Thursday 13th November 2025
This morning, we received an exciting phone call from the Producer of BBC Look North asking if they could call by this morning to pay us a visit with Pudsey from Children In Need! To support the charity, Lindsay Burrow and their presenter Amy Garcia took part in ‘The Thousand Mile Challenge’ and they asked if they could come and say hello. Today, they have walked from Castleford to Selby and tomorrow they are walking over 20 miles with their legs tied together! It’s such a wonderful cause and we were absolutely delighted to be able to go out to the front of the school to cheer them on!
As part of the stop-off, the children were surprised by a visit from Pudsey himself! They loved meeting him and cheering on Amy and Lindsay. Our visitors and the production team were blown away by the children’s energy and enthusiasm; they all represented the school really well! We hope you can tune into BBC 1 Look North tonight at 18:30 to see them on TV! The producer also shared with me that they might be featured on BBC Children In Need tomorrow night on BBC1! Thank you to all the staff for making it happen and to all the children for their amazing energy!
In other news this week, in preparation for their next piece of writing, Team Foss received tickets to the Foss Class Circus. They became acrobats, jugglers, tightrope walkers and clowns before watching a video of a real life circus performance. Next week, they will write a diary about the whole experience.
I’ve also been absolutely blown away by the amazing Maths in school this week. It was a joy to go and see all the Maths learning in classrooms yesterday with Miss Oglesby (our interim Maths lead). We are focusing on Maths this year across the school and the children have been doing really well!
As you know, we are closed tomorrow for our next teacher training day so have a nice extended weekend and we will see you next week, Mr Greene
Attendance:
Update
Our school target is 97%
This week our attendance was : 96%
Nidd – 94%
Aire – 92%
Ouse – 99%
Derwent – 98%
Foss – 99%
Calder – 96%
Humber – 98%
Dates for your diary:
| Friday 14th November 2025 | Training Day – School closed to pupils |
| Friday 21st November 2025 | Flu Immunisations in School Reception to Year 6 |
| Team Calder Sharing Assembly 2.45pm. Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. | |
| Non Uniform day – please send in a donation for our Christmas Fundraising events | |
| Friday 28th November 2025 | Team Humber Sharing Assembly 2.45pm. Parents/carers, please join us and find out what the children have been learning. |
| Wednesday 10th December 2025 | Early Years Christmas Nativity Performance 2pm in school. |
| Tuesday 16th December 2025 | Secret Room – fundraising event where children are invited to bring in money to buy gifts for family members for Christmas. Further details to follow! |
| Wednesday 17th December 2025 | Key Stage 1 Christmas Performance 2pm in School. |
| Thursday 18th
December 2025 |
Christmas lunch
Parents are invited to join us (invitation to follow) |
| Friday 19th December 2025 | Christmas Jumper day – wear a Christmas Jumper to School |
| School closes at 3.15pm for the Christmas holidays | |
| Monday 22rd December 2025 to Friday 2nd January 2025 | Christmas Holidays – School Closed |
| 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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