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Head Teacher's Awards Update:
Evie - Yellow 2 - For making incredible progress with her handwriting in the first few weeks of year 2. Evie has taken great pride in her work and has even been practising cursive at home.
Ned - Yellow 2 - For blowing me away with his absolute best in writing. The progress you have made, Ned, is fantastic. Keep up the hard work.
Head Teacher's Awards Update:
Daisy - Orange 2 - For taking her time to sound out each word carefully and remembering to use capital letters and full stops in most sentences.
Rylee - Indigo 1 - For an excellent attitude to learning! Rylee has worked exceptionally hard not only on his work but on managing tricky situations.
Greasley Mourning
School continues to show their respects to the Queen, and the Royal family, using a low-level reflective approach.
Children continue to ask great questions based on their curiosity and what they are seeing through the broadcasts and media.
A reminder that Monday is a Bank holiday for the Queen's funeral
Take care, everyone!
Greasley Mourning
As the sad news of the Queen's passing came into school this morning, I knew that the children were going to be respectful, reflective and sensitive.
As a school, we decided to have informal conversations in individual classes initially to gauge the views and feelings of the children. This was also a time to consider the Queen's live and her legacy.
Children talked about the Platinum Jubilee, what they were going to misses, the changes ahead and asked some really sensible questions (some of the answers yet unknown!)
The atmosphere around school was calm and caring (not sombre and sad!)
Later in the day, we then held a whole school assembly where we discussed the Queen respectfully and held a one minute silence to 'think' and reflect.
I was so proud of everyone in Greasley Beauvale today!
The first Head Teacher's Award of the academic year goes to:
Olivia - Orange 2 - For her incredible use of phonics in an independent writing job. She also thought about her sentence construction and even started to use full stops and capital letters. What a great start, Olivia :)
Firstly, welcome back to the academic year of 2022-2023. I truly hope that you had a restful and enjoyable summer. I have visited all the classrooms since the return, and it has been amazing to see all the children back safe and well. Life in school feels energetic and it has been lovely to see everyone back together again.
Over the last week, we have welcomed our new reception starters for half day visits, and they are now in school full time – they have been great so far and a fabulous bunch to join our school. We have also introduced Miss Lowe to the Year 5 team, and she has settled in well and made a great start. We are currently seeking new TA roles and a maternity cover for Mrs Branigan who goes on her maternity leave at some point in November. More details to follow when roles have been finalised.
Before the summer, we congratulated Mrs Stevenson on her new leadership role from October half-term, and we are pleased to announce that the new SENDCO (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities lead) for Greasley Beauvale will be Miss Manson. We know that she will make a great lead for special needs across the school and will work well with parents, children and agencies. The ‘hand over’ has already started with both members of staff and I know (and have every faith and confidence) that Mrs Stevenson will share all her expertise with Miss Manson before she sadly leaves us.
I am very proud of how children and staff have returned to school, and we are in for a great year. I look forward to sharing our priorities with you over the next few weeks and months and I know this really is the year for us post Ofsted, Covid and everything that has come our way over the last few years.
We look forward to working with you over this academic year and I excited with what we have in store.