Picture News At South Hill School, we utilise the Picture News of our PSHE lessons in Spring 1 and 2. In our first assembly of the week on a Monday morning, the pupils are introduced to the topic they will be following in 'Picture News' for their PSHE lessons. This week, we discovered that in 2025, pupils will be allowed to study British sign language as a GCSE. We thought about this key question; 'Should we learn sign language at school?' Sign Language in School Picture News for Parents So how can Picture News support our pupil’s understanding of PSHE? Picture News is a fantastic resource to help our school teach pupils about current affairs and what’s happening in the world by using real life learning. This facilitates them to develop respect for others whilst incorporating the technique of reflection. Furthermore, it allows pupils to learn about themselves and what interests them. This can then sparks their own imaginations, passions and what they want to change or act upon by voicing opinions and feelings about the topic. There are a number of related resources to facilitate this process such as; useful vocabulary, British Values, Protective Characteristics and on some occasions (if topic specific) the UN Convention of the Rights of the Pupils (UNCRC, 1989). Picture News Spring 2025 Picture News Pupil Voice

The South Hill Way At South Hill, we follow 'The South Hill Way', which forms part of our behaviour policy (following the Steps therapeutic behaviour approach). The 'SHW' is an important part of this and promotes our school values, 'The 4 R's'. These are linked to 'British Values' and underpin what it means to be both a pupil and an adult at South Hill. Theo in Year 3 says, “The South Hill Way are our 4 main school rules. They keep everyone safe and mean everyone is the same.” Ada in Year 1 says, “The South Hill Way helps us know what to do and means everyone is happy.” We want every pupil and every adult to embrace and display these values so that everyone can learn and achieve at our school because 'it's the South Hill Way.'

Modern Foreign Language - French “Languages are an essential part of a broad, balanced curriculum. Not only do they provide an opportunity to communicate more effectively with others, they also help children to understand what it is to be a global citizen. This includes the importance of tolerance and understanding, which is crucial knowledge in today’s world.” At South Hill, French is taught as a Modern Foreign Language (MFL) in Key stage two. Pupils in Early Years and Key Stage One learn and develop skills, which will support and benefit their future language learning. These include: Communication and language Phonics Reading Grammar Vocabulary Knowledge of different cultures and societies Our Curriculum In KS2, French is taught using the ‘Language Angels’ scheme of work. Teaching units have been selected in order to build a wide range of vocabulary and enable progression in our ‘Golden Threads’, which are: LISTENING SPEAKING READING WRITING In the Autumn term, each year group starts with phonetics and pronunciation lessons which teach some of the key sounds in French. Pupils also spend time learning and using some ‘essential vocabulary’ including greetings, numbers and days of the week etc. Pupils then continue developing their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills through a variety of topics throughout the year. To ensure learning is enjoyable and memorable, lessons often use stories, songs, role play and a variety of other activities to support pupils to learn, remember and apply French vocabulary. Celebrating languages Within our school, we have pupils that speak many different languages. We aim to celebrate this through whole school events such as ‘International Day’ and ‘International Languages Day’ where each year group selects a country to learn about and to take part in a dance as well as many other activities. We also celebrate languages that are in school by dressing in colours of a chosen nationality and sharing languages, customs and traditions with our friends. 1/5 Long Term Plan Subject Overview Essential Vocab

