Summer smile competition

Have you captured a smile for our Summer competition yet? This summer, we’re looking for smiley faces to sum up our happy and healthy place to achieve and believe!

Over the Summer holiday, we want you to stay alert to happy and healthy faces all around you… and take a pic of any hidden smiley faces in your surroundings: a day out at the beach might include creating a smiley face, for example! Here’s our suggestion (look for the smiling face!)…

…but we’re sure you can do better!

Look out for things around you that show a hidden smiley face – a happy and healthy face – or encourage your child to create their own from things around them (pebbles, leaves, Lego…).

To help you get started, look out for some intended smiling faces like McCain Potato Smiles or commercial logos with a hidden smile but they’ll be too obvious to win the competition!

To enter, email your pics to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org by Monday 08 September. Enter ‘Summer competition’ as the subject.

All entries will be displayed in a happy and healthy display in school, and there are prizes for our favourites.

Our last weekly school message of the year: Friday 18 July 2025

We’ve reached the end of the school year – we hope it’s been a happy and healthy one at Moortown Primary for you and your child. Our message this week is a long one:

1. Our first message is about swimming – it’s especially important for parents of children moving into Year 3 next year
2. We’ve a uniform update – this is for everyone
3. Also for everyone are some links for holiday ideas
4. After this, we’ve an array of celebrations of our happy and healthy school!

Swimming lessons at Moortown Primary

We’re making an exciting change to how children in Years 3 and 4 access swimming lessons.

Currently, children in Year 3 go swimming. With travel included, it takes up a large part of the afternoon for a relatively short weekly lesson.

From next year, Moortown Primary and Scholes (Elmet) Primary (another Sphere Federation school) will share a time slot in the year for a pop-up pool – a purpose-built, temporary swimming pool. It will mean children in Key Stage 2 will benefit from an intensive 3 week block of lessons where they will swim for 45 minutes every day with fully qualified, external swimming instructors.

This alternating cycle begins with Scholes (Elmet) Primary in 2025-26 (so there are no swimming lessons next year for Moortown children). In 2026-27, we’ll have the pool. Across the two year cycle, all children in Key Stage 2 will benefit: children will either swim in Years 3 and 5 or in Years 4 and 6 during their time in Key Stage 2.

We understand this may seem like fewer lessons overall. However, the intensive, daily format has been shown to significantly boost children’s progress. Here’s why:

• Faster skill development: Swimming every day builds confidence and skill without the gap between weekly lessons that often leads to forgetting.
• More time in the water: Without the need for travel, children get more meaningful lesson time.
• Less disruption to learning: A concentrated block avoids weekly interruptions across the year, protecting curriculum time.
• Improved outcomes: Qualified instructors can better tailor lessons to each child’s needs, helping more pupils learn to swim and develop water confidence.

We’re confident this change will mean even more children can learn to swim whilst also saving on learning time lost throughout the year.

Uniform update

Please remind yourself of our Uniform Policy so you and your child can be ready for September. We’ve made a couple of minor changes: nothing major, mainly making the guidance around additional items hopefully a bit clearly.

Our weekly message: Friday 11 July 2025

This week has been our Being Healthy themed week, the second of our Living and Learning themed weeks in the year. A particular favourite was our Sports Day. Here are the results:

• Key Stage 2: 1st place to the blue team, second place to the red team, third to the white team and fourth to the green team.
• Reception and Key Stage 1: 1st place to the red team, second place to the blue team, third to the green team and fourth to the white team.
• Overall: the blue team won, with the red team in second, white team in third and fourth place goes to the green team.

Sports Day is one of our end of year highlights. Despite the heat, a fun day was had by all. Thank you to everyone who came along and particularly those who helped in any way.

Home learning

Our first message this week is here for two reasons:

• to help parents of children going into Year 1 in September know about home learning
• to make sure other parents are aware of our expectations for home learning (this stems from feedback in our 2025 annual survey)

At Moortown Primary, we set out five home learning tasks for children to do:

• Reading – daily for at least 10-15 minutes
• Number fluency – use NumBots or TimesTables Rock Stars for about ten minutes each day
• Spellings – daily for 5-10 minutes
• Talk Time – weekly for about 15 minutes
• Living and Learning– weekly for about 15 minutes

Altogether, this varied diet of home learning totals about 35 minutes each day (that’s allowing for a day or two off). Read our Home Learning Policy. This includes a Homework Guide which you might want to print off and keep somewhere for easy reference.

