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Headteacher Blog 24th May 2024
It is the end of the half term and it has been busy with Y6 SATs, lots of trips and Y5 residential. 5KH had a lovely time Mon-Wed this week but the weather for 5HB from Wednesday has been extremely wet! We made some adjustment to our plans to reflect this, but they still Read…
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Year 5 Blog 17.5.24
Good afternoon parents and carers, This week we have finished writing a diary entry from the point of view of the Hobbit. the children worked hard to show off a range of past tenses, modal verbs, parenthesis and a variety of language features in the old fashioned and polite style of how the Hobbit Read…
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Headteacher blog 17th May 2024
It has been Y6 SATs week across the country this week. I am sure that most of our children will have done very well, although a few did show signs of some stress despite our best efforts to make the week fun. I am particularly concerned for those children that can only just access Read…
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Headteacher’s blog 10th May 2024
It has been a glorious week at school and it is definitely feeling more ‘summery’. The weather and availability of the school fields make playtime and lunchtimes much more enjoyable. The good weather was helpful for Year 5 practising their mountain biking skills at The Chevin this week and for 4Ke on their geography Read…
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This week in Nursery
Birds This week the pigeon has been visiting again so some of the children have be making their own pigeons. Number 4 This week in our Maths teaching sessions we have been representing the number 4 on paper. The children drew 4 horizontal lines, 4 vertical, 4 squares, 4 sunshines and the numeral 4. Read…
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Headteacher blog 3rd May 2024
It has been wonderful to see children able to enjoy the grounds much more this week: finally, some warmer, drier weather allowing us to mow. We are way behind our usual horticultural schedule, with potatoes still going into the ground, but things will accelerate now. The orchard is beautiful and bursting with blossom; some Read…
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This week in Nursery
Visiting the farm Last Friday and this Monday the children visited the farm and had a walk around the school grounds. Everyone had their wellies on and carefully walked through the mud. The children looked for signs of Spring as well as visiting the chickens and pigs. They saw the blossom on the trees Read…
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Headteacher blog 26th April 2024
It’s been a fine and busy week in school. Year 2 have visited the Yorkshire Wildlife Park this week: probably our longest minibus trip on the curriculum. Many thanks to the volunteer drivers. The children had a lovely time. Year 4 went to a skipping competition and we have had two U11 home football Read…
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Headteacher blog 19th April 2024
It was great to have the school back together on Monday although, of course, there was a great sadness shared amongst staff and the wider school community after the tragic news in the holidays. The school quickly got back into gear and Year 3 braved the weather for two successful trips to Harlow Carr Read…
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Headteacher blog 28th March 2024
I hope everyone has a great Easter break and Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim families as they celebrate Eid in the second week of the school holidays. The spring term finishes today and this means that I have now been headteacher here for exactly 20 years. That’s quite some time! I came here Read…
