School News & Events

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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…
 
Class structures and staffing for September 2025
As we near the end of the academic year, our thoughts in school have started to turn to the arrangements for the academic year ahead. Please find information regarding this below:

We recently ran a recruitment process to appoint a new teacher for Oak class. We were very lucky to have some very strong candidates and are delighted to have appointed Mrs Fielder and Mrs Clark to job share this role, both of whom have worked in school recently. 
 
We are also delighted to have appointed Mrs Phillips (who currently works in Oak Class) to work in Palm Class to job share with Miss Oates one day a week when Miss Oates is released for leadership time. This means Miss Oates will work four days each week with Mrs Phillips one day each week. Miss Oates has also been successful in being selected to lead a Maths group for teachers across North Yorkshire so Mrs Phillips will also be able to teach the class on the occasional days where she will need to be absent for this.
 
So Miss Oates can focus on her class and her new Maths role moving forward, she will be relinquishing her role as SENCo from September. Miss Mandelson, who is the SENCO at St Nicholas, will be taking over the SENCo role and working in school each week with our children.
 
Mrs Martin has decided that it is time to step away from the pastoral role in school and have more time for her family commitments. We are all so sorry that she is leaving us; please be assured, she will be coming back into school to support on an ad hoc basis and already has her name down for the residential week! We won’t let her go too easily! We are pleased to share that Mrs Bentley will be taking over the pastoral role in school.
 
Class Structure: 
Therefore, the class structure and staffing for next year will be as follows:
 
Acorn Class – Mrs Pawson
Reception and Year One
 
Oak Class – Mrs Fielder and Mrs Clark
Year Two 
 
Palm Class – Miss Oates and Mrs Phillips
Year Three and Year Four
 
Cedar Class – Mr Anson
Year Five and Six
 
Miss Oates and Mrs Pawson will continue in their leadership roles in school and are available for parents in my absence.
 
I know many of you will want to say a huge thank you to Mrs Martin for the amazing work she has done over the years for your children. There will be a collection for a gift for Mrs Martin. Should you wish to contribute to this, please send this in an envelope to the school office clearly labelled with ‘Mrs Martin – Donation’ by Monday 7th July.

Should you have any questions about any information above, please feel free to contact school via the office.
 
We look forward to the busy term ahead and to ensuring our children have a positive end to this year.
 
Reminder for all parents
Please can we ensure that all children come to school with a water bottle, sunhat and suncream applied, thank you for helping us to keep our children safe.
Please could we also ask that children do not bring toys and precious things from home into school.

September Reception starters
Acorn class will be welcoming our new Reception starters into school for their first induction day this week, we know they will be brilliant role models and make them feel very happy in our school.

Performance Rehearsals
Our Moana rehearsals will be continuing next week for Cedar class, we hope the line learning is going well.  These rehearsals will all be held at Kirkby Malzeard this year. 
 
Thank you for all the donations of large cardboard boxes, please continue to bring them in and drop them off at the KS2 classrooms. These boxes will help our backstage crew enormously to build the set. 
 
Book Token Competition
Please see below details and click on the link to get involved:  
Win £1,000 for your school’s library - National Book Tokens
Help your school #rebuildthelibrary – plus win a £100 National Book Token for yourself. Nominate a school to win our big prize and encourage reading for pleasure all year round.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools-prize
 
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 19th 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 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…
 
We have highlighted the free resources available each week from Big Life Journal, if you do not already subscribe to their free weekly download we highly recommend doing so, they have many great resources to help our young people, us and families.
https://biglifejournal.com/pages/freebies
 
They have a new resource which is available to buy on pre-order, if it is something that you might find helpful to use at home and be interested in looking at, we will be buying a set for use in school. Click here for the link.
 
 

News from the Wider Community…

Please find our Raring2go! Summer magazine below…

CLICK HERE FOR LINK

Please see the poster below from Parentcarervoice regarding creative writing sessions

  Creative Writing.pdf-