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!...

Newsletters

10th February 2023

Dear Families, Happy Half Term! We have had quite a half term and this week has continued to be full of enjoyable learning. Before I mention this week’s events, I must thank the children on behalf of all the adults, who attended and enjoyed Young Voices last Friday....

3rd February 2023

Dear Families, What a busy week we have had! The visit to Howsham Mill was enhanced by the arrival of kayaking Olympians which was quite a treat! Everyone was very chatty about the day and it is so great to have a visit with a Science link. The visit to Elvington Air...

27th January 2023

Dear Families, I must start my newsletter this week with more thanks. Thank you to families from both schools who have shown their kindness and support following the publication of the SIAMS report at Sand Hutton and the announcement of an Ofsted Inspection this week....

20th January 2023

Dear Families, I hope that you have had a joyful week with this crisp winter sunshine. I have even had snow at home…not enough to make a snowman though! Our children have all had a super week with lots of hard work and fun in all our classes. At Warthill, the Infant...

16th January 2023

Dear Families,Firstly, my apologies for not getting a newsletter out to you on Friday. SandHutton underwent a SIAMS Inspection (Church of England Inspection).The outcome of the inspection is confidential at the moment. However, thereport will be shared with families...

Happy New Year and Welcome Back

I do hope that you all enjoyed a fun filled Christmas break and that all our children are bursting with good health, ready for the Spring Term. We have a full house in both schools today! While still on the subject of Christmas, I would like to take this opportunity...

Christmas Final Letter

Dear Families, I know that the previous Newsletter was ‘the last’ but here is another. There was just more to be said! I had to say how wonderful our Christmas Dinners were in both our schools. Mrs Naylor and I enjoyed both very much!!! Many, many thanks to Mrs Hall...

2nd December 2022

Dear Families, It is December and beginning to look a lot like Christmas in our schools. The first of our Nativities will be at Warthill next week. We are so looking forward to this being in church with all of you. The children are impressing me with their incredible...

25th November 2022

Dear Families, Welcome to another newsletter. These seem to come round faster every week somehow. Maybe it is because we seem to be packing in so much in the approach to Christmas. We were all very disappointed at Sand Hutton this week when the visit from the Bird of...