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Mathématiques À l'école primaire de South Hill, nous visons à offrir un programme de mathématiques large et engageant, étayé par l'utilisation d'approches concrètes, picturales et abstraites (CPA) pour construire et intégrer l'apprentissage. Nos apprenants sont confrontés à des tâches qui développent et approfondissent leur compréhension conceptuelle des mathématiques, ainsi que la promotion de la fluidité et de la maîtrise des sujets que nous couvrons. De nombreuses ressources sont disponibles dans toutes les salles de classe pour aider à soutenir et encourager les enfants à apprendre par petites étapes gérables avec les points clés de compréhension au cœur de leur apprentissage. Chaque classe a son propre «mur de travail» dans lequel l'apprentissage actuel est affiché comme un outil d'orientation et de soutien. Le travail des enfants est présenté ici comme un rappel de ce qu'ils ont accompli. Le pré-apprentissage peut également être présenté pour promouvoir une bonne discussion et intégrer de nouvelles idées. Subject Overview Calculation Policy Long Term Plans EYFS Year 1 Year 4 Year 2 Year 5 Year 3 Year 6 Tables des temps Rockstars Maths Open Morning 1 Maths Open Morning 2 Maths at Home Use the buttons below to see what each year learns in Maths lessons. Année 1 Année 2 3e année 4e année 5e année Année 6 Pupil Voice 'If you're stuck there's always something to help you work it out' - Niamh Year 6 'I love it when division goes into decimals' - Rahul Year 6 'It's exciting learning new methods in maths' - Merryn Year 5

À l'école primaire de South Hill, nous promouvons une politique de porte ouverte; N'hésitez pas à parler à l'enseignant de la classe de votre enfant ou à un membre de l'équipe de haute direction. Liste du personnel Subject Leaders Communication Protocol

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School Travel Plan Our School Travel Plan at South Hill Primary School aims to encourage a healthy lifestyle and positive well-being for all. We work closely with Herts Travel Team and we currently hold a “Good” Award for our Travel Plan. Some of the aims of the School Travel Plan include: Improved safety of pupils due to less traffic. Less congestion around the school and in the local community. Healthier, happier, more alert pupils, thanks to active travel such as, cycling and walking. Avoiding parking issues around the school ground Less pollution around the school and local area. Improved road awareness of pupils. Greater staff health and well-being. Improved journey reliability for staff, pupils and parents. As a school, we actively promote walking, using a scooter, park and ride or cycling as a way of getting to school each day. Additionally, during our Walk to School Week we again encourage and record how children get to school each day that week. This is a great opportunity to help children reach their minimum 60 minutes of exercise per day. At South Hill, we ask that no cars enter the school car park during drop off and collection. Parking is very restricted around the immediate school site. Please be considerate to our local residents if parking nearby to the school or consider parking and walking. Within the school grounds, we also have a scooter station to keep bikes and scooter dry from the weather! Tom, our school crossing officer regularly visits school Tom sends the following message to keep your children safe. 1) A reminder to stay on the footpath until Tom call you to cross, do not cross before. 2) Any children who bring bikes and scooters must get off and push them across the road. 3) Parents, for the safety of all PLEASE DO NOT PARK ON YELLOW LINES or close to the crossing patrol area. We thank Tom very much for helping to keep our pupils safe

4e année 1/9 Knowledge Organisers - Summer Knowledge Organisers - Spring Knowledge Organisers - Autumn Year 4 Multiplication Check Yearly Overview Textes recommandés Bienvenue en 4e année! C'est fantastique de voir que les enfants sont bien installés après une si longue absence. Une année entière d'apprentissage passionnant nous attend. Nous en apprendrons davantage sur les Romains et visiterons le musée Verulamium à St Albans. Notre programme créatif comprendra la fabrication de nos propres pots et mosaïques romains à l'automne. Les enfants exploreront l'électricité et apprendront à construire des circuits électriques simples et à faire des observations scientifiques. Maple est enseignée par Mme Farmery et Mme Sisulu et les enfants sont pris en charge par Mme Nash. Holly est enseignée par Mme Tomsa et les enfants sont pris en charge par Mme Conroy. Les liens sur cette page vous donneront des informations sur ce que nous ferons ce terme. Mme Farmery, Mme Sisulu et Mme Tomsa Transistion Booklet 2025 - Maple Transistion Booklet 2025 - Holly Année 4 anglais Maths 4e année KS2 Reading VIPERS Y3/Y4 Tricky Word List

