Friday 14th February 2025
Safer Internet Day
This week across the school we have been learning about Safer Internet Day, which we launched during a whole-school assembly. We have been talking to the children about how amazing the internet is and how it can help us all to access information and entertainment. This Safer Internet Day we are starting a conversation about how to spot, respond to and report all types of scams online. Our focus has been on awareness of scams, what they may look like and how they may make us feel. Year one looked at a social story about a child called Samira who experienced a scam pop up when playing a game. Team Aire thought about how it made Samira feel initially when she thought she could get new rewards (excited) and then how it made Samira feel her dad told her it was a scam which is unsafe (worried). For further tips and information on ensuring your child is safe online please find the following information: https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2025/tips-for-parents-and-carers
In the wider offering at Brotherton, MicroBit Club have been using online software to create code. They have been working on a project using variables and conditionals to create the game ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’. For example, when you shake the microbit, it generates a number between 1 and 3. If it generates 1, it shows a picture of paper. If it generates 2, it shows a picture of a rock and if it generates 3, it shows a picture of scissors. Next week the children will be downloading their code onto the MicroBits to test it out! The children are really excited about this club and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Catterall, our Computing Lead, for running it!
In other news, Thursday 6th March is World Book Day and we will be celebrating in school by having a non-uniform day and a fancy-dress competition. All children (& staff!) are invited to come into school dressed as their favourite book character and there will be prizes for each phase of school. There will be lots of activities going on during the day, including Reading, Writing and Baking in every class. We are also going to have a book swap in the library: children are invited to bring in a book that they would like to swap for another book. Please can children bring their book into school and pass it to their class teacher ahead of World Book Day. Each child that brings a book will be given a token by their teacher to take part in the swap during the day.
Thank you for all of your support this term; we are really proud of all the hard-work of the children and continue to look forward to working with you in partnership next term. We hope you have a good break of the half-term next week! Mr Greene
Attendance:
Update
Our school target is 97%
This week our attendance was 95%
Nidd – 93%
Aire – 91%
Ouse – 93%
Derwent –94%
Foss – 98%
Calder – 91%
Humber – 89%
Dates for your diary:
| Friday 14th February 2025 | 3.15pm School closes for half-term break. |
| Monday 17th February to Friday 21st February 2025 | Half-Term – School Closed |
| Monday 24th February 2025 | Back to school |
| Wednesday 26th February 2025 | National Coal Mining Museum Trip – Years 3 / 4 / 5 |
| Friday 28th February 2025 | Team Ouse Sharing Assembly 2.45pm.
Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| Monday 3rd March 2025 | Team Foss Sharing Assembly 2.45pm.
Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| Thursday 6th March 2025 | World Book Day
Non-uniform day & fancy-dress competition: all children are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite book character! |
| Friday 7th March 2025 | Team Derwent Sharing Assembly 2.45pm.
Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| Friday 14th March 2025 | Teams Esk and Nidd Sharing Assembly 2.45pm.
Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| Tuesday 18th March 2025 | BB Celebration of Learning Event (Spring Term)
15:30 – 16:30. Ahead of our parent consultations next week, please join us after school to come and see your child’s learning in their classroom. |
| Friday 21st March 2025 | Red Nose Day – non uniform – donations can be made on Parent Pay. There will also be a competition if children want to dress up as their favourite hero.
There will be a prize for the winner from each key stage |
| Team Calder Sharing Assembly 2.45pm.
Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
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| Monday 24th March – Thursday 27th March 2025 | Parent Consultation Meetings – online all week – dates for each class teacher to follow. |
| Thursday 27th March 2025 | Team Aire Sharing Assembly 2.45pm.
Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| Friday 28th March 2025 | School Closed for a training day |
| Monday 31st March 2025 | Easter Service 2pm in Church |
| Friday 4th April 2025 | Team Humber Sharing Assembly 2.45pm.
Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| 3.15pm Break up for Easter | |
| Monday 7th April 2025 to Monday 21st April 2025 | Easter Holidays – School Closed |
| Tuesday 22nd April 2025 | Back to School |
AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS 2024/2025
Please ensure you pre-book school lunches and breakfast club on Parentpay 48 hours in advance of the day required
