Headteacher's Newsletter 13/06/2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you had a good half term break.  The children have returned refreshed and ready for their final half term of the school year.  This is a busy half term with many events which I will outline for you below.

Class Photographs
These will be taken on Wednesday 25th June so we ask that all children come in their school uniform on this day. 

Front Row Music Concert
For those children who take part in Front Row music lessons, there will be an end of year concert on Thursday 26th June at 2 pm.  This will take place in the school hall.

Wrongsemble Theatre Performance – Wednesday 2nd July
Following last year’s successful visit from Wrongsemble Theatre Company, we are delighted to welcome them back to school.  We feel it is important that the children enjoy a live theatre performance in school each year.  We request a donation of £2 per child towards this event.  This will be set up as a payment for you on School Money.

Parents’ Association Summer Festival
This will take place on Friday 4th July from 4 pm – 6:30 pm.  We hope to see as many families as possible at this event.  In order to prepare for this there will be two non-uniform days in exchange for a donation for the fair.  On Friday 27th June we would like a donation for the teddy and book tombolas.  On the day of the fair itself (4th July) please could children in Nursery, Reception, Year and Year 2 bring a donation of chocolate or sweets and children in Years 3 – 6 bring a bottle for the bottle tombola. 

Year 6 Production
Our Year 6 children will be performing Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits on Tuesday 8th July in the afternoon and Thursday 10th July in the evening.  Further information will come from the Year 6 team.

Norbury Fest
This will take place on Wednesday 9th July in the afternoon.  As part of our arts curriculum each year group will be performing during the afternoon.  They will also be selling products they have made as part of an enterprise project.  Performances will be repeated so that families with more than one child in school can be accommodated.  Performances will be at 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm and 2:30 pm.  The exception to this is Nursery who will be doing one performance at 2:00 pm. Weather permitting we will hold the event in the school grounds.  Further details will be made available before the time.

Savoy Cinema Visits
The Parents’ Association have very kindly funded a visit for every child in school to the Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor.  Over the course of two days, all the children will be travelling by coach to the cinema, enjoying the film and then returning to school.  All visits will take place in the school day and the children will be in school for their lunch.  All costs for this visit will be funded by the PA.
Visits will take place at the following times:
Thursday 10th July – AM
Years 3 and 4

Thursday 10th July – PM
Years 5 and 6

Friday 11th July - AM
Nursery and Reception

Friday 11th July - PM
Years 1 and 2
 
Children in Years 3 – 6 will be watching the BFG.  This is a PG film so if you have any questions or objections to your child seeing this film, please contact their class teacher.  On the Friday, our younger children will be watching the film Wish.  A snack of popcorn and a bottle of water is included.  Again, if you have any objections to this, please contact the class teacher.  We do need parental permission for this visit – please complete the Google form at https://forms.gle/QW2HkvRW17e5n6WZ6 to give your consent to your child taking part.  Class teachers will be in touch to ask for parent help for this visit.

Transition Week
The week beginning 14th July will be our transition week in school.  For those families who are new to us, we feel it is important that our children have a significant amount of time with their new teacher before the summer break.  This allays any anxieties the children might have and gives them and their new teacher a chance to get to know each other.  I will write with more detail nearer the time but the children will spend the week with their new teacher in their new classroom.  We also welcome our new Nursery and Reception children into school over this week.  For our Year 5 children they will be in school on Monday and Tuesday before their visit to Robinwood.  Our Year 6 children are supported by colleagues in school and begin work on their Leavers’ assembly. 

Sports Day
Sports Day will be on Wednesday 23rd July.  The Nursery beginning of the week group, RN, Year 1 and Year 2 event will take place in the morning and the Nursery end of the week group, RH and Years 3 – 6 will take place in the afternoon.  Final timings will be sent nearer the time.  Parents and friends are welcome to join us for this event.

Parental Conduct
I have been made aware of a small number of incidents whereby members of our parent body haven’t necessarily behaved in a way that we would wish.  Some of this behaviour is outside of the school grounds and we obviously have no way of controlling this.  However, I would request that all parents conduct themselves in a suitable manner and consider the wellbeing and welfare of other families.  I have attached a document we shared a few years ago which outlines our expectations of parents and carers.

As I said, this is a busy term!  We are very much looking forward to all that it brings and hope the children thoroughly enjoy all that they do.

Best wishes,
Becky Wood

Upcoming dates for your diary

​Wednesday 18th June
Nursery visit to Tatton Farm

Wednesday 25th June
Class photographs

Thursday 26th June
Front Row concert

Friday 4th July
PA Summer Festival – 4 pm

Tuesday 8th July
Afternoon – Y6 production

Thursday 10th July
Evening – Y6 production

Wednesday 9th July
Afternoon – Norbury Fest – all parents and friends welcome as all the children will be performing
Performances at 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm and 2:30 pm (Nursery performance at 2 pm only)

Thursday 10th and Friday 11th July
Visits to the Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor (funded by the PA)

Week beginning 14th July
Transition Week

Wednesday 16th July to
Friday 18th July
Y5 to Robinwood

Wednesday 23rd July
Sports Day

Thursday 24th July
9:30 am – Leavers’ Assembly
Term finishes