Summer production

The Year 6 leavers’ production of ‘We’ll Meet Again’ was a huge success. Well done to all of the children and staff involved in putting on a wonderful performance. Thank you, also, to all of you who managed to attend. We hope you enjoyed it.

Governance

For those of you interested to read more about our Governing Board, the Sphere Federation Annual Governance Statement for 2024-25 has been published.

We do still have a vacancy on the Governing Board. Please mention this to any friends or relatives! Anyone interested should contact the chair of governors, Mrs Rachel Cooper: rachelcooper@spherefederation.org

That’s a date!

At Sphere Federation, we like to be organised because we know many of you do, too. That’s why you’ll find most of the key dates in our calendar for 2025-26. Because we’ve got these planned in so far in advance, there’s a small chance one or two might need to be changed (we’ve not had to do this very often this year!). Well over 50 events are listed, including:

• Christmas events
• Class assemblies
• Easter productions
• Early Years events such as Stay and Learn sessions
• all our Living and Learning statements (with improved prompts for continuing the  learning at home)
• Living and Learning themed weeks (Me and My Money and Staying Safe)
• Living and Learning themed days (Anti-bullying day and Safer Internet Day)
• National assessments
• Productions across the year
• Watch us while we work sessions (so you can see some teaching and learning in core skills like Reading, Writing and Maths)
• Topic review sessions (come and and see the learning in Art and Computing)
• Some online presentations (Y6 SATs and residential; Y1, Y2 phonics and early reading; online safety)
• Parent-teacher meetings (in October and February)
• Photographer (for individual and class photos)
• lots of events to celebrate Reading
• Sports Day

Safeguarding over the Summer break

During the Summer holiday, you might have a concern about a child that you feel needs acting on. In term time, we would encourage you to share the concern with us at school but this isn’t possible when school is closed.

Here are some options for you if you have any concerns:

• During office hours: You can call Children’s Social Work Services on 0113 222 4403 (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, except Wednesdays when they’re open from 10am). You can also discuss your concerns with someone who works with children and families, such as your health visitor or your GP
• Out of office hours: If you think a child is in immediate danger call the police on 999
• Our Federation Safeguarding Lead will also be picking up emails. You can contact her using our safeguarding email address: stayingsafe@spherefederation.org

Talking of summer, don’t forget…

Our Summer competition

The aim is simple: capture or create a smiley face to sum up our happy and healthy place to learn! We want you to stay alert to happy and healthy faces all around you… and take a pic of any hidden smiley faces in your surroundings: a day out at the beach might include creating a smiley face in the sand, for example! We’re sure you and your child can do than our suggestion (look for the smiling face!)…

Look out for things around you that show a hidden smiley face – a happy and healthy face – or encourage your child to create their own from things around them (pebbles, leaves, Lego…).

To enter, email your pics to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org by Monday 08 September. Enter ‘Summer competition’ as the subject. All entries will be displayed in a happy and healthy display in school, and there are prizes for our favourites.

Next week’s our last week of the 2024-25 school year. The last day of term is Friday 18 July (it’s a non-uniform day). If your child’s in Year 6, we’re looking forward to seeing you for our Leavers’ Assembly on Wednesday at 2.15pm.

Our weekly message: Friday 04 July 2025

You should have received your child’s annual report this week. Please contact your child’s teacher if you’d like to discuss the report – your questions, comments and concerns are important.

This week’s message has a few repeats of previous messages so you’re prepared…

Themed week: Being Healthy

Next week is the second of two themed weeks in the year. Here are a few reminders.

• Children should wear PE kit throughout the week, but please make sure it follows our Uniform Policy:

• Travel actively to school! For the chance to win a voucher, send your photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org by Thursday 10 July.
• Monday 07 July 2:20pm: You’re invited to watch the children’s skipping skills with Skipping School.
• Thursday 10 July is our Sports Day: Key Stage 2 from 9.30-11.30am, Reception and Key Stage from 1 1.30-3.00pm. The event is at Roundhegians Rugby Club – use the entrance from Chelwood Drive, LS8 2AT
• Friday 11 July 3.00pm: a d:side representative will be in the playground ready to answer any questions you might have about the drug education sessions taking place for all classes.
• We’re raising funds for our school charity, Yorkshire Air Ambulance with our Personal Best Challenge – you can donate via the Gateway app a £1 minimum donation
• Pupils have an online health questionnaire at home for their homework.

