Friday 28th November 2025
This week in school the children in Team Calder have been working on their sewing skills in DT. They all tried really hard and Miss Reeder was so impressed that they received a whole-class ‘wow’ for resilience! It looks like they had fun and made lots of progress – well done Year 5!
On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of taking pupils from Key Stage 2 to another inter-school Sports Competition at Selby College. This time we took part in Sports Hall Athletics, which involved pupils taking part in a range of track and field activities against 6 other local schools. They represented the school really well and they did really well! Well done team, we are very proud of you! Thanks to Mrs Caffrey and Mrs Jeff for organising the event.
On Thursday, we had the pleasure of welcoming in the North Yorkshire Music Service this week to deliver a Music Showcase Assembly! The children were treated to performances by professional musicians who showcased a range of instruments from the families of brass, woodwind, string and percussion. They are a talented group and the children loved hearing and naming the different instruments! As a follow up, if your child is interested in finding out more about what their service provides and they would like to explore a new instrument, please find out more information further down on the newsletter. Thank you to our Music Lead, Mrs Everett for organising this.
Hopefully you have seen our letter this week about our performance and sharing offer for this academic year. We are really looking forward to giving children some exciting performance opportunities this year and we can’t wait to share with you as parents and carers. To support, we have also included dates as far as we can at this point up until Easter for you to add to your calendars. Alongside our seasonal events, open doors and celebrations of learning, we hope you can join us!
Finally, this week we launched our new Instagram page for Brotherton and Byram CP Academy! We hope you have had a chance to see our new Instagram page; if you’ve not had a chance to follow us yet, then please follow us @bandb_school to see your children’s learning and get reminders about upcoming events and activities. Please note, that this is a private page and you will need to request to follow us before a member of staff authorises the request. This replaces our old page on ‘X’ and we hope you find it useful and interesting!
Thank you again for your continued support, Mr Greene
Want to see learning across Brotherton and Byram Academy?
Follow us on our new Instagram page!
(Please note: This is a private page so you will need to request to follow us).
Replacing our old ‘X’ feed, take a look at our new Instagram page from Monday 24th November 2025 to see what each class is learning about and get regular reminders about upcoming events and activities!
Update
Our school target is 97%
This week our attendance was : 95%
Nidd – 95%
Aire – 88%
Ouse – 98%
Derwent – 95%
Foss – 98%
Calder – 95%
Humber – 96%
Dates for your diary:
| Wednesday 10th December 2025 | Early Years Christmas Nativity Performance 2pm in school. |
| Monday 15th December | KS2 – Carol Concert 2.40pm School Playground |
| 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.
