Good evening,

I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year!  It has been great to be back in school with the children.  We have shared thoughts around our goals for the year and I am delighted to see how grateful, motivated and positive the children are.

The staff worked incredibly hard during our two Inset days.  Our focus was on our curriculum offer and we look forward to sharing this with you soon.  I thank them all for their hard work and dedication as we strive to constantly develop.

Mrs Dodds and I spent an afternoon with our School Improvement Partner and our Education Welfare Officer on Thursday reviewing our procedures, interventions and support in relation to attendance.  This was a positive meeting and is encouraging as we work hard to drive our attendance levels up.  We thank you for your support with attendance and we are pleased to join together with families to appreciate the joy, value and importance of attendance. 

We would like to begin some parent partnership work to gain input from parents regarding some of our strategies and communication.  This may be around attendance but also other aspects of school life.  If you would be interested in sharing a little of your time and your opinions, please be in touch and we will be keen to have your support.

At the beginning of a new term, I wanted to remind all parents that we are a strictly no nuts school.  Children can bring a fruit or vegetable snack but this is provided for the Infants.

I wish to pass on more thanks to Nirvana Spa who have carried out a lot of work over the holidays and over the past few days.  I attach a couple of photos from our Barley Barn opening from the last day of term.  We are so fortunate to have such wonderful support.

On Wednesday next week it will be the closing date for Reception 2025 applications so please remind friends and family if they are in the position of needing to apply.  I still have tours booked for Monday and I look forward to them.  If you know of families who may wish to look around, we do have a group tour available to add people to.

I wish you a lovely weekend.

With kind regards

Jacquie Vanstone