Thank you to everyone for all of their support this term. It’s been an exciting one with lots of trips, a successful Ofsted inspection, numerous visitors to school, concerts and obviously lots of hard work from the pupils. Thank you to everyone who came to visit their child’s class at the end of the day today. We hope it was a nice end to the term for them and for you.

A reminder that we break up today and return to school again on Tuesday 22nd April.

A huge well done to this half term’s Kindness Award winners and the Golden Learners. These pupils continuously go above and beyond in their learning and with their positive attitude.

This week's school attendance is 91%.

Whole school attendance so far this year is 95%.

Early Years/Key Stage 1 class of the week is 2M with 94.8% attendance!

Key Stage 2 class of the week is 4BY with 96% attendance - well done!

Once more, here is the link to the attendance page of the school website which has information on the Penalty Notice system. Ultimately, more than 2 penalty notices could result in the council taking you to court and a criminal record. We really do not want any of our families to have to go through this.

Attendance | Low Ash Primary School

Tuesday 22nd April - School re-opens

Tuesday 22nd April - Nursery school trip (morning Nursery children and half of all-day Nursery - Afternoon Nursery is closed on this day)

Wednesday 23rd April - Guiseley parents' evening for new Year 7 pupils

Thursday 24th April - Guiseley parents' evening for new Year 7 pupils

Friday 25th April - Nursery school trip (afternoon Nursery children and half of all-day Nursery - Morning Nursery is closed on this day)

Friday 25th April - Dogs Trust workshop (in school) for Year 4

Monday 28th April - Network Rail assembly for Years 1 - 6

Wednesday 30th April - Reception Base 1 school trip

Wednesday 30th April - Year 3 Egyptian workshop (online)

Thursday 1st May - Reception Base 2 school trip

Monday 5th May - School closed - Bank Holiday

Monday 12th May-Thursday 15th May - Year 6 SATs week

There were some absolutely amazing egg creations seen in school yesterday. We were all really impressed with how creative the pupils are! Below are a few of the entries - there are simply too many to put in the newsletter but you will find more images on our Facebook page. Winners were announced today in assembly.

I now know what I will be spending a day of the Easter holidays doing with my own children!

Our Reception classes put on a wonderful art gallery for parents and carers yesterday, inspired by the work of David Hockney. Just look at some of their wonderful paintings.

We shared with you last week that Safa, one of our year five pupils, had been shortlisted by the T&A for the star pupil of the year award. Last night Safa, her family and some members of staff went to the award ceremony. It was a fantastic evening. We are pleased to report that Safa won the award and is now officially the T&A Education Awards star pupils! Reporting from the event will be in the T&A on 10th April. Well done Safa!

We love to hear positive stories about our pupils linked to things they have taken part in outside of school. This week we received a lovely email from the Friends of Martin House children's hospice in Ilkley commending Dom, one of our Year 5 pupils, on his work. "Dom came along to help his mum with the hot chocolate bunny activity.Their table was extremely popular and very busy for the whole session and some great bunnies were created for the children to take away and enjoy at home. Dom was so pleasant, helpful and polite at all times. He engaged beautifully with the children and their parents/carers. He also stayed behind to help with the tidying up. He is a real credit to himself, his family and as a representative of your school."

Well done Dom! If ever anyone has any stories to share with us about the good work the pupils are doing outside of school, please email the school office.

Our budding musicians did a fantastic job on Tuesday at the Rocksteady concert. They have worked really hard on their performances and put on a good show for the whole audience. We look forward to the next one.

It wasn’t just our rockstars that had all the music fun this week. The choir had the opportunity to sing at a local nursing home. The residents always love a visit from the children and, as always, they did us proud!

Year two were incredibly lucky this week and had a visit from 'Fire fighter Jonny'. They got to try on the uniform (including a new style of helmet) and learnt all about the job of a fire fighter. The pupils all even received a fire fighter's hat to take home with them. Thank you very much fire fighter Jonny!

We know the school holidays can be an expensive time so, below, you will see a list of places which are offering free/reduced priced meals for children during the Easter break.

We've still got a long way to go to reach our target! Please support us if you can. All money raised will go to school to enhance our provision for the pupils further.

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Well done to the under 11 football team who travelled to Blakehill Primary this week.

As always, it was a very close match, with both teams playing some fantastic football. Low Ash took the lead early on and, although Blakehill came very close to scoring in the second half, in the last 5 minutes, Low Ash managed to catch Blakehill on the counter attack, with our Year 5 pupil Cairo scoring twice and the game ending 3-0.

Players of the match:

George

Zac

All of the guides we share with you can be found on the Online Safety Page of our school website. We update this each week with a new guide.

As the holidays are approaching and pupils might be on devices more often, below is a link to the Internet Matters 'Game Safe' article.

Internet-Matters-Gaming-Guide-to-support-young-people.pdf

You will also find April's online safety newsletter below which, amongst other things, has some information linked to the Netflix drama 'Adolescence'.

Happy Easter to those celebrating and a Happy Vaisakhi to all the members of our Sikh Community. We will see you on Tuesday 22nd April.