? Take a look at the following pages.

Information pour les parents Veuillez consulter les pages suivantes pour obtenir des informations sur l'école.

Lunch Zone Lunches are provided by HCL, our catering providers. More information about them can be found here. Fresh meals are cooking on the premises each day. There is a choice of three meals. School meals run on a three week menu cycle with the emphasis on healthy eating. The current menu is available to see by clicking here . Meals are pre-booked via School Gateway; instructions can be found here. Our cook can cater for special dietary needs on completion of the online Dietary Needs Form . School Meal Payment - £3.55 per meal The best way to pay for school meals is online via the School Gateway . Universal Infant Free School Meals Children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 are entitled to Universal Infant Free School Meals under current Government funding. Free School Meals If you receive certain benefits, your child may be entitled to Free School Meals (even if they are in EYFS or KS1) As well as Free School Meals, your child will have access to other benefits. For more information and to register, please click here . Children may bring a packed lunch from home - click here for healthy packed lunch ideas. We do not allow cans, glass bottles, fizzy drinks or sweets and remember we are a NUT FREE school. NUT FREE SCHOOL School Dinner Menu 24/25 Dietary Needs

A Parent Guide to the Wellbeing Support at South Hill School Meet the Team Everyone at South Hill School is committed to ensuring that every child and family is supported to have and maintain healthy wellbeing. The team above work together to focus on ensuring that the daily life for children and families is positive, both at school and at home. Read more about them over the page! Wellbeing for ALL At South Hill School, we take pride in the pastoral support we offer our pupils and families. We have a wellbeing team which focuses on supporting pupils’ personal development and welfare. Our wellbeing team signposts families to services they may need. Through our therapeutic approach to behaviour, we promote resilience and independence. We use the ‘Zones of Regulation’ across the school, which is a behaviour approach used to teach pupils to self-regulate their emotions and to take ownership over their behaviour. Our aim is to make sure we have happy pupils who are ready to learn. We very much believe that good wellbeing underpins good behaviour and good learning. It is therefore the centre of the ethos at South Hill. Mrs Donley Mrs Albery Mrs Evans Mr Braithwaite Miss Iroegbu Mrs Khan At South Hill we incorporate into our curriculum and extra-curricular activities many different ways to enhance wellbeing. Connect: PSHE curriculum, Clubs – Roxolid, stop and sit, mindfulness activities, friendship bench, Year 6 buddies, choir trips, singing assembly, international day, South Hill Festival Be Active: PE curriculum, sports clubs – Dance, Football, Multi Sports, Sports Festivals, Sports Day, teams, matches, daily mile, playtime activities – K2, smoky trail, basketball, football, multi activities, Go Noodle, Active maths Take Notice: Forest School, Eco team – litter pick, stop and sit, RSPB Birdwatch, science experiments, art week and art gallery Give: NSPCC number day, school ambassadors, visits to retirement homes, making cards, PTA gifts, eco team, litter pick Keep Learning: The whole school curriculum, clubs – first aid, maths, science, sports, arts, music, choir, rock steady band, offsite school visits, picture news assemblies, learning to play an instrument e.g. ukelele Our mental health and wellbeing team Mrs Donley, Senior Assistant Headteacher, is overall responsible for wellbeing and mental health support in the school. Mrs Donley ensures that individuals, groups and classes have access to the support they need, as well as being the SENCO and Safeguarding Lead in the school. Mrs Albery, as well as being Sparrows class teacher is the lead for wellbeing in the school and Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) Curriculum Leader. She has created a sensory garden, led mental health and wellbeing assemblies, led the school council, and continues to keep our pages on the school website up to date. Mrs Evans, as well as being a co-class teacher for Ash class, is our Forest School leader and mental health first aider. Mrs Evans has designed the Forest School curriculum and teaches all year groups throughout the year. On Thursday mornings, she takes small groups of children for additional forest school sessions, as an intervention to support self-esteem and confidence. Miss Iroegbu is our Pastoral Support Assistant and she assists parents to find support when needed and gives advice and practical help. Miss Iroegbu runs coffee mornings for parents / carers throughout the year – so do look out for these and come along to meet her when you can. Do ask for a meeting with Mis Iroegbu if there is anything that affects your day to day living and engagement in school. Carley Donaldson is our Gade Family Support Worker. She often works alongside Miss Iroegbu with all things family orientated. She will support families with Family First Assessments that helps identify different needs and works with families to make plans to address tricky situations. Families can self refer to Carley, who can be contacted directly through Gade Family Services Admin: 01442 278793 Our Mental Health Support Team Our team consists of trained staff who work with children with identified different levels of need. Mrs Donley, alongside teachers and parents/carers decides which adult might be best to work with individual children and the objectives of the work. All work with children is for time limited periods. If ongoing support is needed, the family or school may make a referral to the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Mr Brathwaite, more commonly known as Mr B, alongside his PE, sports and class cover role, has training as an Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA). Mr B works with a number of children during the week to support with emotions and resilience. He works with children who have suffered bereavement, suffer with anxiety or anger and at times carries out SMART moves interventions to support physical development. Mrs Khan is also a certified Play and Arts Therapist as well as being a qualified teacher who also works with children with Special Educational Needs. Mrs Khan works in school one day a week and uses a child-led therapy or counselling approach. Mrs Khan may also provide drawing and talking therapy for children and provide protective behaviours support. Julia Clift works with Gade Family Support and is our pupil support worker. We refer for Julia’s help for short pieces of work with children e.g. protective behaviours and anxiety tools. Alongside these incredible professionals we also, at times, make use of the school nursing service. If you would like to know and see more of what we provide at South Hill School please take a look at our website: Wellbeing page for parents: https://www.southhill.herts.sch.uk/wellbeing Wellbeing page for pupils: https://www.southhill.herts.sch.uk/wellbeing-for-children

