FAQs
We know that you probably have many questions for us, so to answer as many as we can here are some frequently asked questions.
I’ve applied what happens next?
In April The Local Authority will email you with the offer of a place. If you have made it onto our list, we will be in contact with you straight away to send you a school registration form and hopefully invite you to look round the school.
Is there wrap-around care available?
We offer both breakfast club and after school club child care from 7.30 am until 5.45pm five days per week. This is available for children in Reception to Year 6 (it is not currently available for nursery children). Childcare is run by our own staff and is based in our new extension with easy access from the Field Drive gateway. Places can be booked once you have completed a school registration form, following your formal offer in April.
How do I book wrap-around care?
Along with your school registration form sent out in the week beginning 27th April, we will also send a wrap-around care booking form for you to complete and return to us by post.
How can I access the school grounds from Street Lane/Talbot Ave?
Following on from all of our building extension work, we will have an additional new point of pedestrian access to school from the footpath in Allerton Grange Fields.
Are there nursery places available for my younger child?
We do have an excellent 26 place pre-school nursery on site. There are a limited number of spaces for September. The pre-school nursery is an educational facility to provide children with essential preparation for school. You can see detailed information about our nursery provision and how we organise learning through play on our website.
However, we cannot provide hot meals and sleep facilities so it is not suitable as a full day child care provision. Most 3-year olds stay 3 hours per day. Some of our older N2 children, in their year before school, stay some full days each week, 8.30-3.30pm, where parents/carers need flexible provision. There is no wrap-around care for nursery children at school outside of these hours.
If you are interested in finding out more about whether your child could have a place, please email office@moorallertonhall.leeds.sch.uk
If I drive to school to drop my child off where can I park?
Parents/carers do not have access to the school car park. This is only for staff and official visitors. There is parking on the road both on and around Lidgett Lane. The Brackenwood Community centre have kindly said we can use their car park at pick up and drop off times. However, both of these options are usually very congested. We recommend walking, cycling or scooting to school. If this is not possible, we do have an Allerton Grange Fields Entrance Lidgett Lane entrance park and stride agreement with St Edmunds Church for families to use their car park at the beginning and end of school.
How do higher ability children do at Moor Allerton Hall?
Our higher ability children do well in national comparisons and better in reading and maths than their higher ability peers.
See below for more details:
The latest data we have is from 2019 as there were no assessments in the summer of 2020.
This is the data table which compares the outcomes for our Year 6 children previously identified in Year 2 as higher ability with their Year 6 peers across the country also identified as higher ability in the same way. It includes our higher ability children who had English as an additional language (EAL).
The first column shows the standardised progress made between Year 2 and Year 6. The national average is a 0 score. Our children made better than average progress in Reading and Maths but are slightly below in Writing at the moment. This is a harder skill to achieve for our EAL children as it requires writing at an extremely high standard with authorial intent and complex grammatical structures over a range of genres in a coherent way.
The middle columns of the table show the achievement of the children in the assessments. They show all our higher ability children achieve the national expected standard (including in writing) and more than the national average achieve the higher standard, Greater Depth, in Reading and Maths.
The final column shows the average scaled score for the test results in English and Maths – again showing our children have a higher than average score in the tests. There is no scaled score for writing as this is teacher assessed across the year, rather than tested in SATS week.
How do your results compare with other local schools?
Our children's average scores when they start school are below the national average because we have a mixed cohort which includes higher than average numbers of children with Special needs and English as an Additional language (NB we are proud of our inclusive nature and do not see this as a disadvantage)
We do well in catching up the children who were behind expectation, by the time they reach Year 6
See below for more details:
If you look at our data for the starting points across the whole year group you can see our children have lower starting points than the national average. This is due to a range of factors including a higher percentage than the national and local averages of children who have English as an additional language, a higher percentage of Special Educational Needs and a proportion of children who have disadvantaged backgrounds. These children are all counted into the data. We are proud to have such an inclusive school and do not see this as a disadvantage.
Where do our children start in reception?
The national expectation at the end of reception year is an assessment level called ‘Good Level of Development (GLD). Those who are scoring significantly above this are said to be ‘Exceeding’. The data for the last few years shows that although cohorts vary, our children start school significantly below national average. We are then working hard with them to fill gaps and help them catch up by the time they leave us at Year 6.
Where do they end up in Year 6?
The following table shows how well all children have caught up by the time they leave us in Year 6. (Again, this data includes all our EAL and SEN children). It shows both the percentage who reached Expected Standard and those who reached the higher level, Greater Depth.
Depending on their scores at the midpoint assessments in Year 2, each child is set an ambitious target (FFT target) in each subject for Year 6. These targets expect children to close the gap on national expectation. You can see how close the year group are to their target in 2019 below. Where it is shaded bright green, the children have met or exceeded their target. You can also see where we are closing on national average.
Children at Moor Allerton do well in closing gaps identified upon entry. Higher ability children do better than their higher ability peers nationally in reading and maths.
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