Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• SP FEST

  Thu 21 Jul 2022

  Hi all,

   

  This weather really is against us this week! However, we are going ahead with SP Fest this afternoon, with a few changes to the layout as the grass is too wet to sit on.

   

  The children will be seated in front of the stage, with chairs for the parents at the back. However, we don't have enough chairs for every single parent that is coming to watch so if you have camping chairs, folding chairs etc that you can bring please feel free to do so!

   

  Gates will open at 12.45pm, with the festival set to begin at 1pm prompt.

   

  Thanks everyone!

• Family Fun Day

  Wed 20 Jul 2022

  The Prince of Wales pub are having a Family Fun Day on Saturday 27th August. There will be lots of fun activities including a Tombola with proceeds kindly being donated to our school.

  

• Happy Healthy Holidays

  Tue 19 Jul 2022

   

   

  Wakefield Council are working in partnership with voluntary and community organisations, local schools and childcare providers as part of the WF Happy Healthy Holidays programme, funded by the DfE to provide a summer of free activities and food for children and families eligible for income – related free school meals throughout the district. 

  • There are still places available in your area with Sun lane Leisure Centre at and Pugneys Country Park. Activities are running 1^st-19^th August for 8-15 year olds. Find out more and book online via the booking website: https://aspireatthepark.coordinate.cloud/list
  • Sports activities are available at Denhale Activity Centre between the 1^st-18^th August for 5-11 year olds. Find out more and book online via the booking website: https://dsyatdenhalearccic.coordinate.cloud/list
  • St Georges Community Centre, Lupset are running activities for both 5-12 and 13-16 year olds between 1^st – 24^th August. Find out more and book online via the booking website: https://stgeorgeslupsetltd.coordinate.cloud/list
  • Eastmoor Community Centre are running activities for 5-11 and 12-16 year olds throughout August. Find out more and book online via the booking website: https://eastmoorcommunityprojectlimited.coordinate.cloud/list
  • Wakefield Trinity are running activity camps for 5-16 years olds at The Be Well Support Stadium, Doncaster Road this Summer. Find out more and book online via the booking website: https://wakefieldtrinityfommunityfoundation.coordinate.cloud/list
  • Family events (parents/carers must attend with children) are running at Castle Family Hub and Stanley Family Hub. Events will be running on the 9^th, 16^th and 23^rd of August. Find out more and book online via the booking website: https://childrensfirsthub.coordinate.cloud/list
  • HomeStart are running family events (parents/carers must attend with children) at Thornes Park on 2^nd August and 18^th August. Find out more and book online via the booking website: https://homestartwakefieldanddistrict.coordinate.cloud/list

   

   

  For a full list of activities running across the district visit: https://wakefieldcouncil.coordinate.cloud/

  For further information about WF Happy Healthy Holidays please visit https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/schools-and-children/happy-healthy-holidays

   

  Kind regards

  The Happy Heathy Holidays Team

   

  

• SP FEST new date

  Mon 18 Jul 2022

  We are pleased to let you know that we have re-arranged our activities this week and have organised for the SP FEST to go ahead this Thursday 21st July. We apologise that this is short notice, but we know that you will appreciate that the weather situation is beyond our control. As it is forecast for Thursday to be a much more bearable temperature, we will start at 1:00pm and you are welcome to stay for the afternoon. The children will stay out all afternoon to watch the other performances as originally planned.

  Please make sure your child is equipped with a hat, sun cream and water.

   

  Mr Tyrrell will share the new running order on the Class Stories on Dojo.  Some parts of the event are unfortunately not able to go ahead - Rock Steady are completely booked up this week so the bands won't be able to perform. (We will re-schedule this for the new term).  Also please bear with us with our technical equipment - we were going to use theirs! 

   

  The children have been enjoying practising their performances and are looking forward to being able to perform them for you. 

   

  Thank you for your support and understanding.