To help us continue with themed weeks such as this, we’re asking for a small contribution: £2 per pupil (Gateway) will help us to pay for visitors for themed weeks. Visitors include Skipping School, British Military Martial Arts, Tatty Bumpkin yoga & mindfulness, City of Leeds Basketball, Hello Hip Hop, d:side health charity & Foot-tech. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far.

Production

Don’t forget our Key Stage 2 Summer production next week, too. There are two performances:

• Tuesday at 6.00pm
• Wednesday at 6.00pm

Teachers next year

With the end of term approaching, it’s time to let you know of a few changes in staffing for the new school year.

As some of you may know, Miss Wilson (Year 6) is pregnant. She’ll start her maternity leave early in September. To replace Miss Wilson (but not in Year 6). we’ll be welcoming a new teacher to the Moortown team, Mr Volpe.

We’re also saying goodbye to Mrs Lake – she’s moving from Moortown Primary to another Sphere Federation school. Mrs Palmer, who already works in the federation, will be joining us in September.

The final update is that Miss Kidd, one of our fantastic teaching assistants, is starting a year of teacher training; she may be back later in the year for one of her placements so watch this space!

In September, the teaching staff will be:

• Reception – Mrs Wood
• Year 1 – Mr Volpe
• Year 2 – Mrs Palmer (M, T, W); Mrs Taylor (Th , F)
• Year 3 – Miss Birch
• Year 4 – Miss Newman
• Year 5 – Mr McGriffiths
• Year 6 – Miss Goswami

Your child met their teacher yesterday. We’re sure they’ll have lots to tell you about it.

That’s all for this week. Before we end, here’s an idea if there’s a summer birthday in your household…

Herd Farm is a council-run activity centre offering a range of outdoor activities and pursuits for both adults and children. They’ve recently launched a Birthday Adventure Offer which they’re trialling during the summer holidays. Interested? Check out this video clip.

Meet the teacher

With the end of term approaching, it’s time to let you know of a few changes in staffing for the new academic year.
As some of you may know, Miss Wilson (Year 6) is pregnant. She’ll start her maternity leave early in September. To replace Miss Wilson (but not in Year 6), we’ll welcome a new teacher to the Moortown team, Mr Volpe.
We’re also saying goodbye to Mrs Lake – she is moving from Moortown Primary to another Sphere Federation school. Mrs Palmer, who already works in the federation, will join us in September.
The final update is that Miss Kidd, one of our fantastic teaching assistants, is starting a year of teacher training; she may be back later in the year for one of her placements so watch this space!
In September, the teaching staff will be:
Reception – Mrs Wood
Year 1 – Mr Volpe
Year 2 – Mrs Palmer (M, T, W); Mrs Taylor (Th , F)
Year 3 – Miss Birch
Year 4 – Miss Newman
Year 5 – Mr McGriffiths
Year 6 – Miss Goswami
Your child met their teacher today. We’re sure they will have lots to tell you about it.

Our weekly message: Friday 27 June 2025

We start with a few questions this week…

Have you noticed our outside clock isn’t working? It was faulty and we’re getting a replacement (under warranty). It will hopefully be with us and fitted over the summer holiday.

Do you know someone who’s lost a hearing aid? We’ve found one and it’s in the school office.

This weekend, why not pay a compliment or two?

Our Living and Learning statement this week…

…has been I can say one good thing about myself.

Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself. These feelings can change as things in your life change, such as going to a new school or becoming a brother or sister. Does your child recognise their strengths? Do they know subjects at school they’re strongest at? Outside school, do they know what skills are they especially good at? Just as importantly, what are their strengths in their character?

At home this weekend, have a chat about strengths. Think about questions such as:

• What are they?
• How did they become strengths – practise or a natural talent or luck?
• How can we maintain them?

Attendance matters

This year, the government introduced new measures to tackle unnecessary term-time absence.

• Since August 2024, the fine for school absences across the country has been £80 if paid within 21 days, or £160 if paid within 28 days.
• If a parent receives a second fine for the same child within any three-year period, this will be charged at the higher rate of £160.
• If there’s a third time, other action like a parenting order or prosecution will be considered. If you’re prosecuted and attend court because your child hasn’t been attending school, you could get a fine of up to £2,500. 

