Dear Families,
I do hope that you enjoyed a restful Easter break.
We have all returned safe and well and ready to learn in our schools. Some of us were even here last week, meeting Nathan, from LAB charity and hearing his inspiring words. Thank you for coming and the donations you gave. He was incredibly grateful!
Dear Families,
What a busy week we have had! AGAIN!
On Monday, we had a photographer visit our schools. He took our group photographs which means already thinking about the prospect of children leaving us and it is only March. You will receive the proofs for the photographs which you can order separately.
I took an amazing group of our children to Huntington this week to compete in a Year 3/4 dodgeball competition. In a very echoey gymnasium, with some highly competitive teams, our children played with total honesty and integrity. Dodgeball is such a fast game and relies on players taking themselves off the court when they are caught by a ball. I was so very impressed with the sportsmanship our children demonstrated. Well done those children, for showing who and what we are at Sand Hutton and Warthill!
It was World Book Day this week and I have seen many images online of children from other schools in various costumes and wondered what else they did with their day. Excitingly, I know what our children did! The day was a celebration of reading in all its various ways. Children put much effort into creating their reading-based ART GALLERIES and these are available to view, should you have the time. Very well done to anyone who contributed. To those who won, an extra special well done. We also enjoyed mixed aged reading groups, secret readers, storytelling, book cover jigsaws, reading outside in the sunshine and opportunities to share our reading favourites with others.
As the better weather sneaks in, we are seeing busier roads in front of both of our sites. Soon, this will involve the heavier farm traffic which is common in both our villages. Please be extra careful when picking up and dropping off and keep our school communities safe.
Wishing you the best weekend,
With every best wish,
Beverley Pawson
Headteacher
Sand Hutton and Warthill Federated Schools
Dear Families,
Wishing you all a very HAPPY EASTER!
This seems to have been a very short yet remarkably busy half term (well term in all honesty!) and it is wonderful to be starting the Easter break with the clocks springing forward and lighter evenings ahead.
It has been great to have been able to chat to so many of you across the parents’ evenings over the last couple of weeks and to welcome so many of you to our Easter Services in our churches. Both our services were a delightful mixture of Christian messages and celebrations. I hope that you enjoyed these as much I did.
I would like to confirm Nathan’s visit (from LAB Charity in Madagascar) as he is passing through the UK on his way to the USA. He would love to meet as many people as possible from both our schools. We will be holding an hour session with Nathan at 11am on Friday 10th April in Sand Hutton School Hall. You are welcome to drop off your children for that hour or stay and hear his stories and see the photographs of his incredible work and the ways in which our donations have supported this journey. I would like to take a collection of donations for this charity on this day and he will be sharing with us his next planned works. I realise that this is during the Easter break, but it would be great to be able to give him a big welcome. Please pop this into your diary if you possibly can.
I am sending out the safeguarding letter for April today. It is a little early I know. However, I think that there are some important messages in their which may be helpful to know over the school holiday period.
School re-opens on Monday 13th April at the usual time. Warthill Sharing Assembly will be that Friday, the 17th with Sand Hutton’s the Friday following. It is always great to welcome you to those.
Please have a wonderful Easter break, whatever you have planned and I look forward to see all the children return in April, healthy, happy and ready to learn.
With every best wish,
Beverley Pawson
Headteacher
Sand Hutton and Warthill Federated Schools
Dear Families,
It has been so very nice to feel the sunshine this week and see those signs of Spring everywhere as we head towards Easter.
This week we enjoyed meeting parents at Sand Hutton’s Parents’ Evening. It is always something I look forward to and the children like to share their successes. It has also been sharing today where there has been more to celebrate including the final decision following assessing Science non-fiction books for the Royal Society.
Last week we also enjoyed a sharing assembly at Warthill and were joined by many family members. Next week will be Parents’ Evening for them and we are all looking forward to welcoming everyone into school.
Please see below:
We do have an opportunity for the above post should anyone be interested or if you know anyone who might be interested. Please share widely, we would really like to fill this post with a suitable person.
Next week we will be inviting you to our Easter services. In both our schools, we will be starting our day in church. If your child attends breakfast club, we will walk them down to church. Please could everyone else drop their child at church. At Sand Hutton the bus children will be dropped off at church if you are unable to accompany them.
