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…

Important Update: New School Information System (Arbor) from September
Arbor
Further to our recent communication, we are transitioning our school management system to Arbor. This system consolidates our school data and communications into one platform, allowing you to easily manage your child's school life from your smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Through the Arbor Parent Portal and Arbor Parent App you will be able to:
•     View your child's attendance 
•     Receive in-app messages and notifications directly to your phone
•     Update your contact information and manage consents
•     Make booking and payments for clubs, trips, and school meals
 
How to set up your account:
Today you will have received an email from school with your unique login link. Please complete the following steps:
1.   Open the welcome email from us (please check your junk/spam folder if you do not see it).
2.   Click the link provided in the email.
3.   Your username will be the email address we have on file for you.
4.   Click "Forgot your password?" to generate your password and log in.
Once your account is activated via your web browser, we highly recommend downloading the Arbor App for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
If you have any queries or have trouble accessing your account, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the school office for help.
 
END OF YEAR REPORTS
We hope to get end of year reports out to parents and carers next week.  For those children with SEND, their support plan will be included.  Please could you take the time to review this, add any comments you wish to make and sign, before returning to Miss Mandelson (SENCO).  You will then be provided with a copy to keep when they are reviewed formally in September.  As always, do not hesitate to get in touch with Miss Mandelson should you have any questions about the support your child receives.  You can email Miss Mandelson at:
senco@west-tanfield.n-yorks.sch.uk
 
Booknic
On Friday July 10^th we will be holding a ‘Booknic’ which is a chance to read, relax, eat and discuss books together and to build reading together memories. We will also be welcoming Harriet into school from the Library Service to launch the annual ‘Summer Reading Challenge’. Children will all share a picnic lunch together and we will have an extended reading buddies time weather permitting in the orchard. If your child has booked a school dinner they will have this served as a ‘picnic. Families are welcome to join us between 12.30pm and 1pm in the orchard.
 
Collective Worship
As we reflected last week following our pupil voice discussions, our young people never fail to inspire us with hope for the future. We sincerely hope they always remain true to what matters most to them. It is a genuine privilege to work alongside them.
This week, we have been learning about Plastic Free July and considering the part we can all play in caring for our planet and everyone who shares it. We have begun collecting and recycling both hard and soft plastics from lunchtime, and we have many other practical ideas that we are excited to put into action as we strive to live out our values each day.
We would like to invite families to join us in our whole school Collective Worship on the 6^th and 7^th July, these will be our ‘normal’ Collective Worship sessions and offer families the opportunity to share this special time in our day with us. Collective Worship takes place between 9.00am and 9.15am, please join us in the school hall. Everyone is welcome!
 
After School Club Years 1& 2


There are still spaces available for Years 1 & 2. Please sign up via the LA Performance Academy link to take part.

 https://la-performance-academy.classforkids.io/info/42
 
 
 
 
 
Spotlights from Learning…

Acorn
This week, we have been finishing our own versions of Where the Wild Things Are and beginning to dream up some wild adventures of our own. The children's creativity and imagination have been wonderful to see, we are excited to see how they bring their ideas to life in their writing next week. In History, we have continued to think about how we can find out about life beyond living memory. We have explored different sources of evidence and considered how artefacts, diary entries and stories from the past can help us understand the lives of those who came before us.
 
Oak Class
This week in DT, Oak Class have been applying their understanding of levers, pivots and linkages to design and create a range of moving creatures. Their imaginative creations included whales, sharks, dolphins, snakes, jellyfish, crabs, dragons and birds. Using card strips to form the levers and linkages, and paper fasteners as pivots, the children successfully built mechanisms that brought their creatures to life through movement.
Ask your child to explain how their creature works. Can they identify the input (the action used to make the mechanism move) and the output (the resulting movement of the creature)?
 
Palm & Cedar Class
We have had a super busy week with our final preparations for the school production this week. It is looking and sounding fabulous. On Wednesday we had the whole of St Nicholas school here and we performed for Rocket, Acorn and Oak classes – they were a fabulous audience. It was also fabulous reconnecting with our St Nicholas friends with a lovely picnic lunch outside – only feels like yesterday that we were on residential together! We really hope you enjoyed our performances at Masham town hall, thank you to everyone who came.
 
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.
 
This week’s take home…     -Take Home 3.7.26.pdf-  
 
 
Reminders…
 
PE days
Acorn - Tuesday (please come dressed in your PE kit)
Oak – Friday
Palm - Friday (some weeks next half term, Palm class will do PE on a Monday. Please can children bring their PE kits in on a Monday each week, in case our lesson is not on the Friday that week. Thank you! 
Cedar – Friday
 
Bus Booking Form W/C Monday 6^th July 2026.
Please note this form needs to be submitted by Monday 6^th July - 9.00am and we will no longer be accepting changes by phone or email.
 
 
SUPA Summer workshops
If your child enjoyed taking part in Beauty and the Beast, they may be interested in one of SUPA's summer holiday workshops. Each year we enlist the support from SUPA to help produce our KS2 musicals. Please see the flyer below. 
 



-Masham Show.pdf-