9th July 2024

Dear Families, A midweek newsletter this time. I’m not trying to catch you out I promise! Last week, I was out on Friday with Mrs Darling to celebrate the success of the Read Write Inc programme on phonics, and then I spent the weekend enjoying two Summer Fairs. Both...

28th June 2024

  Dear Families, Happy Friday Everyone! We have enjoyed a lovely sunny week in our schools which was a relief given that it was SPORTS’ DAY! We really enjoyed seeing both our school communities coming together for this event. I do hope that you enjoyed it as much...

24th June 2024

Dear Families, This is a somewhat delayed Friday newsletter as Friday proved to be an exceptionally busy day at the end of an extremely full week. Last week was one of those weeks when I felt incredibly lucky to have the job I have. This is not because I spent one day...

14th June 2024

Dear Families, We have had an exciting week in our schools and we are looking forward to some adventures next week! Two lots of sharing assemblies has meant that we have been able to celebrate our children, in and out of school. If you haven’t already seen, please...

10th May 2024

Dear Families, Despite it being a short week, this has been a very busy time for us. You may or may not be aware but we have had significant staff absence and this has impacted on both settings. Some of this i.e. covid, will resolve itself naturally, however, we do...

Newsletter 3rd May 2024

Dear Families, I hope that you are looking forward to a long weekend. I am not sure it will be wall to wall sunshine, but we have had a brief glimpse of sunshine and increases in temperature this week. It has felt promising! Thank you Mrs Darling for organizing our...

Sand Hutton Ofsted Report

Dear Families, We are absolutely delighted to be able to share Sand Hutton’s latest Ofsted report. As you may be aware, Sand Hutton was the subject of a short inspection just over a year ago and subsequently there was the decision to return, within 12-24 months of the...

Newsletter 26th April 2024

Dear Families, We enjoyed a lovely Sharing Assembly at Warthill this morning. It is always such a joy celebrating the various successes of our children. One of the things our children are really good at is writing and especially creative poetry. This week Miss...

Newsletter 22nd April 2024

Dear Families, First of all, sorry this is late! Friday was a bit busy! We had a wonderful week in our schools last week which spread over into the weekend. We are still waiting for our Sand Hutton Ofsted report. The timeline takes account of working days and so the...

Newsletter 12th April 2024

Dear Families, Welcome back after the Easter holidays and welcome to our Nursery children who have settled in to Sand Hutton like they have always been there! First of all, I have some wonderful news. Mrs Madge is happy for me to share that she is expecting a baby!...

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22nd December 2023

Dear Families, We have made it to the end of a very long Autumn Term. Happy Christmas to you all! We have had a lovely week and our schools have been very Christmassy! This week it was the turn of Warthill pupils to share their nativity. Fireside Nativity was entirely...

15th December 2023

Dear Families, This week has been very Christmassy with the first of our Nativities at Sand Hutton. The two productions of Whoops-a-Daisy Angel were magical. The whole school together in song. We also featured the Steel Pans with Mrs Naylor playing for the evening...

1st December 2023

Dear Families,I hope you have enjoyed the snow this week and haven’t been too adversely affected.There are some key bits of information to share with you today. Firstly, we are really sad to say thattoday has been Heidi Hall’s last day in our kitchen. We know she is...

17th November 2023

Dear Families, Firstly, thank you to anyone who sent in donations for Children in Need. The day is looking colourful and exciting! Today has been sharing assembly at Warthill and we have enjoyed celebrating successes and awarding Corinthian medals. Thank you for...

Absence Impact Letter

Dear Parents, I am sending a separate letter regarding attendance/absence. I think this serves as a useful reminder and I am sure you will remember having received something similar before. Currently, there are a number of children in both schools whose attendance I...

11th November 2023

Dear Families, Welcome Back! I hope you all enjoyed a fun filled half term break. The children were full of stories about their Halloween and Bonfire Night celebrations so it certainly sounds like it. We are glad to have everyone return to us after the holiday safe...

27th October 2023

Dear Families, Happy Half Term Everyone! I think it has been a long half term and everyone, mostly the children, is ready for it! As it was Harvest in both our schools this week and Harvest is about giving thanks and showing appreciation, I thought it was vital for me...

13th October 2023

Dear Families,  It has been a quiet week in our schools this week although we have enjoyed a lovely sharing assembly at Warthill this morning. As well as being able to hand our medals to our Corinthian Ambassadors, we were treated to a violin recital by Elsie. Well...

6th October 2023

Dear Families, I hope that you have had a lovely week. We have been busy again in both our schools and are well into the swing of the Autumn Term. In Class 3 at Sand Hutton the children are incredibly excited that he author of the book they are studying has replied to...

18th September 2023

Dear Families, Apologies that today’s newsletter has been delayed.Despite the weather not looking favourable at the beginning of last week, we managed our Morning of Sport at Warthill following a lovely first sharing assembly. The children had clearly had busy summers...