• Hot weather & SP Fest

  Sun 17 Jul 2022

  Good afternoon,

  Even though we have spent time risk assessing, changing and adjusting the plans for SP FEST, we are now unfortunately having to cancel to ensure the safety of our children and our families due to the forecast of extreme heat. Please be assured that over the next two days we have plans in place to make sure your children are as cool as possible including increased water stops and other creative ways. Please make sure children come to school with suncream, a water bottle and a hat. We will be limiting time outside and will make decisions around this based on shade, breeze etc on the day but if children do go out it will be for a very short time. The children can wear their PE kit for the next two days if you wish. Again, we are ever so sorry, these decisions are the hardest part of our job. 
  We will look at the plans for the rest of the week tomorrow and decide if we can rearrange in some form. 
  Thank you for your continued support. 

• Hot weather measures

  Fri 15 Jul 2022

  The government advice is to take extra measures in school on Monday and Tuesday which of course we will be doing.

   

  Can we please ask that you help us to keep the children sun safe too.

  All children MUST wear sun-cream and a hat on Monday and Tuesday – if you do not have any of these items and are unable to get them please let your teacher know and we can support you. They must also have a water bottle with them that they can top up throughout the day with cold water.

   

  For the SP FEST on Tuesday we have fully risk assessed the afternoon and we will be going ahead but your child will only spend their performance part of the session outside plus the chance to watch one other song in the shade. We have decided that our children have missed many opportunities over the past two years and built up to things to then be let down – this will provide a safe compromise.

   

  We are advising that parents try and limit their time with us to just their own children’s performances – see the timetable of events. We will try our best to stick to these timings. We will only be having the main gate  (top gate nearest main entrance) open on the day as due to safeguarding reasons we must limit entry points. Also for any families that have multiple siblings we will provide classroom 5 as an area where you can wait if you would like to between performances particularly if you have babies and toddlers. There will be cold water in this room available should you need this – but please bring  a drink with you also.  Due to the extreme heat we will not be providing a drinks/snack stall as previously planned as these items would become too warm but do feel free to bring these with you and place all waste in bins provided. (No alcohol please).  As usual, no dogs permitted on our school grounds. 

   

  We are really looking forward to our SP FEST and although it will not run as we originally planned we will still have a fun time together.

  Thank you for your continued support.

   

  Mrs Peace

• SP FEST update

  Wed 13 Jul 2022

  Good Afternoon,

  We have been keeping a close eye on the weather ready for our much-anticipated SP FEST next Tuesday (19^th July pm).

  It is predicted to be very warm with temperatures around 27 degrees. In response to this we have been forced to re-look at our plans for the afternoon. 

  The children are very excited and ready to perform but we also need to ensure our children, and families, are safe and not exposed to the sun for a long period of time. Therefore, we have decided to provide you with a running order with ESTIMATED times (see below) to help avoid you sitting through the whole afternoon, if this is something that you would prefer to do. The children in our care will then complete their performance on the stage and then instead of sitting through the whole festival, they will watch the next performance before returning to class. This allows our pupils to perform and be the audience whilst ensuring that the children are not outside for too long.

  The Rock Steady Bands will also perform as planned. This will take place halfway through the concert.

  This, to us, seems like a compromise which allows our children to still take part and enjoy the day.

  If you are not attending the whole show can we please ask that you enter the school grounds quietly and find a place to sit in the allocated area until you are ready to leave – after all, a real festival has some fluidity of adults around the grounds!

  We look forward to seeing you on the day for as long as you feel comfortable!

  (Please note, if the weather is cooler - around the 20 degree mark- we will run the event as usual).

   

  Thank you,

  Mrs Peace

  

• Summer Fayre - thank you!

  Tue 12 Jul 2022

  Thank you to everyone who supported our Summer Fayre last week. We had a great turn out on the day. Also, thank you for your many contributions leading up to the event that made it such a success.

  We are pleased to announce that we have raised an amazing £3000 (approximately). This money will go towards our school fund and will be spent on the children. 

  Grand prize raffle winners have been posted on class windows, prizes can be collected from the main office.

  We would once again like to thank the following local businesses for their donations and support:

  The Prince of Wales Pub

  Queens Drive Fisheries

  Cafe Vie

  Central Bar Fish and Chips

  Carpenters 42 Ossett

  Philip's Hair Salon

  Casey's Fish and Chips

  Cupalicious

  Cooplands Bakery

  Halfway House

  Toby Carvery

  Silkwood Farm

  Ego Restaurant

  Nostalgic Kitchen

  The Maypole

  Barracuda Fisheries

   

  Thank you. 

