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Headteacher blog 26/3/21
Children have been completing some assessments this week, helping us to analyse where there may need to be some intervention and the extent to which children are reaching age-related expectations academically. We will have to help some children fill some gaps, but we also want to restore a rich, broad curriculum and focus on Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 19/3/21
It has been our second full week back after lockdown, and some things are becoming clearer. Most children seem fine: simply happy to be back at school. For some children, however, anxieties have heightened. These are typically children who were known to us for related reasons previously. Standards don’t appear to have dropped off Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 12/3/21
It is soooo good to have all the children back in school. For the vast majority of children, it appears to have been a quick readjustment to ‘normal’ school life and routines. For some of our youngest children, they have known little else. We know that this isn’t quite our usual, most ambitious and exciting curriculum Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 5th March 2021
We are so looking forward to welcoming all the children back into school on Monday. A very large majority of children and families have been able to engage very well with the remote learning offer and I think that staff have done a very good job in difficult circumstances. I would particularly like to Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 26th February 2021
It’s been a momentous week at school: Monday’s confirmation that all children will return on March 8th and a huge bit of news regarding some additional funding for the school. The return to school is clearly something we all welcome and are looking forward to. It will be great to have everyone back and Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 12/2/21
Brrr…. It’s been shockingly cold this week: not helped at school by needing to keep windows open for Covid-related ventilation and the failure of parts of our super-duper new heating system in the juniors. Fortunately, the classroom heating kept working. We have made it to the end of what has been a long and Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 5/2/21
We have been putting a lot of effort into remote marking systems over the past couple of weeks, responding to feedback from parents that suggested that this area was a less strong element of our successful remote learning provision. Teachers in Years 1 and 2 have been trialling the use of short video feedback Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 29th January 2021
Many thanks to the 260 respondents to the Remote Learning survey that we sent out last weekend. Feedback was largely positive and gave us a few things to look at. It is a difficult time for everyone – for you, at home, helping with remote learning, and for us trying to deliver it effectively Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 22/1/2021
We had very disappointing news today with confirmation that our bid for a six figure chunk of the government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (for air source heat pumps and a big solar installation) has been unsuccessful. Almost all Leeds’ bids were rejected as they couldn’t be completed by March 31st. Given that the fund Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog January 15th 2021
Tricky times…. Whilst we have settled into a more reasonable routine as regards COVID restrictions and the new Critical Worker/Remote Learning dual schooling, snow and ice have added a further challenge this week. Thursday’s snow was much heavier and deeper than anyone expected and, although we managed to stay open, it was very helpful Read More
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