Our first day back at school established that everyone
was delighted to be back (that was just the parents) and most pupils appear
to have had a very good summer break.
My holiday was so good I did not find the time to
subscribe to the Sept. issue of the magazine. However, everyone is keen to
get this term moving including our Parent Support Group.
We have already had a very good AGM with some good ideas
suggested for the coming year. The year 6 pupils have been out on their
bikes for a day of cycle training and this will eventually enable parents to
decide if these pupils are capable of coming to school on a bike.
We have a duty to give our pupils as many opportunities
as we can to develop skills and ideas that will help them become better
citizens and better school members. The School Council has met already this
term and is looking at many suggestions for enhancing school life.
Our Harvest Assembly is open to all the usual supporters
of school but this note may be too late for some of you so you will have a
surprise parcel from us towards the end of the month.
Although we have made progress with our involvement in
Leeds Healthy Schools Standard we have always had a strong ethos of a
healthy mind in a healthy body. Our pupils have been taking part in a Walk
to School Week and we are very pleased with the efforts many parents and
children are making. I hope this can continue but the coming winter weather
may put some people off walking to school.
Class 4 will soon be offered the opportunity to go on a
residential field week to a centre in the Yorkshire Dales. The week will be
an exciting opportunity to take part in activities that will take the
children over the moors and underneath them in cave systems with qualified
personnel. We hope all of the class will be able to go. Read the newspapers
and watch TV and we are told it is too dangerous/risky to get out of bed.
How did our generation ever grow up without compensation money from
litigation because of “accidents”?
We have begun another year building on the links with our
local churches and Wednesday morning assemblies have started well.
Two letters were waiting for us when we came back to
school this term. Both letters were from Education Leeds and both letters
were congratulating us on our school . One was pleased to see that we have
been obtaining some very good results in our national tests this year and
the other was from a supply teacher who had written to the Chief Executive
at Education Leeds to say what an excellent experience he had had teaching
in our school during the Summer Term. Both letters were passed around the
staff and shared with parents. What a good start to the term.