Warthill: Wednesday 25th March 9am
Sand Hutton: Thursday 26th March 9am
Also, as next Friday is the last day before the Easter holidays, schools will close at 2pm. There will be no PE lessons in the afternoon or Steel Pans. Please collect your child at 2pm. The schools will re-open on Monday 13th April. I am hoping to have news about the session with Nathan from the LAB Charity in the final email of the term.
Have a lovely weekend,
With every best wish,
Beverley Pawson
Headteacher
Sand Hutton and Warthill Federated Schools
Dear Families, We all hope that you spent a purposeful yet relaxing half term break. It is certainly quite wonderful to have seen some sunshine and felt its warmth in recent days. Long may it continue. This morning we enjoyed a sharing assembly at Sand Hutton and celebrated many successes. I must also share my thanks for the wonderful gift of one hundred pounds for pupils to choose books from a grandparent. Many many thanks! On Monday we will be having class photographs and therefore can pupils come in uniform and if necessary, bring PE kit to change into. This is also when they take the photographs for the Year 6 Leaver gifts. It seems incredible that we have already reached this point in the academic year! A note from Miss Heffernan: World Book Day will soon be upon us. This year it falls on Thursday 5th March. As always, children will participate in a range of activities across the day and much fun will be had. As ever pupils receive book tokens. The pupils have been shown which specially written WBD books they may exchange the token for. However, vouchers can also be used as part payment for any book. Further information can be found on participating bookstores using the following link: https://www.worldbookday.com/books/ We know many of you look forward to participating in our WBD annual craft too. Reading Ambassadors have suggested having a gallery this year so that creations may be kept in school for a bit longer. This way, parents may also view them. We would like to invite all of our families to create a book themed painting, collage or drawing. This should be done on card or paper so that it can be displayed in schools on the wall displays. As always, there will be a token gift for a winner in each class. Please bring artwork into schools on WBD. Classes will be given time to look and admire them throughout the day. The children always look forward to this part of the year, as do staff! Have fun!
There will also be a World Book Day themed menu provided by the kitchen on that day. The meal will be inspired by characters from various books.
Please have a great weekend,
With every best wish,
Beverley Pawson
Headteacher
Sand Hutton and Warthill Federated Schools
Dear Families,
What a miserable week weather wise! Here is hoping that next week will see some sunshine!
We have a good many bits of good news to share with you. We are thrilled to welcome a new family to Warthill and I know that our children were thoughtful enough to make the new girls’ welcome cards before their arrival. Such kindness is everything we hope our school communities stand for. I also wanted to share with you a wonderful ‘birthday gift’ that also arrived this week at Warthill. Instead of sweets, Jack donated a book that he had really enjoyed to the class library, to mark his birthday. The children were more than excited about this and then they realised that there was also a book token so they could choose another, brand new book too. Thank you, Jack, (and Mummy and Daddy of course) what a great thing to do!
In other news, we received a fabulous donation from FERA this week. Beautiful notebooks with penholders. Miss Heffernan has shared these with her class and the Warthill Junior Class as writing journals, inviting children to decorate these with stickers and bring a pen of their choice to go with them. There is much excitement!
Talking of excitement, the sharp intake of breath that we heard upon delivering the next piece of news to our children made us all smile! Miss Heffernan noticed a production of The Boy at the Back of the Class, (post SATS, 20th May), showing in Bradford Alhambra Theatre. We have managed to book tickets for Class 3 and the Junior Class at Warthill, for the 2pm performance; best seats too! In order to make the most of the day, I have also managed to secure morning tickets to the Science and Media Museum, which is a short walk away. We will need to return to school after the end of the school day but it will be an incredible day. More specific details will follow, however the theatre tickets are £11 and the museum is free! It doesn’t get much better than that!
For our sporting children, there is the Dodgeball competition. There will be federation teams of Years 3/4 and 5/6 involved in this event. It will be during the school day and so we will be able to take all children who have shown an interest. We would be really grateful for offers of transport, and/or collection. Sadly, because the event is to take place inside a school, parents aren’t permitted to stay. Please let me know if you might be able to offer transport. The Year 5/6 event is on Thursday 12th February.
I thought this would be a really brief letter today and suddenly there was much to share! Please see attached to the newsletters some LA run Saturday events for our musical children. There are 4 dates for instrumentalists and 4 for singers. Looks great!
Have a great weekend and I hope you dodge the snow!
With every best wish,
Beverley Pawson
Headteacher
Sand Hutton and Warthill Federated Schools