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Local MP Polly Billington Joins Drapers Mills Pupils to Champion Road Safety Campaign. Polly Billington, Member of Parliament for East Thanet, visited Drapers Mills recently to meet with the school’s safeguarding ambassadors as part of their renewed push for road safety awareness in the local community. Drapers Mills Primary Academy was the first school in Kent to launch a School Streets scheme in 2020. By temporarily restricting motorised traffic outside the school during drop-off and pick-up times the school hopes to create a safer, healthier and happier environment. Currently the school facilitates the School Streets zone with moveable barriers on St Peter’s footpath to reduce pollution, congestion and improve road safety. Over the last 5 years, running the scheme daily has become increasingly difficult for the school. With the help of Kent County Council’s School Streets team the staff and children of Drapers Mills have been working together to solve the problem and believe a camera enforcement (ANPR) scheme could be the solution. During Polly’s visit, the children shared a presentation highlighting their concerns regarding the current school streets scheme, measures the school has already tried and the desire to move towards a more sustainable camera enforced scheme. Polly in turn spoke to the children about the importance of local voices campaigning for improvements in the area and commended their drive and community spirit, together the group came up with achievable next steps for the school's campaign. Polly said: “It was great to meet the safeguarding ambassadors and hear about their concerns for the road safety at the school and how it impacts their community. The young people have built their campaign with the support of the school and after their detailed presentation to me, I will be writing to KCC in support and speaking to my colleagues at Thanet District Council to also support the efforts.” With the children back in class Polly took a tour of the school with Headteacher Hannah Taylor, who said, "We are grateful to Polly for visiting us and, most importantly, for listening to our pupils. Road safety is a top priority for our school community, and having the support of our local MP is a huge boost to our efforts to make St Peters Footpath safer for our children."
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🔴 Red Nose Day – Tomorrow - Friday 20th March 🔴 We’re excited to let you know that our school will be supporting Red Nose Day on Friday 20th March! Pupils are invited to come to school dressed in red to help us celebrate and raise money for a wonderful cause. ❤️ We kindly suggest a £1 donation, which will go to Comic Relief. The money raised helps support people facing poverty, hardship, and social injustice both here in the UK and around the world. Let’s come together as a school community to make a difference while having lots of fun along the way! Thank you for your continued support 🌟
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🔴 Red Nose Day – Friday 20th March 🔴 We’re excited to let you know that our school will be supporting Red Nose Day on Friday 20th March! Pupils are invited to come to school dressed in red to help us celebrate and raise money for a wonderful cause. ❤️ We kindly suggest a £1 donation, which will go to Comic Relief. The money raised helps support people facing poverty, hardship, and social injustice both here in the UK and around the world. Let’s come together as a school community to make a difference while having lots of fun along the way! Thank you for your continued support 🌟
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Drapers Mills achieved an incredible 2nd place finish at a Handball competition in Term 3! Over the space of 2 weeks, facing 16 teams, through lots of qualifying rounds and the finals, our incredible handballers eventually finished runners up in the area. The children played with incredible skill and discipline and improved continually throughout the tournament. Huge congratulations to the team, everyone at Drapers is very proud of you. 🤩
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🔴 Red Nose Day – Friday 20th March 🔴 We’re excited to let you know that our school will be supporting Red Nose Day on Friday 20th March! Pupils are invited to come to school dressed in red to help us celebrate and raise money for a wonderful cause. ❤️ We kindly suggest a £1 donation, which will go to Comic Relief. The money raised helps support people facing poverty, hardship, and social injustice both here in the UK and around the world. Let’s come together as a school community to make a difference while having lots of fun along the way! Thank you for your continued support 🌟
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Our friends of Drapers group are always looking for donations. 🪁Toys in good condition 📚Children's books 🧩Games and puzzles 🖍️Colouring books and stationary 👚Clean children's clothes and shoes in good condition 🎉Party/ event decorations Thank you in advance for any donations, these can be bought to the main office.
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Drapers Mills were given the opportunity to take 2 teams to a Pickleball masterclass recently. The children, from year 4 and 5, went to Ursuline to try their hand at a new sport. Everyone represented our school amazingly, demonstrating our school values of ambition, respect and kindness throughout. Mr Hearn was very proud of you, as always. 😊
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Andrew from Action Your Potential is leading a powerful, helpful workshop on Thursday 26 March at 7:30pm. It is called "Keep Calm and Carry On," and is about how we help our children build resilience and bounce back from setbacks. Click the Zoom link below to sign up. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o29vZD0yQ_apKUoD_0RS-w#/registration For any questions, email Andrew at andrewwright@aypuk.com, children are welcome to attend the webinar too.
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A huge congratulations to our girls football team, who recently competed in a regional football competition against other local TKAT schools. Over the course of 4 matches the team only conceded 3 goals, scoring 6 in return! They ultimately won 3 matches, resulting in them winning the regional heats and the incredible opportunity to represent the Thanet TKAT schools in the finals which will be hosted at Leyton Orient in May. Well done Girls! 🤩
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