Weekly Update Friday 15th May 2026
08 May 2026
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…
Sports Day – Thursday 21st May
Kirkby Malzeard World Cup: Sports Day 2026
Get your flags ready! We are turning our school field into a global stadium for a day of teamwork, skill, and world-class effort.
The Tournament Schedule
12.50 Stadium Gates Open: Find your spot in the spectator zone. Don’t forget to bring picnic blankets and chairs for comfort! The fan zone (refreshments) is open for drinks and cakes.
13.10 Opening Ceremony & Parade of Nations: The children will march out representing their allotted countries (as revealed in our big World Cup Draw on Friday 15th).
13.15 Global Skill Stations: Children rotate through challenges like the "Golden Boot", ‘Hand Ball’, and the ‘The Robot’. Spectators are invited to follow and cheer on.
14.00 Track Events: Get comfy in the spectator zone with your refreshments and your cheering voices ready for the ‘Dribbling Dash’ obstacle course, the ‘Kit-bag, bean bag’ race and the final "Golden Trophy" sprints.
15:00 The ‘Legends’ Parents' Race: We’re calling all adult "substitutes" for a quick sprint and ‘The Rising Stars’ race for all toddlers.
15.15 Trophy Presentation: We’ll award the Junior World Cup Trophy to the winning country.
What to Wear: "Kit Out" Day
To get into the spirit, all children are invited to come to school wearing their favourite football kit (or their own sportswear) for the day. Whether it's a club team or a national shirt, we want to see a sea of colour on the pitch!
The "Fan Zone" (Refreshments)
Our PTA will be running the "Fan Zone" gazebo to keep you fuelled:
World Cup Cake Stall
Hot & Cold Drinks
Extra Time
· Weather Watch: If the pitch is waterlogged, we’ll send an update via email by 8:15 AM.
· Sun & Hydration: Please ensure children have sunscreen applied, a hat to wear and have their water bottle in school
· Photography: You’re welcome to snap photos of your own superstars after the event, but please do not take any photos which include other children.
Let’s see which nation takes home the trophy!
Spotlights from Learning…
Acorn Class
Reception have been working hard in their Mastering Number this week using the stem sentence ‘Ten is made from – and --, -- and – make ten.’ We have been using our fingers along with our sentence to find and recall all of the number fiends that make ten, I wonder if you can show your family and friends at home. Year 1 have been looking at the coins 1p, 2p 5p and 10p and thinking carefully about the value of these coins, we have also been revisiting some addition equations, where and addend plus and addend is equal to the sum, I wonder if you can explain this at home?
Oak Class
This week, Oak Class have started to learn about special times for people of the Jewish faith. We learnt about the story of Passover (Pesach) when Moses led the people of Israel out of slavery in the time of ancient Egypt. Can your child remember the story? We have also learnt how some Jewish today people remember this event by preparing a special meal (seder). We made our own seder plates in groups, gathering together food items that represent different events in the story. Ask your child to recall what the charoset (apple), horseradish and flat bread represent.
Palm Class
We have been amazing ourselves with our maths this week...after a thorough look at column addition over the past few weeks, we have now moved onto column subtraction. As long as we remember to consider which number is our minuend and which is our subtrahend, solving our equations is easy! (We have a little rhyme with actions to help us...minuend minus the subtrahend is equal to the difference.) We have even mastered subtractions where we need to regroup 1 ten for 10 ones. We are going to try it out on 3 digit numbers next. I wonder if your child can explain it to you at home?
Cedar Class
Cedar class have had a wonderful week in history, learning all about the Spanish Armada and how the British managed to defeat the Spanish force. Why not ask your child what tactic the British used to fight the first part of the battle and what year the battle took place?
Class Collective Worship
Each week one of our Collective Worship sessions takes place in class with a focus on something in the news. Attached in 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.
This week’s take home…
-Take Home 15th May.pdf-
Message from Friends
General Update
Friends are currently working hard behind the scenes to organise some great events before the end of the academic year and deliver school project donations.
Watch out for further updates and invitations to a Fun Run and an End of Term School Disco!
Frozen Fridays
This week’s Frozen Fridays will be served by the School Council. They are SO excited!
Sports Day
Friends are looking for parent bakers to donate baked goodies for Sports Day (21st May).
Please bring any items with you on arrival to Sports Day.
An ingredients list must be provided with each item and remember Nut Free please.
Friends will be holding an on the day raffle at Sports Day, if anyone is able to donate and contribute towards the raffle prizes that would be hugely appreciated please see your class rep with donations.
Rounders
On Tuesday we will be welcoming Sporting Influence back into school to host our rounders dales competition and skills morning. Please can all children come to school in their full PE kit and have a water bottle. Children may stay in their PE kit for the duration of the day.
Save The Dates
Sponsored Fun Run = Thursday 18th June
End of Term Disco = Thursday 9th July
Friends Meeting
Friday 15th May - 2.30pm in the school hall.
Friends will be discussing any outstanding donations for this academic year and will be starting to discuss fundraising ideas for the next school year.
Everyone is welcome.
Reminders…
Book Club
Each term we have been reading a book and then come together to share our thoughts and do an activity based on the book we have read; book club met this Thursday to share our thoughts on ‘Gordon the Meanest Goose on Earth’ and ‘Dracula and Daughters’. Look out for details about next half terms book club which will be based on graphic novels, everyone is welcome.
Photographs
Reminder that the closing date for orders is Friday 15th May.
Forest School Friday
To support our Golden Threads, Helen will be running a morning forest school session for each class on a Friday morning. Dates are as follows:
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.
Acorn class have forest school
every Wednesday afternoon. Please bring your forest school kit with you to change into.
PE days
Acorn - Tuesday (please come dressed in your PE kit)
Oak - Friday
Palm - Friday
Cedar – Friday
Coats and sun cream
As we have seen this week the weather can be somewhat unreliable, please can all children come to school with a waterproof coat every day, they might also need a sunhat. Please can children come to school wearing sun cream ready for the day as we are often outside. If children need to re-apply sun cream this should be handed to your child’s teacher in a named bottle, they need to be able to apply cream independently. Please check the ingredients carefully as often sun creams contain nut oils.
Bus Booking Form W/C Monday 18th May 2026.
Please note this form needs to be submitted by Monday 18
th May - 9.00am and we will no longer be accepting changes by phone or email.
Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Updates…
Packed Lunches
Please can we remind parents of all children to continue to cut grapes and similar items such as
cherry tomatoes to reduce the risk of choking for all children. Thank you for your continued support in keeping our children safe.
News from the Wider Community…
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-Nidd News 15th May.pdf-