Leeds has issued 7,410 penalty notices so far this year and will continue to issue notices across Summer. This figure includes second fines for some parents following two separate periods of absence in the year. It doesn’t include situations where there is a third instance because this results in legal action.

At Moortown Primary, attendance for the vast majority of pupils is good. Thank you for avoiding unnecessary term-time absence.

It’s time to get your thinking caps on for the return of our Summer competition. This year, it’s the return of smiley faces to sum up our happy and healthy place to learn!

Our Summer competition

Over the Summer weeks, we want you to stay alert to happy and healthy faces all around you… and take a pic of any hidden smiley faces in your surroundings: a day out at the beach might include creating a smiley face, for example! Here’s our suggestion (look for the smiling face!)…

…but we’re sure you can do better!

Look out for things around you that show a hidden smiley face – a happy and healthy face – or encourage your child to create their own from things around them (pebbles, leaves, Lego…).

To help you get started, look out for some intended smiling faces like McCain Potato Smiles or commercial logos with a hidden smile but they’ll be too obvious to win the competition!

To enter, email your pics to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org by Monday 08 September. Enter ‘Summer competition’ as the subject.

All entries will be displayed in a happy and healthy display in school, and there are prizes for our favourites.

Phenomenal piano playing

One of our Y4 friends is showing amazing talent in his piano playing (playing one of J.S Bach’s preludes). He has been awarded the 2nd place winner in the Rising Talents of Europe International Music Competition this year – impressive stuff! He was very pleased and really enjoys learning Bach’s baroque pieces.

Thank you to everyone who donated an item for the Summer Fair today. We’re looking forward to welcoming you all to the fair on Friday 04 July at 3.15pm. There’s still time to buy tokens on Gateway but you can use cash if you’d prefer. It’ll be great to see you there.

As we approach the end of the year, the next few weeks are busy ones – please keep an eye on our calendar. Next week…

• the annual report for your child will be emailed – the day for this depends on your child’s year group
• on Thursday, your child will meet their 2025-26 teacher
• also on Thursday, for parents of pupils in Year 2, there’s a Ready to Read celebration assembly
• on Friday, we welcome you to our PTA Summer Fair

Have a happy and healthy weekend.

Our weekly message: Friday 20 June 2025

Have you completed our annual survey yet?

If you have – thank you. We’ll spend time over the next few weeks considering what you’ve said (and making sure we pass on any compliments).

If you haven’t, there’s still time! We’ll close the survey at 6pm today. Complete the Moortown Primary survey here.

Vacancy

We’ve a vacancy for a Senior Administrator here at Moortown Primary. Hours are negotiable but around 23.75 hrs per week, term time plus two days (11.45am – 4.30pm, Monday to Friday). Read more about the post.

Sports Day

This year’s sports day takes place on Thursday 10 July 2025 at Roundhegians Rugby Club LS8 2AT.

• Key Stage 2: 9.30am – 11.30am
• Reception and Key Stage 1: 1.30pm – 3.00pm

If weather conditions mean we have to change the date, the reserve date is Tuesday 15 July with the same timings.

Spectators are welcome and access to Roundhegians Rugby Club is from Chelwood Drive. Please bring your own seating. We will walk the children to Roundhegians on the day so if you’re able to help accompany the children, please let the office know.

For sports day, our teams will be green, blue, white and red. Your child will be told what colour team they are in. If possible, please could your child wear a t-shirt matching their team colour.

Please ensure your child has their water bottle and a cap/hat at school. It would also be useful if you could apply sun cream before your child comes to school.

Normal lunch time and end of school collection arrangements will still apply on this day.

Happy and healthy highlights

Well done to the Year 2 class for winning their skipping festival this week. This is the third year in a row our Year 2 class have achieved this. All the class worked hard as a team to earn as many skips as possible in their individual and group events. Dexter’s 99 single bounce skips in 30 seconds certainly helped to contribute to our winning total!

We know it’s technically a month or so too late, but we love this Moortown Maypole tradition! Our Reception friends are learning how to dance round the maypole. There is much perseverance, practice and patience needed (and that’s just the staff!) but the smiles show how much the children enjoy it.

Our Reception children will showcase their skills to open the Summer Fair on 04 July at 3.15pm. 

