Friday 9th October 2026
This week on Monday we celebrated our annual Harvest Festival together as a whole-school community in the hall. Miss Gill led the assembly and talked about the importance of our food, where it comes from and how important it is to share food with those around us. This links into our RE curriculum and the Christian celebration of Harvest at this time of year. The children also really enjoyed singing the Harvest songs including ‘Harvest Samba’ and ‘Conkers’, which are two of their favourites! Thank you Miss Gill for organising and leading this for our school!
In other news this week, the children in Year 6 have been creating some wonderful traditional Mexican Folk Art! The combined Sun and Moon face motif (Known as ‘El Sol y La Luna’) in Mexican folk art is a classic symbol representing duality and balance. Using colouring pencils, the children had a go at recreating their own sketches based on examples from Mexico. The result has been amazing and they have created fantastic art work!
Meanwhile, over in Year 3, the children in Team Derwent have been doing some fantastic singing and
learning in Spanish this week! I was delighted to go and see their learning yesterday (and their amazing singing!). The children loved the session and they were so engaged with Mrs Sadullah. Well done Team Derwent! You are making fantastic progress in Spanish!
We hope to see as many of you as possible for our Celebration of Learning next week on Wednesday 14th October 2026. At the end of the day, we will open up the school and we would like to share your children’s learning journey this year with you so far!
In the meantime, have a good weekend and see you next week, Mr Greene
ATTENDANCE
Update
Our school target is 97%
This week our attendance was : 97%
Nidd – 98%
Aire – 97%
Ouse – 95%
Derwent – 97%
Foss – 98%
Calder – 92%
Humber – 99%
School lunches and breakfast club must be booked and paid for on Arbor. Bookings should be made and paid for at least 24 hours in advance of the day required.
Pupil Lunch – £3.30 Breakfast Club – £4
Dates for your diary:
| Monday 12th October 2026 – Friday 16th October 2026 | Black History Week |
| Wednesday 14th October 2026 | BB Celebration of Learning Event (Autumn Term)
15:15 – 16:30. Ahead of our parent consultations after the half term holidays, please join us after school to come and see your child’s learning in their classroom. There will also be refreshments served in the hall alongside our uniform ‘Swap Shop’ and children’s artwork on display. |
| Friday 16th October 2026 | ‘Africa Reborn’ Story Workshops for all pupils throughout the day in phases for Black History Week |
| Monday 19th October 2026 | Autumn/Halloween Disco – Party clothes or fancy dress is welcome for the event, but nothing scary please! £3
Esk/Nidd/KS1 immediately after school until 16:00 KS2 (Yr3-Yr6) 16.15 – 17.00 Payment item is available on Arbor |
| Wednesday 21st October 2026 to Friday 23rd October 2026 | (Y4) Team Foss Residential to Nell Bank |
| Friday 23rd October | 3.15pm Break up for Half term |
| Monday 26th October 2026 – Friday 30th October 2026 | Half Term Holiday |
| Saturday 31st October 2026 | Deadline for Secondary School Applications |
| Monday 2nd November 2026 | Back to School |
| Monday 9th November 2026 | School Open Evening for Reception Intake 2027
4:30pm – 5:30pm |
| Friday 13th November 2026 | Teacher Training Day – School Closed to pupils |
| Friday 18th December 2026 | 3.15pm Break up for Christmas Holidays |
| Monday 21st December 2026 – Friday 1st January 2027 | Christmas Holidays |
| Monday 4th January 2027 | Back to School |
