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….

16th May 2025

Dear Families,    Many of our children have undergone assessments this week outside of the Year 6 SATs. All the children have taken these in their stride and so a big well done. However, I must further congratulate the attitude and maturity of all Year 6 pupils…

6th May 2025

Dear Families, Apologies for such a delayed newsletter. It has been a very busy return after the Easter holidays and Fridays in particular have been very full! We were very fortunate at Sand Hutton to be visited by two lambs to cuddle and feed on the first Friday…

Easter Newsletter

Wishing you all a very happy and sunny Easter Holiday!   Thank you to everyone who attended one of our Easter Services in church this week. I hope you enjoyed our new Easter singing. Children in both schools were in excellent voice! At Warthill on Tuesday, the…

28th March 2025

Dear Families,   What a fabulous Spring Week! I have very much enjoyed seeing the sunshine last week and I believe there is more forecast for us all this week! Thank you to anyone who supported our Mothering Sunday Refreshments in school. It was super to be able…

21st March 2025

Dear Families, It has been lovely to have seen some sunshine this week!Following Parents’ evening at Sand Hutton last week, it was lovely to see so many of you at Warthill.I wanted to mention a small change to sharing assemblies for the next term. I want to give…

14th March 2025

Dear Families, I hope you have had a good week. It was super to see so many Sand Hutton parents this week for Parents’ Evening and I am looking forward to the same at Warthill next week. A couple of questions came up which I thought I could share answers to in a…

Newsletters

14th February 2025

Dear Families, February Half term seems to have come around fast! I hope you are looking forward to some family time. It always feels like the days are getting longer and we can feel the beginnings of Spring. We have had a busy half term and we are mindful that World…

31st January 2025

Dear Families, First of all, an apology for a couple of dry weeks newsletter wise. The week before last you received your online safety update for the month and last week was quite a Friday! Thank you for your understanding. We continue to face some weather associated…

10th January 2025

Dear Families, Happy New Year and welcome back to the start of the Spring Term. We all hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas break. Already busy busy busy on the first week back starting with a mid-week trip to Sheffield Arena for Young Voices 2025! This is…

Christmas Newsletter 20th December 2024

Dear Families, HAPPY CHRISTMAS! We have made it! The end of term has arrived and I hope that you are all looking forward to a happy festive family time with loved ones. Thank you for your thoughtful and generous gifts, for the staff room and for individual members of…

13th December 2024

Dear Families, We are racing towards Christmas now and I feel that it has fully started. Monday evening saw the Warthill children enjoying a Christmas themed cinema night. Thank you to FOWS for arranging this and providing snacks for the children to enjoy. The next…

29th November 2024

Dear Families, I can’t believe that we have already reached the end of November. Where has this term gone? Please see attached the December Safeguarding newsletter. We know that 2 classes at Sand Hutton enjoyed some outdoor visits away from school this week. They were…

Online Safety Newsletter November 2024

Do you need suggestions on age appropriate games? You could use either of the following websites to search suitable games. Remember, PEGI rates the gameplay so whilst it is important to review age ratings, you must also check if it has a communication feature as this…

15th November 2024

Dear Families, We have had a really lovely week this week and we have positively noticed lots and so have the children in one another. They may come home with coloured bands attached to their book bags etc, so that you know what they have been noticed doing well….

8th November 2024

Dear Families, Welcome back to the half term that leads us into Christmas! I hope that you were able to relax a little over the break. I do have quite a number of pieces of information to share with you today. Firstly, another thank you. Our many shoeboxes have been…

24th October 2024

Dear Families, We have made it to the end of a very long half term and I know that your children are tired. I hope that you have a restful half term planned before we begin the Christmas Term. We have had a really fabulous time throughout this, our well-being week….