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Headteacher blog 29/4/22
29/04/2022 · No comments yet
We are all working hard at school: in part, preparing for SATs in Y2 and Y6 coming up next month. It’s a balance: we want to do well and reach our potential, but we also don’t want to narrow the curriculum nor place undue stress or anxiety on our children and staff. I think Read More
Headteacher blog 25th March 2021
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It has been a beautiful sunny week at school: lovely to see all the children enjoying and using the grounds. On Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of showing a group of staff from another local school around the grounds as they are looking for ideas and advice around their site development. One of Read More
Headteacher blog 18th March 2022
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It has been a lovely week at school. The sun is shining more and we have a flurry of off-site outdoor educational visits. This week, Year 2 have enjoyed trips to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and over the next two weeks all of Year 3 are going to Harlow Carr Gardens in Harrogate and Read More
Headteacher Blog 11th March 2022
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There are signs of spring all around: warmer weather, leaf buds, frollicking frogs and spawn in the pond and a fox feeding cubs (or a very pregnant vixen mate) on the school grounds. We lost a lot of our flock of chickens on Sunday/Monday morning and these incidents almost always take place in March Read More
Headteacher blog Friday 4th March 2022
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‘In like a lion, out like a lamb’ is the traditional description of March. This year, the winds came early and we are left with a damp squib. The school fields are a quagmire after so much rain and we are looking forward to the drier weather and the sunshine that is forecast next Read More