Principal’s Message

It’s the end of the first half term and what a spooktacular way to end it! The children, and staff, all look amazing in their Halloween costumes and their pumpkin entries for our competition are fang-tastic! I couldn’t be prouder to lead such an amazing school full of wonderful children and staff. This wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support we get from you as parents and carers so a huge thank you to you all for your ongoing support of the school.

It was wonderful to see so many of you in school over the last couple of evenings for the first parents’ evening of the year.  We strongly value the partnership with parents and carers at home in supporting your child’s progress. Please do remember that you don’t have to wait until parents’ evenings if you want to speak to a teacher. You can always email the school office to arrange a call should you need to. It was also lovely to see so many of our reception families coming after school this week to choose their child’s first ‘reading for pleasure’ book from our library collection. They also got to take home a special gift- a pack of phonics flashcards donated by FOGS to help support our mission that every child will be a reader.

October is Black History Month and so we have linked this important topic to our Reading Rocks assemblies. Children have heard tales of the Windrush Generation and of famous icons from black history amongst others.

It’s that time again , always timed perfectly with the change in weather, where our KS2 children get to try out for the cross country team. We were blown away with how many children tried out and the resilience they showed in running a distance that I could not even walk never mind run! We can only take 6 boys and 6 girls from each year group but I am so proud of every child who tried out.

More Halloween news-  to support our local community, we have again made sculptures for the Greetland Halloween Ghostly Trail as have our friends at West Vale Academy. If you walk the trail, please do send us pictures of our sculptures in situ through Seesaw. New for this year- there is a special selfie-frame sponsored by us and West Vale so make sure you take pictures of yourselves in it.

Today we say goodbye to our School Business Manager, Mrs Kaler, who is moving on to a promotion. She has made a real difference to the school in her time here and will be greatly missed. We have successfully appointed her placement, Mrs Bury, who currently works at another one of our trust schools. She will begin with us shortly after the holidays and will be a welcome addition to the team.

One final reminder, Friday 25th October and Monday 4th November are both training days and so the school will be closed to the children. The children start back in school on Tuesday 5th November for our favourite term of the year- the build up to Christmas where there will be so many wonderful things happening in school!

Bugs and hisses (terrible joke I know!)

Mrs Crowther