Weekly round up

We can't quite believe we are now half way through the final half term of the school year. Finally, though, although short lived, the sun shone and it felt like summer! It has been another busy week at Low Ash with the Year 3 visit to Fountains Abbey and the Reception trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

This week's school attendance is: 93.9%

The classes of the week are 2M and 5B both with 99.3% attendance.

We aim for 96% attendance but, currently, are falling short of this every week. We continue to have numerous requests for holidays from school. A reminder that we are unable to authorise any leave of absence for pupils unless there are exceptional circumstances.

On Wednesday, our advisor from OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) came to present us with our OPAL platinum award. We are very proud of our playtime provision and are pleased this has been recognised. As we shared before, we are the first school in Bradford to achieve this award. We still have so much more we want to develop outdoors though so the journey does not stop here!

Mr. Singh - our play learning mentor- had an interview with the T & A and a photographer visited school. Look out for Low Ash in the paper in the forthcoming days!

Next week, all pupils will have the chance to meet their new class teacher. Below is a list of the current classes and where they will move next year.

Nursery teacher - Mrs Horne

Reception teachers - Mrs Robinson (Assistant head)/Miss C Gray and Miss G Gray

Current Reception - a separate Ping will follow explaining the classes for next year. The Year 1 class teachers will be Mrs Painter and Miss Burton.

1P (Mrs Painter) will move to 2W (Miss Waddington)

1RW (Mrs Robinson and Miss Waddington) will move to 2M (Mr. Midgley)

2B (Miss Briggs and Mrs Young) will move to 3M (Mr. Moorhouse)

2M (Mr. Moorhouse) will move to 3B (Mr. Burgess)

3T (Miss Thornton) will move to 4BY (Miss Briggs and Mrs Young)

3B (Miss Butterill now Mrs Rhodes) will move to 4T (Miss Thornton)

4E (Miss Emery) will move to 5B (Miss Broadbent)

4B (Miss Broadbent) will move to 5W (Mr. Whitaker)

4H (Mr. Handley) will move to 5E (Miss Emery)

5S (Mrs Scaife) will move to 6CLG

(Mrs Carr, Mrs Göksu & Mrs Livermore once she returns from maternity leave)

5B (Miss Burton) will move to 6H (Mrs Hooton)

On Wednesday pupils will spend the majority of the morning in their new classroom with their new teacher. They will return to their new classroom with their new teacher at the end of the day for story time. On Wednesday, please collect pupils from their new classrooms (a photo explaining where to collect your child will be sent next week) and feel free to pop into the new classroom or to have quick chat with the new teacher.

Next week we will also send out some 'meet the teacher' information which will help you to get to know the class teachers a little more.

Sadly, we have received calls this week from local residents complaining of parents / carers blocking their drives and then being abusive when asked to move. This does not set a good example to our pupils and is equally not fair on the local residents. Once again, we ask you to not park in permit only zones. As always, if you see anyone parked illegally or irresponsibly please take a photo of their registration and email it to parkingissues@bradford.gov.uk

Week beginning 1st July- Year 6 shows (daytime performances)

Wednesday 3rd July - Meet your new teacher day

Thursday 4th July - 1P school trip

Tuesday 9th July - 1RW school trip

Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th July - Year 6 residential

Thursday 11th July - Summer discos- Nursery to year 5

Week beginning 15th July - Healthy Schools week

Tuesday 16th July 9.15-10.30 - Reception sports day

Tuesday 16th July - Year 6 evening show (new date)

Wednesday 17th July 9.00-10.15 - Morning & All-Day Nursery sports day

Wednesday 17th July 10.30-12.00 - Y3 and Y4 sports day

Wednesday 17th July 2.00 - 3.15 - Afternoon & All-Day Nursery sports day

Thursday 18th July 9.15-10.45 - Y5 and 6 sports day

Thursday 18th July 1.45–3.15 - Y1 and 2 sports day

Thursday 18th July - Year 6 leavers' disco

Friday 19th July - Break the rules day

Monday 22nd July - School summer fair (after school)

Tuesday 23rd July - Year 6 leavers' assembly (pm)

Tuesday 23rd July - School finishes for the summer holidays and will re-open for pupils on Monday 2nd September.