Posts by Kate Byrne

Dear parents and carers, We are very excited about having all of our children back and seeing them all on Monday!  Although returning Nursery children restart on Tuesday.   Whilst we are very hopeful and optimistic about what the year ahead will bring, the rise in cases in Scotland since schools have gone back is something…

Margaret Noutch – lunchtime superviser and OOSC member of staff I am writing to let you know that after many, many, many years Margaret Noutch is leaving us and is retiring.  Margaret has been a wonderful member of both our lunchtime staff team and also, in more recent years, of our OOSC team. Margaret will…

So two more sleeps before our amazing Year 6 children leave us for their next adventures!  We very much hope that they are having a lovely last week and are all enjoing the different things that are happening this week.   Pizzas tomorrow As the children are due to have pizzas and ice cream tomorrow,…

Dear parents and carers,   North Tyneside currently has a significant increase in COVID cases.  It has just been announced that there are almost double the number of COVID cases than last week. Thank you SO much to the overwhelming majority of parents and carers whose children are isolating, who have followed PHE advice to…

Dear parents and carers,   I am writing to express my extreme concern and also to update you on the Year 5 PCR COVID test results.   Y5 children and families choosing to ignore the direction to isolate We are aware as a school and have also been contacted and informed that not all Year…

Dear parents and carers,   I sent some brief information out to you earlier today, in order to update you at the earliest opportunity.  As it was the weekend I was out with my family.  Now I am back at home with full IT access, I thought it would be useful to give you more…

Dear parent / carer   As you may already be aware, some national COVID restrictions are set to ease on Monday 17th May.  As a result, we are also able to change some of the rules we have in place as a school.  However, many restrictions remain in place for the moment in line with…

You will no doubt remember our little boy Frank from Reception class, who I wrote to you about recently.  I shared with you that we were going to be developing our outside spaces in memory of Frank and that we would do it all as a surprise for our children.  Frank absolutely olved being outside…

Dear parents/carers, We were over the moon on Monday night when we heard the news that all of our children can return to school again on Monday 8th March.  We simply cannot wait!  Please tell all of your children how very excited we all are!   All children in all year groups can return as normal…

Critical Worker Provision (CWP)   As you know we have been inundated with requests for Critical Worker Provision (CWP).  We very much understand that many of you will struggle if we cannot offer you a place.  However, being eligible does not mean we have endless places to offer.  We can only offer as many spaces…