Newsletter 27th June 2025

Dear Parent/ Carers, 

It has been a very positive week in school with lots to celebrate. Our annual sports day on Earls Barton Recreation ground was a great success with many positive comments and compliments. The winning house team this year was Water, led by House Captains Oscar and Chloe, and the entire house team were awarded their special medal in assembly today. Also awarded today was a special certificate for one child in each class who showed the “Spirit of Sports Day” through their demonstration of school values, sportsmanship and positive behaviours. The final results were as follows: 

-Water 140 points 

-Air 135 points 

-Fire 118 points 

-Earth 117 points 

With special thanks to Mrs Rees (PE lead) who organised this enormous event with its very complicated logistics for 460 children, staff and visitors! Also special thanks to Owen Roberts, Ashlee Warmington and the young leaders from Wollaston Academy who were a huge help in setting up and running the afternoon. 

Thanks also to the parent volunteers who accompanied the classes to walk to the rec and to all of those who supported from the sidelines and participated in appropriately good-natured cheering and engagement. 

Good news 1! 

After many months of legal discussions over the land and lease, our conversion to academy status has been finalised. Separate correspondence will be sent on Tuesday with further details of this. 

Good news 2! 

In further good news, it was confirmed to us yesterday that our new building will be ready in August and fully handed over to school in time for September! Following the flood and poor weather last autumn, the project had been granted an extension of time but we are delighted that Lindum Construction have managed the project so efficiently and effectively that all lost time has been made up and the programme accelerated to give us a summer handover. 

All five new classrooms will therefore be occupied ready for the start of the new academic year. We will share details of classroom arrangements and changes to door use shortly and there will be an official opening of the new build organised for September. 

New catering provider 

As you know, Hatton Academies Trust (HAT) will be providing our catering and daily lunches from September. The ordering for this will be via a new system called “School Grid”. Please look out for an email from School Grid on 7th July so that you can set-up your online account with them ready for September. From the time of the email, you will have 24 hours to access the link and set-up your new account. School Grid’s privacy statement is on our website on the Parents section of our website under “school meals /milk”. Also here you will find the new HAT menus which will be offered in September. 

Attendance 

Attendance this week was 95.01%. This remains below our target of 96%+ for the entire school. Please ensure that all holidays are booked in the school holiday period, that, as far as possible, all medical appointments are taken out of school time and that children are only kept at home if they are genuinely ill. 

The top three classes this week were Poppy with 98.67%, Buttercup with 99.28% and Lavender with an unbeatable 100%. 

Celebration assemblies 

It was lovely to celebrate some new subjects today in our celebration assemblies. We had a music composition superstar; a computing champion and receptive readers! The unintentional theme of today’s certificates was “wonderful writing” with many children really demonstrating excellence in their writing and demonstrating the progress they have made this year with composition, handwriting and technical accuracy. Well done also to the children chosen for Hot Chocolate Friday today. 

PTA discos 

The KS2 disco this week was a popular and well-attended event! Thanks to the PTA, as always, for leading on this and to the PTA volunteers and staff who stayed late on Thursday. The children had a great time dancing and eating lots of sweets and drinking fizzy pop! 

A reminder that next Thursday, 3rd July, is the EYFS disco is 5:00pm to 6:00pm, followed by Y1 & Y2 at 6:15pm to 7:15pm – Please send your child with £3.00 to include entrance and a goodie bag. The discos will be in the KS1 hall and all children will need to be collected by an adult. 

Pre-loved uniform 

We have a selection of pre-loved uniform of all sorts and sizes in the school office. Please do come and help yourself to any items. We just ask that you make a small donation to the PTA, if you are able. 

Lost property 

There are a large number of KS2 coats and KS1 water bottles accumulating in lost property, as well as other items. TODAY after school we will put KS2 lost property outside the school office and EY & KS1 lost property will be displayed near the KS1 entrance. Please do come and have a look as we are unable to store these items any longer. We will be disposing of unclaimed and unnamed items next Wednesday, 2nd July to charity shops / clothing bins. Also, a reminder to clearly name ALL of your children’s belongings so we can reunite them easily. Thank you. 

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.  

Miss Lally & Mr Morris 

Co-headteachers 

Letters home this week 

Bluebell class treat 

Smart phone ban – Y5 only 

Y5 trip next week reminder 

PTA KS2 discos reminder 

Suspected chicken pox in school – vulnerable families only 

Class photo proofs coming home today 

Sports day tomorrow confirmation 

Y2 Big Sleepover 

Y5 reminder for Oxford museums trip 

Spots day going ahead this Wednesday 

Y2 trip return times 

Attachments 

All Star Summer clubs 

Online safety - Nintendo Switch 2 

PTA disco EY & KS1 

HOUSEPOINTS TERM 5