Posts by Kate Byrne

Dear parents and carers,   I hope you all had a restful, happy and relaxing half term, free from germs!   I am extremely proud to finally be able to share with you the outcome and report from our recent Ofsted inspection, on the 4th and 5th of October 2023.   Many parents/carers will know…

Dear parents / carers   As you know, Year 4 will have the opportunity to take part in a residential visit to Weardale Activity Centre next March!  We very much hope that all children who want to will take up this amazing opportunity.     Weardale Adventure Centre offers fun and learning in an area of…

Dear parents and carers, I hope that you and our children have all had a happy, restful and fun summer break from school.  It’s a shame that the weather hasn’t been kinder to us all and I hope that none of you were affected by the Air Traffic Control chaos earlier this week.   Reinforced…

Dear parents/carers,   This is just a quick message to let you all know about some significant and necessary roof work which is taking place throughout our school summer holidays.  In preparation for this vital work taking place, scaffolding has begun to be installed around our main school building this weekend.   We have been…

Following on from the last webpost, these are the classes for September 2023! Mrs Henderson and Miss Owen will continue teaching in the Nursery and the KEEP next year. Current teacher/class                                 Classes and teachers from September  Nursery/KEEP       …

Dear parents and carers, We are nearly at the end of the school year, which means we are already working hard thinking about and preparing for September.  It has been great to revert back to normality this year and finally leave COVID behind us.  I thought it would be helpful to send you some information…

Dear parents and carers,   I wanted to update you on some positive changes that we have made during our latest INSET day. Over the coming weeks we will be working with our children across school to help them understand these changes and the reasons for them.     Positive behaviour  As of today we are…

We hope that you all have a special, happy and magical Christmas.  We are all more than ready to enjoy this much deserved and precious time with family and friends.  It has been an exceptionally long Autumn term, as it has been 15 weeks long!   Thank you for all of your support with our…

Children are very welcome to come into school on Friday 9th December 2022 in a Christmas jumper or non uniform, as it is Christmas Jumper Day nationally.  Please do not feel you need to go and buy a jumper, own clothes are also absolutely fine.  But as it’s a national event we’d like to join…

Miss Owen – Nursery Unfortunately Miss Owen has been extremely poorly this week.  Earlier in the week she was admitted to hospital with sepsis.  As you may know, sepsis is a dangerous and potentially life threatening infection.  I am therefore very relieved to be able to tell you that she is now recovering and has…