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Our Vision

We believe that our children should have the aspiration and opportunity to ‘Live life in all its fullness’ and ‘Shine like stars in the sky’.
 
New this week…
 
Theatre Visits
A massive thank you to all of you who have generously donated towards our upcoming theatre trips. Your support makes a world of difference, and we are thrilled to confirm that the trips will be going ahead as planned!

Reception, Year One and Year Two children are going to see ‘Mr Snow’ at Leeds Playhouse on Tuesday 3rd December during the afternoon, arriving back to school at around 4pm. Please see below the plan for the day.

Timings:
10.40am Brunch/Lunch
11:10am Depart school
12.20pm Arrive in Leeds and have bun and/or fruit snack at the theatre
1.00pm - Performance
3.50 - 4pm approx. arrival back at school
 
Children who have school lunch will have all food, drink and snacks provided for them.
Children who bring a lunch from home should bring a meal for mid-morning and then a snack and plastic bottle of water for the theatre. Staff will carry these.
 
Children should come in full uniform as normal on this day.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the school office.
 
Please also note that Nursery is closed on this day and craft club will be moved to Tuesday December 17th in lieu of this session. (Parents who this affects have been contacted directly). Wraparound care is available as normal.
 
Cold Weather
As we approach the colder weather, please can we remind all parents that we are outdoors in all weathers, including the very cold weather, so please ensure your child comes to school with plenty of layers, hats and gloves to ensure they can stay warm. 
 
Can we also remind parents that when your child is in forest school, they need to bring with them appropriate clothing and footwear to be outside all afternoon. They will need long trousers, long sleeves, lots of layers and then waterproofs and wellies on top of this.
 
Feedback from Parent Survey  
Thank you so much for the extremely positive feedback received on the parent voice surveys.  
100% of parents feel that their children are happy, safe and well behaved in our school.
100% of parents felt that their children do well at the school.   
100% of parent felt that their child/children’s personal development was well supported and that appropriate pastoral support was provided where necessary.
100% of parents would recommend our school to others.
100% parents feeling that school deal effectively and swiftly with any issues that arise,
Other feedback was also very positive with the majority of parents feeling that we offer a wide range clubs and that school has high expectations of their child/children.
 Thank you for taking the time to feedback to school.
 
Parent forum
Thank you to those parents who attended our parent forum last week. We really appreciate parents taking the time to come and share their views on school.

It was great to welcome a small group of parents to the forum to discuss Personal Development for our pupils in the federation. We strive to create a personal development offer for every child which includes enrichment activities across the curriculum from Reception through to Year 6 and promote different opportunities as individuals progress through the school. These include the fantastic Forest School sessions to theatre and religious visits as well as the infamous Bike Ability, Young Voices and Residentials in Key Stage 2. It was an opportunity to discuss the amazing range of activities available currently and also potentials for the future and gather parents views on this so they could be included.

This will now also be shared with the children for their feedback. Once this work has been completed school aims to produce a personal development map which each child will experience on their journey through school.
As with the introduction of any enrichments outside the classroom they can unfortunately only be facilitated by the support of parents and the fantastic fundraising efforts from Friends of the School. School would like to take this opportunity to thanks all parents for their continued support.
 
Parent help - send a postcard!
 
As part of geography and helping the children understand place and locational knowledge could I ask that if any parents or relatives are visiting places of interest or travelling to other destinations on day trips or on holidays that they pick up a postcard. They can either send to school by post or send the postcard with their child on return to school. We can then, together as a class, find, locate and investigate locations around the world. I am sure they will be eager to learn about who has been where and this will enthuse and encourage them to further their skills in using world maps, atlases and globes.
 

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Reminders…
 
NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe
As usual, we shall be participating in the NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe programme as part of our PSHE curriculum.  Please find attached further details about the sort of activities which will be taking place this month.  There are also some links to useful information for parents.

  -App_Datawest-tanfield_n-yorks_sch_ukTemp226613835_Speak Out Stay Safe Info for Parents SNWT.pdf-  

NSPCC workshop will take place on Tuesday 26^th November.
 


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