Head Teacher's Blog
Headteacher blog 26th November 2021
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Headteachers all got a letter from Secretary of State Nadim Zahawi this week exhorting us to improve school attendance: ironically, in the week that our attendance has been at an all time low! COVID rates are rising for us and there are also a lot of sickness cases and heavy colds around. I am Read More
Headteacher’s Blog 19/11/2021
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It has been a difficult week attendance-wise as COVID cases continue to rise again and there also seems to be a great deal of sickness around. This has affected staff and children alike. As I said to governors recently, the continued disruption to education for individual children and the historic low attendance overall (about Read More
Headteacher blog 12th November 2021
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I have been doing more tours for prospective parents this week, and one had an unusual request: they particularly wanted to see a playtime. We changed the timings and accommodated their request and it was lovely to see: junior children spread across the site playing games, climbing the tree house (and real trees to Read More
Headteacher blog 05/11/21
05/11/2021 · 1 comment
Happy Diwali to all our families celebrating this week! I hope you have had a wonderful time. Another sign of things getting back to more like normal are regular school trips going out again. This week 3E visited a synagogue in Roundhay as part of their religious education curriculum. The children were effusive in Read More
Headteacher blog 22nd October 21
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It’s the end of a positive half term, with things getting significantly more ‘normal’. COVID (and other illness) is still having an impact with overall attendance just less than 90%. Typically, it would be around 96%. We have also found managing staff absences very challenging, with at least one staff member off with COVID Read More