Sciences humaines et apprentissage extérieur Geography Vision To develop pupils’ geographical skills, knowledge and enquiry and for pupils' to understand the similarities and differences between localities, both locally and in the wider world, and the affect this has on the humans that live there. Ici, à l'école primaire de South Hill, nous aimons faire un voyage dans le passé ou explorer le monde qui nous entoure. Voici quelques-unes des choses passionnantes auxquelles nous avons participé: 1/7 Our Curriculum We have tailored our Geography curriculum, in some areas, to reflect our locality and local community so that our pupils have a real sense of the geography of our town, Hemel Hempstead. For example: In EYFS, we focus on the building blocks to our Geography by beginning to study the natural world around us, including our local area In Year 1, we compare our town to a local village and study the similarities and differences In Year 2, we compare our town to a coastal town and study the similarities and differences In Year 3, we compare our town (which was traditionally a waterway) to Venice In Year 4, we study Hemel Hempstead through local environmental issues and think about the impact we can have In Year 5, we focus on fieldwork to collect information and map the land use of our town In Year 6, we continue our fieldwork and local area study by looking at Ordnance survey maps Long Term Plan Subject Overview Examples of knowledge organisers EYFS Year 4 Year 2 Year 6 Trips, hooks and theme days Our Geography curriculum is enriched by a number of school trips, theme days and assemblies and these provide excellent opportunities to bring our geographical learning to life. Examples are: EYFS: Local walk, including an introduction to maps Year 2: Local walk to think about what we like and dislike about our town and how we could improve it Year 3: Visit from ‘One Day Creative’ to study Volcanoes Year 4: Local walk to think about local environmental issues and how we can impact these Year 5: Local walk to study our local river, ‘The River Gade’ Year 6: Local walk to use Ordnance survey maps and to collect data and information about our town International Day (please see the ‘International Day’ section of our website Each year at South Hill School, we celebrate 'International Day'. Each class chooses a country from around the world which is also representative of our South Hill communities. For that day, year groups represent and learn more about their chosen country and can wear clothes from their celebrated country or colours of the flag. Puplis learn about the geography of their chosen country and where to locate the country on a map, what continent the country is part of and what countries are nearby, we might learn about famous buildings and landmarks. Pupil Voice I like geography because we look at maps and we have used the globe to find where we live. It was fun - Ciel Year 1 I liked the walk around our local area to look at where we live - Helena Year 1 I like geography because we learn about the different countries around the world, we learnt about Barbados - Enal Year 2 I like learning about where I live and how I can keep looking after my local area. I enjoyed comparing Hemel Hempstead to a village near to where I live - Freddie Year 5

