Newsletter 13th June 2025

Dear Parent/ Carers, 

We have had a lovely week of learning in school. Reception classes continue to enjoy their Forest School experience. We also took a group of Key Stage Two girls to a cricket tournament where they represented our school brilliantly and showed all of our school values. 

Our Year Five and Year Six children welcomed a visitor in from Northamptonshire police on Wednesday to talk about the dangers of knife crime and to give them some useful tips and strategies about staying safe. 

Next week is a busy week with our Year Five children singing at the Castle Theatre on Wednesday, plus two trips out next Friday: Year Two are heading to Old Hunstanton seaside bright and early (7:45am meet at school!) and Lavender class are visiting Everdon centre for a special Forest School Day. Please be extra careful when dropping children off and collecting them when coaches are taking children on school trips. 

Academisation update 

We are currently still on-track for an academy conversion date of 1st July, subject to some final legal paperwork regarding the lease with North Northamptonshire Council. After this date, you will not notice any significant changes to the day-to-day life of our school but we will keep you informed about our ongoing work with Hatton Academies Trust (HAT) and the benefits they will bring to our school. 

Catering news 

The first benefit HAT will bring is their in-house catering service which will cater for all of our children’s lunches with effect from September. We have given notice to Kingswood catering who will cease to be our lunch provider at the end of the summer term. 

In July, we will share with you the very exciting and delicious-sounding new autumn term menus and details of how these can be ordered from September. I am confident we will see an improvement in food quality and service from the HAT catering team who have ambitious longer-term plans to cook all of our food here, on-site, every day. 

Junk Modelling  

As part of the EYFS curriculum, the children have access to junk modelling and a creative station daily where they have the opportunity to safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques to build creations using their imagination! To support us with this, we have collated a document for any donations from home that you may have to support us with this. Please find this attached and please read this carefully for the 'Yes please!' and 'No thank you!' donations. You can bring donations to the EYFS classrooms at the beginning or end of the school day or the school office at any time. Thank you. 

Attendance 

Attendance this week was 96.01%. We had three classes with 100% attendance this week – Daisy, Poppy and Lavendar. Well done! 

Celebration assemblies 

Thanks to Mr Stockham and Mrs Bryan who led Celebration Assemblies this week and enjoyed sharing in the children’s successes in their academic learning and in showcasing School Values.  

We led separate “Bartonian Blooms” assemblies this week where we were delighted to awarded red (any 7 activities completed), and even some orange (14) and yellow (21) petal certificates to children who have been very busy completing their Bartonian Blooms passport activities. Please keep up with these; our mantra is “little and often, it’s not a race”! We will do another round of passport checks, interviews and certificate-giving in July before the summer break. 

PSHE drop-ins 

Thank you to the parents who attended our PSHE drop-in sessions to learn more about the Relationships and Sex Education teaching we cover this term. We hope you found these useful and reassuring. 

PTA discos 

Our fabulous PTA have organised discos for the children this term, please see attached fliers. On Thursday 26th June KS2 have their disco with Y3 & Y4 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm and Y5 & Y6 at 6:15pm to 7:15pm – Please send your child with £2.50 entrance and tuck shop money – just £1.00 is plenty to get a snack and drink.  

The following Thursday, 3rd July, the EYFS disco is 5:00pm to 6:00pm followed by Y1 & Y2 at 6:15pm to 7:15pm – Please send your child with £3.00 to include entrance and a goodie bag. 

Both discos will be in the KS1 hall and all children will need to be collected by an adult, no children will be permitted to walk home alone. 

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.  

Miss Lally & Mr Morris 

Co-headteachers 

Letters home this week 

Class photos next Friday 

KS2 parents’ PSHE information session reminder 

Music lessons next year – Y2 – Y5 only 

Lunch reminder for Y2 seaside trip 

Class photos reminder 

Y3 parent invitation DT dips and dippers 

Y2 seaside trip reminders 

Attachments 

Generative AI safety 

Inclusion Tea and Talk 23rd June 

Junk modelling donations 

PTA disco flyers 

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