No Mobile Phone Zone Conseil d'école Bonjour! Nous sommes la voix étudiante de l'école primaire de South Hill. Le conseil d'école est composé de deux enfants de chaque classe qui ont été élus par leurs pairs. Chaque candidat souhaitant représenter sa classe doit faire un bref exposé sur ses points de vue et ses objectifs pour le conseil d'école et les enfants votent ensuite pour les candidats de la classe qu'ils préfèrent. Membres du conseil d'école 2020-2021 Année 6 - Costy & Rory / Joely & Jack Année 5 - Fraser & Gloria / Ava & Alfie S Année 4 - Taylor & Oscar / Beau S & Riley Année 3 - Izzy & Sam / Lillie & Zubin Année 2 - Eva & Oliver / Saraya & Frankie Année 1 - Emilia & Thomas / Bertie & Amelia Conseil d'école Bonjour! Nous sommes la voix étudiante de l'école primaire de South Hill. Le conseil d'école est composé de deux enfants de chaque classe qui ont été élus par leurs pairs. Chaque candidat souhaitant représenter sa classe doit faire un bref exposé sur ses points de vue et ses objectifs pour le conseil d'école et les enfants votent ensuite pour les candidats de la classe qu'ils préfèrent. Membres du conseil d'école 2020-2021 Année 6 - Costy & Rory / Joely & Jack Année 5 - Fraser & Gloria / Ava & Alfie S Année 4 - Taylor & Oscar / Beau S & Riley Année 3 - Izzy & Sam / Lillie & Zubin Année 2 - Eva & Oliver / Saraya & Frankie Année 1 - Emilia & Thomas / Bertie & Amelia Pupil Voice Child 1 – I like being the School Council because I care about my school. Child 2 – Year 5: I enjoy being in the School Council because it allows me to share my ideas. Child 3 – Year 5: This year our School Council has helped us all to explore the value of respect, and it has improved our school. Child 6 – Year 5: This year I got to experience meeting our local MP and share all our hard work, I really enjoyed that. Child 4 – Year 6: This weekend the School Council will be doing a litter pick with the ECO Warriors. This shows we are showing respect to our local community. Child 5 – Year 6: Our School Council makes sure that everybody has an opportunity to speak up and have a voice.

Safeguarding in the Curriculum at South Hill School Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do here at South Hill School. Great importance is placed on identifying opportunities in the taught curriculum for children to learn about safeguarding. Our broad curriculum gives pupils opportunities to experience life in all its diversity, to acquire knowledge, understanding, and skills that significantly impact personal development, behaviour, and welfare. It also equips our pupils with the knowledge and skills required for personal safeguarding. Our PSHE curriculum covers aspects of safeguarding which are appropriate to the child’s age. We are sensitive in our teaching and recognise that some more sensitive subjects need to be taught at an age-appropriate level, or at a small group or 1:1 level where a more urgent need arises. We plan to constantly challenge children to think deeply about their own personal physical and mental wellbeing. We value pupils’ questions and give them space for their own thoughts, ideas, and concerns. We give pupils’ opportunities across the curriculum to explore values, personal rights, responsibilities, and equal opportunities that develop moral concepts that impact positively on safeguarding, promote British values and prevent radicalisation and extremism. Safeguarding through the curriculum is more heavily planned within the following subjects: PSHE (No Outsiders, Picture News, The Christopher Winter Project (RSE and Drugs) Religious Education Science Computing/Online Safety lessons through Project Evolve EYFS - Personal, Social and Emotional Development Zones of Regulation Further safeguarding opportunities are continually planned into the curriculum. For example: Road safety Nurture Class Nurture Club Bikeability in Year 5 Poolside and water safety through swimming lessons in year 4 and 6 Fire awareness in Year 2 (including visits from the local fire service) Assemblies and workshops provided by NSPCC Y6 Transitions Plays and shows (building confidence) Be Smart online safety poster Online safety (targeted work as required) NSPCC PANTS work (targeted work as required) Protective Behaviours (targeted work as required) Anti-bullying week Wellbeing week Wellbeing festival Just Talk Week/Worry box assembly Religious festival assemblies Online Safety Day Black History week International Day We have developed an open and safe learning environment in which pupils express their views, seek help, and help others. The promotion of equality of opportunity and diversity, for pupils and staff, helps prevent any form of direct or indirect discriminatory behaviour. Our children learn to not tolerate any prejudiced behaviour. Our behaviour policy promotes making good choices and exhibiting good learning behaviours. Class times are a time for sharing ideas, addressing concerns, and promoting important values. Assembly time is used to promote safeguarding matters and explore themes. For example, we talk about anti-bullying, including cyber bullying and British values, including how these values are promoted in our multi–faith society. Staff and children are quick to challenge stereotypes and the use of derogatory language. Our school teaches the diversity of experiences and provides pupils with a comprehensive understanding of people and communities beyond their immediate experience through the use of the ‘no outsiders’ project. Throughout the curriculum, there are planned opportunities to promote all forms of equality and foster greater understanding of and respect for people of all faiths (and those with no faith), races, genders, ages, disabilities, and sexual orientations. Time is taken at the beginning of every new school year and through regular assemblies to reaffirm school values, expectations, and the ‘South Hill Way’.