Staying with the happy and heathy theme…

Back in the Autumn term, our DT: Food project in Key Stage 1 was to make fruit smooothies. More recently, a homework task was to to prepare some food at home. Here’s a great example…

Our weekly message: Friday 13 June 2025

Every half-term, we have a new topic in Key Stage 1 and 2. (Check out the Class News page for what’s happening in our Reception class.)

What is this half-term’s topic?

Design and Technology is the driving subject for this half-term and it’s a great topic to finish the year! The focus for all classes this year is construction (next year, it’s textiles). Children will be busy designing and making products using different materials.

A key aspect of the Design and Technology curriculum is the understanding that products don’t just get made. Instead, they go through a design process that includes three key elements:

• evaluate
• design
• make

Think of this process as a cycle. For example, Sphere Motors want to create a new family car. Before the car is made, they need to evaluate existing products and talk to customers so that they’re clear about what the new car needs to have. They will then design the car and evaluate those designs. They may make a prototype of the car to help them evaluate the designs. Next, they’ll decide on a final design that will go into production and get made. This finished product will be evaluated and the whole process starts again.

Each phase has age-related specific knowledge, skills and vocabulary that they’ll learn, use and apply across the topic. See page 14 and 15 of the Topic Curriculum Guide.

Years 1 and 2

Children will be introduced to the design process (design, make, evaluate). They’ll then look at some badly designed products and identify why they are badly designed. Following this, they will set up and perform tests to see what types of shape make strong and stable structures. They’ll then work as groups to create structures out of paper which may be strong enough for a child to stand on. After this, they’ll use the knowledge and skills gained to design and make a chair for Baby Bear from Goldilocks. They’ll design, make, test and evaluate the chair.

Years 3 and 4

Children will be reminded of the design process before learning about design criteria. They’ll look at different products and identify what the design criteria were for each product. They’ll also learn about a pioneering British female designer called Caroline Haslett. Following this, they’ll be given their design brief and design criteria for their project: create a prototype go-kart using TechCard. They’ll investigate existing products before designing, making and evaluating their go-karts. An extra challenge will be to integrate an electric circuit to make their go-kart move.

Years 5 and 6

Children will begin the topic by learning about some different pioneering female engineers. They’ll then look at different bridges and list the design criteria for these bridges. After that, they’ll be introduced to their project for the half-term: create a vehicle for Eggy (the egg). The vehicle will need to meet specific design criteria agreed by the children. One of these design criteria will be about safety. Pupils will investigate different safety features in cars and this will lead to them creating designs for their own cars which have some safety features to protect Eggy. They’ll then make them using different tools. Finally, they’ll put the vehicles through some rigorous tests to evaluate them.

How can you help?

Talk to your child about what they’re learning in class. The Class News page of the school website is a good place to go to find out more about what the children are doing.

The school library and local libraries will have some books about Design and Technology which your child will be able to borrow and develop both their reading skills and design knowledge.

Finally, check out BBC Bitesize KS1 and BBC Bitesize KS2 plus all programmes on CBBC and CBeebies with a Design and Technology focus:

• Bitz and Bob
• Grace’s Amazing Machines
• Junk Rescue
• Maddie’s Do You Know?
• The Dengineers

Our weekly message: Friday 06 June 2025

We hope you had a happy and healthy half-term break.

Have you had a chance to complete our short annual survey? It’ll take just five minutes or so. You’ve still plenty of time – the closing date is Friday 20 June.

Themed week: Being healthy

Our next themed week is the week beginning Monday 07 July. This is the second of two themed weeks each year.

Learning will be based around how to be healthy physically and emotionally.  A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of Living and Learning.

Drug education

D:side will deliver drug education sessions to all classes. Information for parents and carers about these sessions will be available from d:side on Friday 11 July from 3.00pm-3:30pm. Weather permitting, you’ll find Dave in the main playground.

Sports Day

As part of the week, you’re invited to watch your child take part in our annual Sports Day:

• Thursday 10 July
• Key Stage 2: 9.30am – 11.30am
• Reception and Key Stage 1: 1.30 – 3.00pm
• Roundhegians Rugby Club, LS8 2AT

Personal best challenge

Our Junior Leaders have suggested for all children to take part in a fundraising personal best challenge event during the week. Money raised will go to our school charity, Yorkshire Air Ambulance. We request a £1 minimum donation for this event which can be made on School Gateway.

