Welcome back to the new academic year. The children have all started to settle in well and are busy doing team building activities so they get to know their new class mates and their new teachers. In addition to the 30 children joining us in reception this year, we also have another 6 children joining us in other classes around the school.

We are delighted to welcome our new Deputy Head, Lorraine Stewart, as well as our new Higher Level Teaching Assistants and some hugely talented new teachers - Miss Dawe, Miss Gibbons, Mr Ellis and Miss Siu. Miss Holdsworth and Miss Hughes are off on maternity leave at the moment so they will be rejoining us later in the year.

This year we have a higher level teaching assistant in every class and we are also continuing to split the classes into smaller groups in the morning for literacy and numeracy lessons so the children get even more personal attention. Our current adult:pupil ratio is currently 1:8 - something that you would normally only get in fee paying schools.

We have an exciting programme of activities planned for this academic year. Keep visiting the website for details of coming events and news articles.

Summer Works - ICT

As the school is becoming more and more popular, we have started to run out of space. After much deliberation, we decided to decommission the KS2 ICT suite during the summer holidays so it could be turned into a classroom. Instead we have built new mini-ICT suites at the back of each classroom - each with 4 computers. These, combined with the new laptops, mean the children can use ICT during all of their lessons instead of having to wait until the ICT suite is free.

During the summer holiday, we have also installed a new projector and screen in the downstairs hall so the children can watch videos during wet play and we have also had a large screen put up in reception so we can keep you up to date with the plans for the new school and also show clips from some of our events.

Summer Works - Building

We have had a huge amount of building/maintenance work undertaken during the summer holidays. Blackout blinds have been installed in most of the classrooms to cut down on the glare from the windows so the children can see the smart boards clearly, new panels have been installed in the nursery toilet, new urinals created in the junior toilets, doors painted throughout the school, a new fence erected behind the dining hall and new storage areas created. Additionally the school has been scrubbed from top to bottom and the windows cleaned - something we have been wanting to do for a long time.