Head Teacher's Blog
Headteacher blog 7th October 2022
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This week I chaired the Leeds School Forum again. This group of headteachers, governors and senior council officers has an overview of education funding and budgets across the city. Once again, Leeds is missing out on £2million of funding for SEND next financial year as a result of a ‘cap on gains’ as we Read More
Headteacher blog 30th September 2022
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I upset a few children this week. We are running four competitive football teams this year, and I ran two lunchtime trials for Y6. Nearly 30 children attended and I needed to whittle things down to a team of 9 (and a sub) and another 7 children for a squad for the season to Read More
Headteacher blog 23rd September 2022
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It’s been a good week at school: attendance is finally up to pre-pandemic levels which is really helpful. All the classrooms are calm and purposeful. Our nursery teacher can’t stop smiling as she has a really super group of three year olds who have settled really well. It has been an exciting week for Read More
Headteacher blog 16th September 2022
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It has been a super week at school. I am into the ‘season’ of doing tours for prospective parents and the school has really shone as we have walked around classrooms and the grounds. It was wonderful to get email feedback after one of the tours this week from a family looking to move Read More
Headteacher blog 9th September 2022
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It’s great to be back in school and we have had, overall, a very positive week. We were very busy on Monday trying to put the infant building back together after very extensive (and messy) fire-stopping work over the summer. Many hands made light(er) work, but we were still cleaning on Tuesday morning and Read More