Healthy way to travel to school

This themed week is a good opportunity to think about a healthy way to travel to school. We encourage children to use an active and sustainable method of transport, maybe parking further away from school (Marks and Spencers offer car park spaces to park and stride), scooting, biking or walking to school. We’d love to see their active travel photos (send photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org by Thursday 10 July). There will be a prize draw at the end of the week for children to win a voucher.

Can you help?

If your job involves an aspect of health and you can support our Being Healthy themed week by coming into school, please contact the office to pass on your details.

A few other things…

Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, we’re inviting you to make a small contribution: £2 per pupil will help us to pay for visitors and ensure themed weeks like this one can continue in the future. If you choose to contribute, you can do this on School Gateway. Thank you for your support with this.

Due to the nature of the activities planned, children are allowed to wear PE kit all week. Please respect our Uniform Policy for what to wear on PE days.

We’ll keep you up to date about events during the week on the Class News pages on our website.

Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy and healthy school.

Staying safe in the sun

Now that summer’s here, it’s important to remember to stay safe in the sun. Please remember to apply sunscreen to keep your child safe.

Every day matters

Our whole-school attendance figure is 95.2%. This means we’re above national figures: 93.3% for all schools and 94.9% for primary schools.

All the classes are above the 93.3% national figure. Particular well done to Year 3 and Year 4 children…

• Reception: 96.2%
• Year 1: 94.2%
• Year 2: 94.7%
• Year 3: 97.2%
• Year 4: 97.6%
• Year 5: 96.6%
• Year 6: 97.8%

Thank you for making sure your child attends school as much as possible.

Well done…

One of our Y5 friends has been selected to be part of Opera North next year, performing in different parts of the country. This is an amazing opportunity – hopefully, she’ll remember us when she’s famous.

Our weekly message: Friday 23 May 2025

Happy half-term! We can’t believe we’ve reached the end of Summer 1 term so quickly.

Targeted training

We’ve the third of five training days in school today. On training days like this, the teachers across Sphere Federation gather together and benefit from training that’s age-specific. This means that teachers in each phase (Early Years, Years 1/2, Years 3/4 and Years 5/6) receive training that helps to support their teaching in specific age groups. Today, teachers have been planning, practising and preparing for three different subjects: PE, DT (Design and Technology) and Maths.

The training our teachers receive was recognised by Ofsted in all three of the school’s inspections:

• ‘Professional development for all staff is exemplary. Leaders have planned high-quality training.’ (Moortown Primary, March 2024)
• ‘The professional development available for all staff is of high quality, and they appreciate the collaborative support shared among the schools in the federation.’ (Scholes (Elmet) Primary, May 2024)
• ‘The school ensures that staff receive regular, high-quality training and development. This contributes to staff having excellent subject knowledge across a range of subjects.’ (St James’ CE Primary, January 2025)

The last two training days are on Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 July, meaning the Summer 2 term ends on Friday 18 July.

Uniform update

Every year around this time, we review our Uniform Policy. You’ve told us in previous annual surveys you like to have the policy well in advance so you can start to prepare for the new school year. Read the 2025-26 Uniform Policy. There are a couple of minor changes:

• additional guidance around footwear – choose shoes that are safe to run around for healthy, active playtimes (eg avoid Crocs)
• additional guidance around hair accessories – hair bands, bows and other accessories should be minimal: as small as possible and not too bright

Talking of uniform…

Top tip

Are you thinking of having your child’s ears pierced? Please do this at the start of the summer holidays to allow for healing time. Advisors recommend no earrings are worn for PE. We expect children to remove earrings before the lesson and put them back in after the lesson. This will be carried out by the child. If they’re unable to remove or put their earrings back in by themselves, they must not wear them on the day they have PE.

Well done…

This week, a group of our Key Stage 2 pupils took part in the Brownlee Foundation Mini Triathlon event at John Smeaton. This is always a popular and oversubscribed event and it introduces the children to the elements of triathlon – a swim, a bike ride and a run.

Well done to all the children for taking part, showing great determination and supporting each other. Check out the pics on one of the Y3/4/5/6 Class News pages.

Happy and healthy place to play

The recent lovely weather has seen The Green being used to its full potential. There have been some great examples of cooperation and different age groups playing together. Here’s a mini-world that some of our children spent a whole lunchtime creating. Great to see this during lunchtimes!

Finally this week… Have you completed our annual survey yet? It’ll only take a few minutes.

Have a happy and healthy half-term holiday.