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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…