Gouverneurs à South Hill Nous sommes très chanceux à la South Hill School, d'avoir un conseil d'administration solidaire et attentionné. Leur rôle au sein de l'école est de s'assurer que les enfants reçoivent la meilleure éducation possible et que les normes soient aussi élevées que possible, en: assurer la clarté de la vision, de l'éthique et de l'orientation stratégique tenir le chef d'établissement responsable de la performance éducative de l'école et de ses élèves superviser la performance financière de l'école et s'assurer que son argent est bien dépensé Le Conseil d’administration se compose de représentants des parents, du personnel, du Conseil du comté du Hertfordshire et de membres cooptés par le Conseil d’administration qui possèdent les compétences requises pour contribuer à la gouvernance efficace et au succès de l’école. Le Conseil d'administration se réunit actuellement quatre fois par an (dont au moins une par mandat). Nos gouverneurs (au 1er décembre 2020) M. Hans Peters Président des gouverneurs Gouverneur coopté Fin du mandat: 07 décembre 2021 Mlle Joanne Wellbelove Co-directeur - Membre de droit du Conseil d'administration Mlle Leah Wren Co-directeur; Gouverneur coopté Fin du mandat: 06 février 2024 Mme Gail May Gouverneur coopté Fin du mandat: 02 octobre 2021 Mme Bonnie O'Dell Gouverneur parent Élu par les parents Fin du mandat: 17 septembre 2021 Mme Claire Peters Gouverneur parent Nommé par le Conseil d'administration Fin du mandat: 05 octobre 2024 Mme Katie Stewart Gouverneur parent Nommé par le Conseil d'administration Fin du mandat: 02 octobre 2021 M. Simon Crawshaw Gouverneur des autorités locales Nommé par le Conseil d'administration et le HCC Fin du mandat: 24 mars 2023 Mme Kim Albery Gouverneur d'état-major Fin du mandat: 08 juillet 2023 Mme Kate Chafer Gouverneur coopté Fin du mandat: 09 septembre 2023 Mme Hayley Yendel Gouverneur coopté Fin du mandat: 30 novembre 2024 South Hill est une école dynamique offrant un programme créatif dans un environnement exceptionnel. Nous avons la chance d'avoir une équipe d'employés brillants et dévoués qui servent tous notre école avec engagement, patience et positivité. C'est grâce à eux que nos enfants sont heureux, soignés et apprennent. " M. Hans Peters - Président des gouverneurs Rencontrez les enseignants Présence du gouverneur