• SUMMER FAYRE

  Thu 07 Jul 2022

  SUMMER FAYRE

   

  We are looking forward to seeing you all at our Summer Fayre this afternoon from 3.20pm. There will be lots of stalls, games, refreshments, ice-cream and many prizes to be won.

   

  The GRAND PRIZE raffle, Mr. Shaw's raffle, Treasure Island, Sweets in a Jar....winners announced Tuesday 12th July. 

  Prizes can be collected from the school office or Mr. Shaw. 

  Silent bid winners for the cakes will be contacted tomorrow morning. 

   

  We would like to give a huge thankyou to everyone that has supported our Summer Fayre, including the businesses below. Their very generous and kind gifts will help us to buy new school equipment that will be used by all the children. 

   

  Queens Drive Fisheries

  Cafe Vie

  Central Bar Fish and Chips

  Carpenters 42 Ossett

  Philip's Hair Salon

  Casey's Fish and Chips

  Cupalicious

  Cooplands Bakery

  Halfway House

  Toby Carvery

  Silkwood Farm

  Ego Restaurant

  Nostalgic Kitchen

  The Maypole

  Barracuda Fisheries

   

  THANK YOU! 

• TRANSITION

  Wed 06 Jul 2022

  Transition Day

   

  This morning the children are meeting with their new teacher and spending time talking about their new class routines etc.

  Most classes will move up as they are in September and will not be mixed, with the exception of our current Reception pupils who will be entering Year 1, and our Year 1 pupils who will be entering Year 2. 

   

  The new classes will be as follows:

   

  Please note that we have some changes. This includes two of our teachers who are leaving us: Miss Vaughan who has worked this year as one of our Reception teachers and Miss Harkin who has been one of our Year 3 teachers. We wish to thank them both for all of their hard work this year and wish them every success for their futures.

  Our new teachers are Miss Crowther in Reception, and Miss Sutcliffe who will be in Year 3.

   

  Reception classes:

  Nursery children who are school age will go to either Miss Driscoll (Class 1) or Miss Crowther (Class 2).

   

  Year 1 classes:

  Children who have been in Reception with Miss Driscoll or Miss Vaughan will either move to Miss Haley (Class 3) or Mrs Brealey (Class 4).

  (You will receive a letter today informing you of your child's class teacher). 

   

  Year 2 classes:

  Children who have been in year 1 with either Miss Haley or Mrs Brown will either move to Mrs Marsden (Class 6) or Mrs Iveson (Class 7).

  (You will receive a letter today informing you of your child's class teacher).

   

  Remaining classes:

   

  Current class / teacher	New class / teacher
  Class 6 Miss Brealey	Class 8 Miss Fabregas
  Class 7 Mrs Iveson	Class 9 Miss Sutcliffe
  Class 8 Miss Fabregas	Class 10 Mrs Harrison
  Class 9 Miss Harkin	Class 11 Mrs Brown
  Class 10 Mrs Harrison	Class 13 Mr Lewty
  Class 11 Mrs Marsden	Class 12 Mr Tyrrell
  Class 12 Mr Lewty	Class 14 Mrs Whiteley
  Class 13 Mr Tyrrell	Class 15 Mr Morton

   

  Uniform for September

  As you may start to think about buying new uniform, we thought we would let you know in advance our expectations for September.

  We have a smart but simple uniform that we expect all pupils to wear.

  Black / grey trousers, skirt (to the knee), pinafore dress, culottes or shorts.

  White polo shirt with or without school logo.

  Royal blue sweatshirt, v necked jumper or cardigan with or without logo.

  Blue checked summer dress.

  Black school shoes/ plain black trainers.

   

  PE Kit

  We will continue the rule that children will wear their PE kit on the days when they have timetabled PE as long as they stick to the rules. We are asking that all children strictly wear:

  Black or navy shorts /tracksuit bottoms, a white t-shirt, and a black or navy tracksuit top. No logos please. A pair of trainers.

  We expect ALL children to wear the correct uniform and ask that all parents/carers support us with this please. 

   

  Thank you for your co-operation.