KS2 Carol Service at St Johns Church Each year KS2 visit St John's Church for our carol service.it is a lovely occasion which gets us in the festive mood with our choir singing beautifully and hearing some soloists too. Parents and carers are invited and fill the church which makes this event one of the most popular in the school calendar. 'T he singing and the readings were lovely; the children all showed the school at its best. The atmosphere was truly festive'. Chair of Governors Some Year 3 pupils said: I liked singing in the church. It made me feel happy. I felt excited...the lights on the trees were lovely. I liked it when Jacob sang the solo. I liked Year 5 Silver Birch Jingle Bells song. I felt musical and excited. I enjoyed singing with choir.

Remembrance Day at South Hill School Each year at South Hill School, we commemorate Remembrance day. We gather outside as a whole school community and Year 6 share poems inspired by the poem, 'In Flanders Field,' by John McCrae. Our South Hill School Choir sing a song dedicated to those who have fallen. We have a whole school homework project such as 'Jar decorating.' A pupil plays, 'The Last post' and leads us into a two minute silence. The eldest and youngest members of the school then join the Headteacher in placing poppy wreaths under our South Hill Flagpole. We then sing the National Anthem. It is a very special moment in memory of those who have lost their lives in war across the world.

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin Creative arts are really important to us here at South Hill, and this term saw Year 3 and 4 take to the stage in their amazing production of ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. 120 pupils took part in the production, with children from Year 4 auditioning for and taking on the principle roles. The show was performed to the whole school, as well as a matinee and packed out evening performance to parents, carers and family members. One of our parents who attended the show said: I just wanted to say how absolutely amazing the school play was! The children were fantastic, and it was honestly the best thing I've ever come to see. The teachers have clearly worked extremely hard putting this together as was evidenced by the performance last night and I am sure by all of the other performances. Well done to the teachers and to the children, it was such a pleasure to watch! Year 4 parent We are incredibly proud of the outstanding efforts of all of our children; the show was incredible and really highlighted our pupil’s talents in dance, drama and singing. We can’t wait for the next show, by Year 6, in the Summer term!

South Hill Primary School is committed to their Public Sector Equality Duty and the need to Eliminate discrimination Advance equality of opportunity Foster good relations We have produced our Equality Policy to share our equality information and this, along with our accessibility plan will be reviewed in a timely manner. In addition, we have our four year objectives, which form part of our Equality Policy. Voici nos politiques actuelles: A Plan d'accessibilité Contre le harcèlement Présence B Comportement Behaviour C Charge et remissions Mélange de classe Protection de l'enfance Enfants pris en charge Culte collectif Les communications Réclamations D Protection des données Dropping Off Procedure E Égalité Equality Objectives 2022 -2026 F Politique de rétroaction G Apprentissage à domicile L Lettres M Mental Health and Wellbeing Medical Conditions O Sécurité en ligne O P P Avis de confidentialité Parent / tuteur Schéma de publication R Relationships & Sex Education S SEND et inclusion Réclamations en série T Enseignement et apprentissage U Enseignement et apprentissage

