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This week we were sad to say goodbye to Padre John Hetherington, who is retiring as Rector of our parish. Padre John has been a strong supporter of our school over the last 10 years and has done a great deal of work behind the scenes for us, as well as leading collective worship...

Our School Development Plan As you know, our school is constantly improving and we are keen to introduce actions that ensure we maintain a high quality education for all our children. At a recent meeting of the Governing Body it was agreed that our School Development Plan this...

Congratulations to a pupil in our Year 3 class who won the Governor Award this term. Governors make the award to a pupil who has visibly enacted the school’s aims and ethos. This child has done particularly well within their classroom this term, and has also raised...

We have had a brilliant whole school maths day! Dr Mark visited and gave a magic maths show to all classes, and then the children worked in mixed-aged groups to undertake different problem solving activities. We all thought it was amazing!

Our 2016 end of year awards were presented at the Leavers’ Service. Congratulations to the winners of the KS1 and KS2 awards for fantastic attitudes all year, and the Carole Middleton award for achievement.

The termly Governors’ Award was presented to a pupil in Year 5 during the last assembly. She has consistently met the school aim throughout this term: “meeting excellent standards of achievement and behaviour”. Congratulations! She received a trophy and book vouchers.

Final Golden Book

Throughout this year, our Year 4 pupils have worked towards the Archbishop’s Youth Trust Young Leaders award. They learnt how to be leaders and identified a project in the community that they would like to improve. The wanted to “Be the change that you want to...

Have you seen the new dragon in our hall? Our after-school art club has created this magnificent (and scary!) piece of collaborative work. It really looks amazing! Art club will run again for younger children next term.

Some lucky Year 6 pupils visited Wimbledon for the final Thursday of the tennis championships. Although there was a lot of interest, we could only obtain 8 tickets in the ballot. Those selected were accompanied by Mr Weights and Mrs Dawber on the 7.30am train from Selby. We...