School News & Events

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…
 
Visitors from Thailand
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our visitors, Years 5 and 6 have been fantastic hosts so far, the whole school community has made everyone feel very welcome.  This week they have done workshops in Art and Forest school and we look forward to more exciting adventures together next week.
 
Football Club
Football Club is starting next week, on Tuesday 10^th June for KS2  and Wednesday 11^th June for KS1 for all those that have confirmed.  Football boots are not mandatory.
 
Gardening Club
Gardening Club is starting next week, on Wednesday 11^th June for all those that have confirmed.
 
Reading for Pleasure news 
Please follow the link below for this months family reading for pleasure newsletter from the Reading Agency, it includes lots of recommended reads, author news and age appropriate reading ideas, as well as competitions to win books and a writing competition.
 
https://mailchi.mp/21b46105c67a/discover-the-latest-books-extracts-and-author-features-on-readingzone-11037122?e=08db8d5506
 
Phonics Screen check
Next week in school Year 1 children will take part in the DFE National Phonics Screen check.  Parents will be sent an additional email about this.
 
Class Collective Worship
Each week one of our Collective Worship sessions takes place in class with a focus on something in the news.  Attached is a take home that you might like to think about and share with your child at home, there is no need to return this to school.  There is a new sheet each week.

-Take Home 5 June.pdf-  
 
Forest School Friday
To support our Golden Thread further, Helen will be running a morning forest school session for each class on a Friday morning based around understanding and embracing the wider world. The dates are on the website and are as follows:
 
Friday 6^th June – Palm
Friday 13^th June – Cedar
Friday 4^th July – Acorn & Oak
 
Children should come in comfy, warm clothes suitable for forest school. They will need long trousers, water proofs and wellies. Please send uniform in a bag for the afternoon session. 
 
Reminders…
 
Class PE days
The days for PE next term for each class are as follows: 
Acorn – Wednesday (Acorn class please come to school in your PE kit) 
Oak – Monday
Palm - Friday
Cedar - Monday
 
Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Updates…
None this week
 

News from the Wider Community… News from the Little Ripon book shop The Great North Author Tour is returning to The Little Ripon Bookshop on Saturday 21st June 4pm for another jam-packed hour of authors, books, signings, biscuits and chaos.  Please see the attached flyer for further details.   -GNAT 25 FlyerPoster.pdf-