Our dedication to resilience and emotional wellbeing is award winning!

Good Attendance gives children every opportunity to influence their future quality of life and reach their full potential.

Welcome to Drapers Mills Primary Academy

I offer you a warm welcome, along with all staff, governors and fellow pupils to Drapers Mills Primary Academy. At Drapers Mills, we know the crucial role school plays in a child's life and we will give every pupil the opportunities they deserve.

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Attendance

At Drapers Mills Primary Academy we expect good attendance and punctuality.

Good Attendance gives children every opportunity to influence their future quality of life and reach their full potential.

Curriculum Overview

We have a bespoke curriculum at Drapers Mills Primary Academy.

We believe our curriculum allows children to shape their futures by developing resilience, respect, as well as, understanding themselves as individuals and encouraging them to aspire to achieve.

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Congratulations to this week's stars of the week! Nest - Lilly and Arthur Palm Bay - Kourtney Louisa - Oliver Epple - Danaya Stone - Lydia West Bay - Dexter Viking Bay - Dominik 🤩

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Information from RAF Manston History Museum in Manston.

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🗓️ Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.30 📍Margate Salvation Army, Margate Citadel, Union Cres, Margate CT9 1NS

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Breakfast club had a busy week last week. The children had an animal themed week, they made birds out of toilet roll inserts, and variety of other animals using paper plates and other craft materials. They rounded the week off by decorating biscuits. 😊

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Congratulations to our stars of the week! ⭐ Nest- Christopher St Mildreds- Mia O West Bay - Mohammad Palm Bay- Fabio Viking Bay - Poppy Louisa bay - Elliott Joss bay- Nevaeh-Faith Walpole bay- Nojus Botany bay- Melissa O Epple bay- Tilly

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Well done to this week's class attendance winners Stone Bay, who are well on their way to winning the end of term treat! 🤩

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We’re so proud of some of our Year 6 pupils who recently took part in Bikeability training, successfully achieving Level 1 and Level 2. ⭐ The children worked incredibly hard to develop their cycling skills, confidence, and road safety awareness – a fantastic achievement and an important life skill. 🚴‍♀️ A huge thank you to The Canterbury Bike People The Canterbury Bike Project for kindly lending us bikes and helping to make this opportunity possible. 🚴 Well done, Year 6 – you should be very proud of yourselves!

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Happening tomorrow evening at Pie Factory in Ramsgate. Connect with Respect is a community wellbeing project in Thanet for girls aged 7 to 18 which aims to strengthen wellbeing, nurture kindness and empower girls to trust their bodies, voices and choices.

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Please see below for information on workshops being delivered by the Emotional Wellbeing/Support Team during terms 3 & 4. More information on each of these workshops, and links to register, can be found on our letters sent home page of the website- use the filter box to look for 'parent workshops' https://www.drapersmills-tkat.org/parents/letters-home

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Congratulations to our stars of the week! ✨ The Nest - Sham West Bay - Oakley Palm Bay - Payton Louisa Bay - Julia Viking Bay - Nidus Joss Bay - Samuel Botany Bay- Amelia S Walpole Bay- Estera B Epple Bay - Lilly Stone Bay- Daisy J

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The Children's Commissioner has recently published A Guide For Parents On Managing Children’s Digital Lives. This useful resource can be found here:

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Book your child's All Day Breakfast for next Thursday today.

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Save the Date! TKAT schools in the area are working together to bring parents a workshop on 'Understanding your child's behaviour' in the new year. 🗓️Friday 23rd January 2026 ⏰9.30-11am 📍At Northdown Primary School, Margate. Tea and coffee available from 9.15am

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🎄✨ From all of us at Drapers Mills, we’d like to wish all our wonderful families a very Merry Christmas. We hope your holidays are filled with love, laughter, and special moments together. Thank you for being part of our community — we can’t wait to see you all again on January 6th! ✨🎄

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🎄🧶 Christmas Jumper Day 2025 🧶🎄 We had a fantastic time celebrating Christmas Jumper Day at Drapers Mills! The children and staff looked amazing in their bright, cosy, and wonderfully festive jumpers. It was a lovely day full of smiles, laughter, and Christmas cheer. Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make it so special! 🎅✨

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🎄✨ Christmas Fun Day at Drapers ✨🎄 We had a wonderful Christmas Fun Day at Drapers on Wednesday! A huge thank you to the Friends of Drapers, and especially to our amazing chair Lisa, who organised such a fantastic event for every pupil — it truly made the day extra special. Santa was very impressed with all of our pupils and their wonderful manners, which made us all incredibly proud. It was a brilliant day filled with fun, smiles, and festive cheer — a great day had by all! 🎅🎁🎄

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Kent Adult Education are running courses throughout January and February 2026. To book your place on one of these FREE courses, go to 🔗www.kentadulteducation.co.uk and enter the course code into the search box.

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A massive well done to Walpole Bay who have won the Christmas class attendance Challenge 🎉 with an overall 95.29%. Breakfast will be ready for you in the morning and you can enjoy a film and popcorn in the afternoon. 😊

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Our ACE children had a second visit to Revolution Skatepark and Climbing Centre This time the group were given the opportunity to use scooters in the skatepark. The children were cautious to begin with but it was fantastic to see their confidence blossom throughout the session and by the end the children were having a great time (and going rather fast!). 🛴 Great work everyone!

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