Category: News

This has been a very busy half term with lots of activities going on across the school. I do hope that you enjoyed the Easter Celebrations and the opportunities to come into school this week to look at your children’s work and displays.

Today was Languages Day at the school and were joined by pupils from Balcarras, parents and GCHQ Languages Outreach. The children had the opportunity to speak Mandarin, Russian, German, French, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. They also found out about the culture and traditions of many of these countries too. Thank you to Mrs Grisman…

With many areas of the country breaking up for half –term          today, it feels like our half-term break is still quite a long way off. It has been a long and challenging          half-term in many ways but as always it has been a    delight to see the children really enjoying their learning at school.

Kung Hei Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year to you all. It’s been another busy week in school with lots of things going on. Clubs have started again and the football team has already been action. Year 3 have started swimming again and they have a new bus driver  –  ask the         children! The children…

Happy New Year !!!! I hope that you all had a great Christmas Break and that 2023 has started positively for you all. The children all appear to be well rested and have settled quickly back into the routines for school.

This will be my last newsletter of the year and I would like to wish all parents and friends of the school a very Happy Christmas and a great start to 2023. I would also like to thank all of the parents and volunteers that have supported the school over the last year in the…

The Christmas Tree is up in the hall and all of the classrooms are starting to look a lot like Christmas! It can only mean one thing……………. Christmas is nearly here! The school will be holding it’s Christmas performances next week for KS2 and the week       after for KS1. Rehearsals are stepping up a gear for…

We have had another busy couple of weeks again in school and I am aware that there have been lots of fundraising requests of late from Rags2Riches, to Teams4U Shoeboxes, to the Poppy Appeal and topped off with Children in Need today. I would like to say a massive thank you to you all for…

I cant believe that it is already half-term! It has been a very busy term for       everyone and so many exciting things have taken place across the school. The last two weeks have been particularly busy with lots of events in and outside the school. The Harvest Celebration we had last week was a huge…

I hope that you have all had a good week. The weather seems to be   shifting into Autumn and the leaves are starting to fall all around the school now and we’ve had a couple of wet playtimes this week  – those lovely summer days seem such a long time ago now. The Y6 children…

Welcome back after what I hope was a great summer for you all. It has been wonderful to have all of the children back in school and with the weather still pleasantly warm and dry it has been great to see them all playing on the field together. The new Reception       children are all now…

A word from the head……. We made it!……..again. Pandemics and extreme heat, whatever next? When I wrote to you this time last year we were coming to the end of a very challenging period of time following two national lockdowns. I don’t think that any of us thought that this academic year could be as…