Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• A New Sports Court

  Mon 29 Mar 2021

  We want to create a new sports court, with excellent drainage which provides a great facility for sports coaching all year round.

   

  Our current sports court floods with the slightest bit of rain, making it unusable for PE lessons and at breaktimes. Post-covid, we want to ensure that our children have access to amazing outdoor spaces which allow us to deliver first class PE teaching and provide more opportunities for sports and fitness. 

  We are raising funds to improve the drainage on the school sports court, and to resurface it with a specialist tufted grand play surface - making it the perfect place to develop a range of sports all year round. We want our children to grow up with a love of sports, and to develop their skills on first class facilities and with first class equipment. 

  We have already raised £8000 and are working with grant funders to try to identify further funding to help us reach our £15,217.50 total. 

   

  You can contribute to this worthy cause here: 

  https://www.rocketfund.org/holmesportscourt?tk=7f50990687af377cbf1d2046ed8de872a6bfbb8b 

• Dukehouse Wood

  Wed 17 Mar 2021

  Dear Year 5 & 6 Parents,

   

  Re: Dukehouse Wood Residential

   

  As you know, children in Year 5 and 6 were due to go on their residential in September, but as a result of Covid restrictions, this was rescheduled to the end of April.

   

  I can now confirm that the trip in April is unable to go ahead as the government restrictions do not permit school trips of this type at this time.

   

  I have had extensive conversations with Dukehouse Wood and we are confident that we will be able to offer the trip at the later date of the 5^th-9^th July. We believe that government restrictions will have lifted by then and that we are able to offer a safe residential experience for the children by keeping the children together as a bubble, having our own separate accommodation (away from other schools), and by all staff (both from the school and the centre) using lateral flow testing.

   

  I am really pleased we are can still plan to go ahead with the trip, as I think the children need something to look forward to and it will be a great end to Primary School for those children in Year 6.

   

  Please can I ask that you now continue to make payments towards any outstanding balances you have for the trip. These can be found on your Scopay account and can be paid in instalments. Please ensure that all payments are made by the 11^th June. If you are experiencing financial difficulties, or have any questions then please do not hesitate to get in touch.

   

  Best Wishes,

   

  Craig Dewar-Willox

  Headteacher