Weekly Newsletter

Headteacher - Mr J Parkinson

Associate Assistant Headteacher - Miss L Whale

Associate Assistant Headteacher - Mr K Reynolds

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week Year 6 have completed their SATS assessments and we couldn’t be more proud of them all. They have worked extremely hard showing dedication to their lessons all year and the outstanding progress they have made was evident in their application this week. I would like to thank all staff who helped this week to carry the tests off flawlessly and gave up their time to stay on a Monday evenings to support with the booster sessions. Each and every pupil has showed resilience and maturity this mindset will support them to tackle all assessments with similar motivation and confidence in the future.

To celebrate the end of their tests, the Year 6s had an amazing day today! They had a water fight on the school field and enjoyed a McDonalds take- out.

Gardening club planted radish seeds earlier in the year which are now ready to pick and enjoy!

Virgin Media O2 and Internet Matters have released a helpful new resource called Find the Right Words, designed to support parents and carers with some of the more difficult conversations around keeping children safe online. The video and accompanying guidance provide practical advice on how to approach topics such as online safety, inappropriate content and healthy online behaviours in an age-appropriate way.

Link - Find the Right Words.

For Parents - Steam Parental Controls

Steam is one of the world’s largest gaming platforms and is increasingly popular with children and young people. As it hosts thousands of games—some of which may not be suitable for younger users—it is important that parents and carers are aware of the parental controls available. Internet Matters have produced a short one-minute video explaining how these settings can be used to help keep children safer online.

Link - Parents video guide to Steam parental controls.

Zachary - EYFS

Benji B- Year 1

Ellie - Year 2

Benji S- Year 3

Mylie - Year 4

Seth - Year 5

All of Year 6!!

Mylie, Arthur - Year 4

For excellent Geography work.

William Taylor - Year 5

For fantastic work in Maths estimating area

Leo - Year 4

Harry- Year 4

Jacob - Year 3

Nico - Year 5

Monday 18th May - EYFS Reading Morning - 8.30am - 9am

Monday 18th May - Year 6 Residential Meeting to Parents - 5pm - 5.30pm

Tuesday 19th & Wednesday, 20th May - Year 1 Balanceability

Tuesday, 19th May - Year 5 & 6 Reading Morning - 8.30am - 9am

Wednesday 20th May - Year 3 & 4 Reading Morning - 8.30am - 9am

Wednesday 20th May - EYFS Trip to The Deep

Wednesday 20th May - Year 5 & 6 Trip to Bradford Alhambra

Thursday 21st May - Year 3 & 4 Reading Morning - 8.30am - 9am

Friday, 22nd May - Last Day of Term

Monday, 1st June - Back to School

This week's CATs Spotlight goes to Ayda - Year 4

She had competed in the Bedazzled dance competition in Sheffield with her dance school Excel Theatre Arts. Performing a number of different styles of dance & has come away with some incredible results:

🥇1st Lyrical

🥇1st Modern

🥇1st Character

🥇1st Lyrical Troupe

🥈2nd Duet

🥉3rd Tap

🏅5th Cabaret Championships

Her confidence has grown so much since she started competing in September & her hard work is paying off!

Well done Ayda!

Thank you all for your support and input this week.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Reynolds

Being a healthy school involves monitoring children’s packed lunches and breaktime snacks. Please support school by providing only healthy options for break snacks and limiting the quantity of sweets and chocolate bars brought in for lunchtime.

Please follow this link to the NHS website where you will find lots of useful information around snack choices for your children.

Healthier snacks - Food facts - Healthier Families - NHS

We appreciate your support with this

Next week we will be on Week 3 of the Summer menu.

Please be aware some of these dates may change and more will be added to the list as the term progresses. Please check your MCAS messages regularly for more details on upcoming events.

Thank you all for your generous donations to Pontefract Clothing Bank.

We are delighted to be able to share that we have received a whopping 77 bags of donations so far! Thank you all for your support in helping the community.

Due to a recent increase in demand for our Wraparound After School club, we have taken the decision to increase our capacity from 15 to 18 children per day. We hope this will help out those families that need childcare either on a regular or ad hoc basis.

If you haven’t used our Wraparound After School Club before, please drop in to the office to sign the agreement form.

The Club runs from 3.15pm-5.45pm Monday-Thursday and costs £12 per session (or £10 each for siblings).

Children can take part in games, activities, crafts and more! We also offer a selection of snacks and light bites for them to enjoy.

From next week we will also be launching our new Friday offer! Friday club will run as the rest of the week but at a discounted price of £8 for the full session, or £5 for a 4.30pm pick-up. This could be an opportunity for parents to get ready for the weekend, do some shopping or run any errands that need doing without the children there.

Places should be booked on MCAS by Friday of the preceding week, please give us a call if you need to book after this deadline and we will see what we can do.