23rd October 2026

Dear Families, Sorry that this letter comes today instead of yesterday. We had a SIAMS inspection at Warthill yesterday, as well as Parents’ Evening and so my time was taken up with the inspector all day. Thank you to anyone who offered support yesterday and/or agreed...

9th October 2026

Dear Families, Welcome to the end of another week…. You will have or will be receiving communication about our Parents’ Evening. For a variety of reasons, these will take place in both schools at the same time, on Thursday 22nd October. As I can only attend one venue...

25th September 2026

Dear Families,Firstly, I must thank you for your understanding and many offers of help and support following a tricky start to the school year due to a number of external factors.Mrs Naylor, of course, remains at home and has been very appreciative of kind words and...

10th September 2026

Dear Families, Welcome back to the Autumn Term. I hope you enjoyed the summer holidays and were able to spend quality time with loved ones. We would like to welcome our new starters in both schools and hope they are already feeling settled and at home. As some of you...

Summer 2026

Dear Families, We have made it to the end of term! Since the last newsletter we have had a number of events. While I am reluctant to talk football now….the community viewing of the England game when both our schools came together, with bacon butties, was a tremendous...

3rd July 2026

Dear Families, I hope that you have had a slightly cooler week. I am aware that the football match England v Mexico is looming on the horizon. Time zones have made this World Cup somewhat difficult for our children to follow easily and this match is a challenge for us...

26th June 2026

Dear Families,I wanted to thank you all for bearing with us in the heat this week. While closing the schools is not something I considered, ensuring that the children have been safe and as cool as possible has been our priority. We have been ensuring that sessions...

12th June 2026

Dear Families, I have been asked to share the following link with you: http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/thebigfuture Firstly, I have been made aware that the switch we have been forced to make from our previous school operating system, Scholarpack, to Arbor may...

22nd May 2026

Dear Families, Rather unusually, we have a beautiful forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend and so I hope that you have something lovely planned! We have had a busy last week of term and the most notable day being Wednesday when we had our combined Class 3 and Juniors...

17th April 2026

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...

Newsletters

24th October 2025

Dear Families, Following a half term where we have focused on the value of generosity, we have experienced this in abundance from our whole school community. As you know, the combined total to send to Nathan at LAB Charity was £200 and we were also able to send items...

17th October 2025

Dear Families,We have had another very busy week in both our schools. After a lovely sharing assembly last week at Sand Hutton, this morning it was the turn of the children at Warthill to celebrate their values and achievements. Well done everyone! Thank you to both...

10th October 2025

Dear Families,I hope that you have enjoyed the return of the sunshine this week as we have. It is also wonderful to have staff well at last. Long may it continue! As you may be aware, at the beginning of the school year, the Governors and I agree a set of priorities...

26th September 2025

Dear Families, Many thanks again for your understanding over the last two weeks with regards to staff sickness, which has affected both settings, and the power cut at Sand Hutton which impacted school lunches. I am hoping the situations will be more settled moving...

Newsletter 12th September 2025

Dear Families, Is it only the end of week two? What residential visit? When is it the weekend? No seriously, what a fantastic week two. I know we have some tired children heading into this weekend (and staff) but what a few days we had (with ALMOST amazing weather!)...

Newsletter 5th Sept 2025

Dear Families, Welcome back or welcome to our schools and I hope that everyone had an enjoyable summer break!Please find attached to the email the safeguarding information for September which I know people are finding really helpful.I have some news to share with you...

11th July 2025

Dear Families, Such a lot has happened in both our schools since my last newsletter! The Gold Reading Ambassadors from Sand Hutton, Miss Heffernan and I visited Waterstones with a budget for both our schools. Together the children chose a hamper of books for both...

27th June 2025

Dear Families,What a FABULOUS week!Thank you to Mrs Drysdale for organising an excellent federation Sports’ Day at Sand Hutton, on Monday afternoon. The weather was absolutely perfect in the end and we were all able to enjoy lots of races. Thank you to all those who...

6th June 2025

Dear Families,What a busy week the first week back has been!Today, the children from Warthill are enjoying workshops and theatre tours at York Theatre Royal. We can’t wait to hear about that! I’m only sorry I was unable to join them. Thank you FOWS for arranging and...

23rd May 2025

Dear Families, Sadly, this week the newsletter opens with some upsetting news. We have had reports recently of the school site at Sand Hutton being used out of hours. Obviously, the site isn’t supervised in the evenings or at weekends and I can see the temptation....