Low Ash Primary

Welcome back! The final half term of the year has started with a bang and has been as busy as ever. Most year groups have been undertaking their Art and DT units this week amongst many other things. This week we also welcome back Mrs Petty, our Early Years Practitioner, who has rejoined us following her maternity leave.

The summer term is a very busy one! We have listed many of the important dates below. Some dates will be added over the forthcoming weeks as final things are confirmed so please keep your eyes peeled!

Tuesday 16th June - 1B school trip

Thursday 18th June - FOLA Father's Day Secret Room

Thursday 18th June -1W school trip

Thursday 18th June - New pupils to reception parents' evening

Saturday 20th June - Staff fundraising event - 5km inflatable race

Tuesday 23rd June - New to Nursery parents' evening

Wednesday 24th June - 3M school trip

Thursday 25th June - Reception Base 1 trip

Friday 26th June - 3B school trip

Wednesday 1st July - Meet your new teacher day in school

Thursday 2nd July - Reception Base 2 trip

Friday 3rd July- 2E class trip

Monday 6th July - 2P class trip

Monday 6th July - Year 6 only - family breakfast

Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th July - Year 6 residential

Thursday 9th July - Nursery to Year 5 summer discos

Friday 10th July - School reports sent home

Week beginning 13th July - Healthy Schools/Sports Week

Tuesday 14th July - Family breakfast with parents and carers

Tuesday 14th July - SEND and Inclusion parents event from 9.30

Wednesday 15th July (after school) - School summer fair

Thursday 16th July - Year 6 leavers' disco

Sports day dates:

Tuesday 14th July - Reception - 9.15-10.30

Wednesday 15th July - Nursery AM and Nursery All Day - 9.00-10.15

Wednesday 15th July - Y3 & Y4 - 10.30-12.00

Wednesday 15th July - Nursery PM and Nursery All Day - 2.00-3.15

Thursday 16th July - Y5 & Y6 - 9.15-10.45

Thursday 16th July - Y1 & Y2 - 1.45-3.15

Y6 Show

Tuesday 14th July - 10.00-11.00

Tuesday 14th July - 6.00-7.00

Wednesday 15th July - 9.30-10.30

Monday 20th July (pm) - Year 6 leavers' assembly

Monday 20th July - School finishes for summer

Well done to the 397 children who have had 100% attendance this week.

This week's school attendance is: 94.4% - this is sadly the lowest we have had for a while.

This year's attendance to date is 95.3%.

Early Years/ KS1 classes of the week is 2E with 98.3% attendance.

KS2 class of the week is 4BY with a fantastic 100 % attendance!

A reminder that, as a school, we are aiming for no less than 96% attendance. Our whole school attendance is creeping closer to that figure.

I saw the following, sent from another school, but it resonated with me given the reactions of some parents and carers when members of staff have had to reach out to them. For that reason, I thought I would share some of the words:

"When a teacher reaches out to you, it is never to complain for the sake of complaining. It is because your child matters to us. We understand that hearing difficult things about your child can feel uncomfortable, but the school and parents/carers are not on opposite sides. We are a team.

Your child may come home with one version of a story, but every situation has many layers. Before reacting, we ask that you listen calmly, ask questions and trust that we want what is best for your child.

Discipline is not punishment. Guidance is not negativity. Sometimes the hardest conversations are the most important ones."

We ask that you try to remember these words in future if having conversations with members of staff. Thank you for your support.

A reminder, as shared earlier in the year that, from September, the school day for pupils from Reception to Year 6 will end at 3.15 as opposed to 3.25. We will of course remind you again at the end of the term and the start of the new one!

Nursery had a fabulous muddy day at The Wilder Wood on Tuesday. All the children really embraced the full forest school experience and took part in lots of activities.

These included wood scraping, sawing, hammering, drilling, making bees out of fir cones, making insects, making butterflies, tyre climbing, tyre swing, mud kitchen, den building, dress up, bird house, bubbles, water play, swings, slide, fire starting, parachute games, eating homemade pancakes in the morning and their own toasted marshmallows and the s’mores made by themselves on the camp fire in the afternoon!

It was a brilliant day!

On 20th June, a group of staff from Low Ash will be taking part in their second fundraising challenge of the year - the UK's biggest 5K inflatable challenge. If anyone would like to support us, please click on the link below to donate. So far, we have raised just over half of our £1000 target.

Following this event, look out for further information about an event for pupils during Healthy Schools Week.

Money raised will be going towards a 'Scrap Shed' to enhance our outdoor play provision even further.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lowash2026?utm_medium=CF&utm_source=CL

We are excited to announce that we have managed to secure external funding for a creative arts specialist to join Low Ash for one day a week next year. This is through the charity Artis. Artis is a programme which matches primary schools to a creative learning specialist who will use music, drama and movement to bring to life classroom themes – and develop children’s curriculum knowledge and support wider school priorities, including oracy and wellbeing.

This is a wonderful opportunity!

A massive well done to year 6 pupil Cole, who represented Bradford in cricket last weekend.

A fantastic achievement!

This week, as opposed to an online safety update, we are sharing a guide on how to be safe around water. This is as a result of the shocking number of children's deaths in water over the past few weeks.

We also led assemblies with pupils this week on being safe around open water.

A reminder that all of our guides can be found on the online safety page of the website.

Online Safety | Low Ash Primary School

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you on Monday.