17th October 2025
Good afternoon everyone and we hope you have had a great week; we certainly have been busy at school this week! We have been especially busy electing and training our new pupil champions! Growing and developing our pupil’s leadership skills has been an important part of our school development journey and we have been delighted by the children’s recent responses, as they have shown loads of enthusiasm and interest!
As you know, a few weeks ago we announced our new Sports Champions. This week on Wednesday, they received a day’s worth of training from a specialist coach at Beyond the Physical. During the day the children learnt new skills and games. They worked together to practice and use them before they designed their own sports games. Later on in the afternoon, Mrs Jeff (Our PE Lead) brought her class (Team Ouse) out onto the playground for the new playleaders to practice with them. They were absolutely fantastic and they have already had a huge impact on providing fun and active games on the playground for all of our children! Thank you Sports Leaders!
Also this week, we announced and held our whole-school Class Champions elections. The role of a Class Champion is primarily to represent their teammate’s views and ideas to the class champion council or directly to the class teacher, and to help improve the school environment, enrichment and classroom learning. As a Class Champion, they will work closely with their teacher and their friends to gather pupil voice around a range of upcoming events, ideas and curriculum planning sessions. They will meet with me once a fortnight to discuss these things and feed into our school development planning; I can’t wait for them to get started after half-term! I’m sure you will join me in passing on huge congratulations and thanks to all of them.
Thank you for your support this week with parent consultations online; we hope you found the time with your child’s class teacher helpful. Coming up, please note that we have an Autumn Disco next week after school on Thursday, which can be booked on Parent Pay. We also hope you can join us if you are available next Friday for our Zamble African Dance assembly at 2.30pm to see the children perform!
Thank you for your continued support and have a great weekend, Mr Greene
Attendance :
Update
Our school target is 97%
This week our attendance was : 95%
Nidd – 95%
Aire – 94%
Ouse – 95%
Derwent – 94%
Foss – 100%
Calder – 93%
Humber – 94%
Dates for your diary:
| Sunday 12th October 2025 | Applications open for applying for Reception places
NYCC website link for School Admissions https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/education-and-learning/school-admissions/starting-primary-school-and-junior-school |
| Monday 20th – Wednesday 22nd October 2025 | Team Foss Residential to Willersley Castle |
| Wednesday 22nd October 2025 | Team Ouse trip to Ledston Estate Forest School |
| School Open Evening for Reception Intake 2026
4:30pm – 5:30pm |
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| Thursday 23rd October 2025 | Teams Esk and Nidd trip to Ledston Estate Forest School |
| Thursday 23rd October 2025 | Autumn/Halloween Disco – Party clothes or fancy dress is welcome for the event, but nothing scary please! £2.50
Esk/Nidd/KS1 immediately after school until 4pm KS2 (Yr3-Yr6) 4.15pm – 5pm Please pay using Parentpay |
| Friday 24th October 2025 | Zamble Dance Workshops – each class to take part in African dance workshops throughout the day to celebrate Black History month |
| Parent Assembly – Zamble Dance – Parents and carers, please join us to see what your children have been learning with a performance at 14:30 in the hall. | |
| Friday 24th October 2025 | School Breaks Up 3.15pm |
| Monday 27th October 2025 – Friday 31st October 2025 | Half Term Holiday – School Closed |
| Friday 31st October 2025 | Application deadline for applying for High School Places |
| Monday 3rd November 2025 | Back to School |
| Friday 7th November 2025 | Team Derwent Sharing Assembly 2.45pm. Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| Monday 10th November 2025 | School Individual Photographs |
| Friday 14th November 2025 | Training Day – School closed to pupils |
| Friday 19th December 2025 | School Breaks Up 3.15pm |
| Monday 22nd December 2025 – Friday 2nd January | Christmas Holiday |
| Monday 5th January 2025 | Training Day – School closed to pupils |
Please ensure you pre-book school lunches and breakfast club on Parentpay 48 hours in advance of the day required.
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