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Bountiful holiday farm sessions with families
We have had three lovely Farfield Farm sessions over the holidays with over 20 families helping with upkeep of the beds, feeding animals and harvesting fruit and vegetables. Everyone worked hard and enjoyed spending time together. We harvested so many tomatoes and plums in particular. There was some good cooking at home afterwards too. Read More
Read newsAnnual Parent Survey 2025
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the end-of-year Parent Survey. We had nearly 200 responses. It is clear from the response that the overwhelming majority of children and families at our school continue to be happy, safe and successful. A summary of responses (and feedback over time) is below: 3
Read newsEnd of Year Leavers’ Assembly 2025
The junior hall was packed with children and staff from Nursery to Year 6 for the end of year Leavers’ Assembly as well as parents and carers for the Y6 leavers. We said goodbye to fantastic colleagues retiring or moving on to promotions: Sandra Malone, Jess Snaddon, Rebecca Howells, Karen Longhorn, Dan Hemming. Dan Read More
Read newsCamp-Over 2025 is a hot one!
We had 80 families camping and about 750 on-site for last weekend’s PTA Camp-Over. We think that the first was in 2014 and we missed a couple due to COVID, so this was probably our 10th event: the biggest and probably one of the best! We had a brilliant time in our water fight Read More
Read newsJunior Sports Day 2025
We had an exciting Junior sports day this week with every child participating in their own way. A big crowd of parents and carers cheered them on and were treated to lots of close races and impressive performances. Well done to all the staff for great organisation and such a smooth, well-run event that Read More
Read newsOutstanding Key Stage 2 Y6 SATs results
Our Y6 children have smashed their statutory SATs again! Last year, we were in the top 5% of schools for combined Greater Depth in Reading, Writing and Maths. This year, our writing was good but wasn’t as strong as 2024; however, Greater Depth in Reading, Maths and Grammar was outstanding! Our average scaled scores Read More
Read news6J residential Day 3
Just a quick blog to finish the week… The children had their final activity this morning. Miss Jones’ group went caving. I believe that almost all of them did the ‘Cat’s Crawl’ which is very challenging. Most ended up in Eglin’s Cave. Mr Harris’ group and Mrs Du Preez’s group did the via ferrata Read More
Read news6J residential Day 2
The children slept well (they might say they didn’t) and didn’t get up too early. The weather was gorgeous ‘first thing’ and has been ok, if a bit breezy, all day. The breeze may have helped reduce midges initially this evening. Each group has done two activities today. Groups 2 and 3 did canoeing Read More
Read news6J residential Day 1
We are having a very good residential so far. We drove through rain but it held off as we climbed up to Coldstone Cut outside Pateley Bridge. We looked down into the quarry and reminded ourselves about the formation of the limestone 300 million years ago. We arrived at How Stean Gorge shortly after Read More
Read newsNew Deputy Head teacher/SENDCO for school
As you may know, Deputy Headteacher/SENDCo Dan Hemming has been successful in securing the headship at Cookridge Holy Trinity Primary School for September. Lucy Swindlehurst, the former SENDCo, has been working with us part time this year as she moves to a new career outside of education but in a related field. Lucy’s last Read More
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