La science À l'école South Hill, nous comprenons que les enfants sont naturellement curieux et aiment explorer, enquêter et poser des questions. Ceci est essentiel à l'apprentissage des sciences et permet aux enfants d'acquérir une compréhension plus profonde du monde dans lequel nous vivons. Nous visons à fournir une éducation scientifique de qualité qui fournit les bases de la compréhension du monde et crée des apprenants curieux et enthousiastes. Nous encourageons l'enseignement de la science à travers des tâches pratiques et, le cas échéant, l'utilisation de nos vastes terrains d'école, la localité de notre ville ou The Box Moor Trust. Grâce à la science dans notre école, nous visons à faire en sorte que tous les enfants: Développer des connaissances et une compréhension scientifiques ainsi que des compétences d'apprentissage pratiques amusantes Développer la compréhension des différents types d'enquête scientifique qui les aideront à répondre à des questions scientifiques sur le monde qui les entoure Liez l'apprentissage à la vie réelle et explorez grâce à l'apprentissage en plein air Accédez à un voyage scientifique dans tous les groupes de l'année Lier l'apprentissage des sciences à toutes les autres matières afin d'approfondir la compréhension Le programme d'études primaire en sciences est enseigné dans toute l'école. Travailler les connaissances scientifiques et scientifiques Travailler scientifiquement (ou compétences d'investigation) se concentre sur une compréhension de l'investigation pratique et les compétences nécessaires pour le faire. Ces compétences comprennent l'observation, la recherche, la classification, la pose et la réponse à des questions, l'exploration de données et le travail en équipe grâce à un apprentissage pratique. La connaissance scientifique est la compréhension des faits et phénomènes scientifiques et la réponse aux questions sur leur apprentissage scientifique. EYFS Les élèves explorent la science via l'espace d'apprentissage appelé «Comprendre le monde». Ils assistent également à une session en plein air appelée «Welly Wednesday». Science clé de l'étape 1 L’objectif de l’enseignement des sciences à l’étape clé 1 est de permettre aux enfants d’expérimenter et d’observer les phénomènes; regarder de plus près le monde qui les entoure. Science clé de l'étape 2 L'objectif de l'enseignement des sciences au niveau clé inférieur 2 est de permettre aux enfants d'élargir leur vision scientifique du monde qui les entoure. L'objectif de l'enseignement des sciences au stade clé supérieur 2 est de permettre aux enfants de développer une compréhension plus profonde d'un large éventail d'idées scientifiques. Liens locaux scientifiques Nous encourageons et célébrons fortement l'apprentissage des sciences dans notre école. Nous travaillons en collaboration avec The Box Moor Trust, un site d'allotissement local, le cimetière Heath Lane, l'école Lockers Park, l'école Hemel Hempstead et nos propres terrains pour garantir que l'apprentissage des sciences est proactif et significatif. Examples of Knowledge Organisers EYFS Year 1 Year 3 Year 5 Long Term Plan Subject Overview Semaine scientifique britannique Chaque année, nous célébrons la British Science Week en organisant une journée de la science au cours de laquelle les élèves ont une journée d'apprentissage scientifique amusant en menant des expériences pratiques et des enquêtes. 1/4 Parc des casiers En 6e année, profitez d'un après-midi scientifique et technologique au Lockers Park. Cela soutient leur transition vers l'école secondaire à mesure qu'ils apprennent dans un laboratoire scientifique. BBC Bitesize Key Stage 1 - activités amusantes pour aider les enfants de KS1 à en savoir plus sur la science BBC Bitesize Key Stage 2 - activités amusantes pour aider les enfants de KS2 à en savoir plus sur la science

Admissions Pour plus d'informations sur l'admission à l'école primaire de South Hill, vous devrez contacter le conseil du comté de Hertfordshire pour connaître les modalités d'admission de l'école. Veuillez consulter le lien ci-dessous: Informations sur les admissions Our Pupil Admission Number is 60. We endeavour under the terms of Hertfordshire’s Local Education Authority’s admission policy to accommodate children from within our local area wherever possible. Hertfordshire Local Authority is responsible for the allocation of places in schools for children of primary school age. Children join our Reception class in the September before their fifith birthday. If you would like to apply for a place outside the normal admission times then click HERE which will take you to Hertfordshire County Council In Year Admission applications. Arrangements for the admission of pupils with disabilities In order that children who have a disability may be catered for, the school seeks advice from the Local Authority regarding the admission of such pupils. The school will endeavour to make any necessary arrangements in full consultation with the parents and any other agencies involved. It may be necessary in some cases for specialised equipment to be purchased, support staff to be employed, and minor adaptations to be made to buildings and furniture. These will need to be done in consultation with the Local Authority, and may take some time to implement. Steps to prevent disabled pupils being treated less favourably than other pupils The school’s Accessibility Plan (found HERE ) sets out the Governors’ response to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 which requires that a pupil should not be treated less favourably because of a disability. Existing facilities to assist access to the school by pupils with disabilities Accessible toilets are available on the ground and lower ground floors. Wheelchair access is available to the building on the ground and lower ground floors Elevator in the KS2 building from lower ground to 1st floor. Elevator from lower ground floor to the playground. Playgrounds are accessible by slopes