Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to this week’s newsletter! We hope you and your family are well and enjoying the early signs of spring. As always, we are incredibly proud of our school community and the way our children continue to shine—through their curiosity, kindness, and enthusiasm for learning.
In Monday's assembly, we celebrated the winners of a story in a jar. We thank every child that entered and Mrs Lampitt has already purchased some new books for the class libraries with the money raised. Our next competition will be the Easter Bonnet competition (Friday 27th March).
Mr Hand (Trust Vice CEO), Mrs Bradshaw and I along with our Maths leader, Mrs Rudge, completed a picture building on Maths. We are pleased to share that we can see progress that the school has made since the OFSTED inspection; children are eager, can talk about previous learning, are aware of the help and support they can get in lessons, understanding that learning is building on prior knowledge and skills.
Mrs Hamblin joined Mr Hand and the school leaders to discuss the wider impact that the school is making. They would both like to thank staff, children and parents for all their hard work and effort that has been put into children's learning.
Reception need your help . . . . On Wednesday they are junk modelling with parents. If any parents have empty cardboard boxes or plastic bottles, the teachers would appreciate any donations on Monday and Tuesday.
Staffing updates;
The junior school are saying 'Goodbye' to Mrs Fletcher on Monday. As a school, we would like to thank her for the wonderful service that she has provided over the last 10 years across both sites, as she originally started at Heathfields.
Mrs Tudor-Stringer will be moving to the junior kitchen to manage the junior kitchen with Mrs Ponsford. Miss Rylatt will be stepping up to become Heathfields cook, she will continue to be supported by Miss Markham and Miss Lowe (from the junior kitchen)
Easter Menu
There is a change to the menu on Friday 27th March to mark Easter. The menu is as follows;
Upcoming event - Easter Bonnet Parade
We will be holding our annual Easter Bonnet Parade on Friday 27th March (weather permitting). All children are asked to make/decorate an Easter hat/bonnet and parade around the playground.
We hope that we have a visit from the Easter Bunny, and they will bring some treats for the best hats/bonnets!
Celebrations
The class with the highest number of readers was Murphy with 86%
The class with the best attendance was Murphy with 100% . . . . a double win for Murphy class!
Dates for your diary;
18th March - Reception parents can stay and do some junk modelling with their child (9-10am)
20th March - Non-school uniform; donations for Easter hampers
23rd March - Launch of this year's sunflower competition (at the end of the week all children will come home with a pot of sunflowers to grow)
26th March - Easter bingo at the juniors (tickets are on sale via the arb shop)
27th March -Easter Bonnet Parade at 9am (weather permitting)
Messages from the PTFA
We will be sending both schools some sunflower seeds for the children to grow, ready for our annual sunflower competition. Please look out for the planted sunflower seeds week beginning 23rd March.
Thank you for your continued support.
Have a lovely weekend
Mr Melloy
