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3 days ago
Posted on 19th Oct 2026 by

A message from our Sports Leaders

Hello parents and carers

As some of you may know, at the start of the year, we introduced Sports Leaders to are school. They have done an amazing job with helping are school grow a love for sports. They have introduced new activities to our playgrounds like football, skipping and loads more. People have started to get involved in new games on our playgrounds.

These are some of our playground activities we have added to our school:

.Football

.Skipping

.Hurdles

.Piggy in the middle

.Catch

.Rock paper scissors shoot race

Our Sports Leaders have made an amazing start to there jobs and made our school a better place. We just want to say a massive well done to our Sports Leaders.

Your sincerely,

Ben and Stanley

6 days ago
Posted on 16th Oct 2026 by

Secondary School Applications

Reminder for Year 6 Parents

Secondary school applications need to me made online through the Local Authority by 31st October 2026 

Please ensure you have completed an application for your child.

 

 

6 days ago
Posted on 16th Oct 2026 by

HSA Events – Save the date!

Dear Families

Re. HSA events

I am pleased to be able to share with you some dates for future HSA events.  We are very excited to be hosting Breakfast with Santa, this year. Further details about the events will follow as soon as we have more information.

3.11.26 – Evie Pickerill of the BBC will be visiting school to talk to us about performing arts, respond to any questions the children have and read us a bedtime story. Children are invited to attend school in their pyjamas or ‘comfies’ and bring in their favourite book to share with their classes.

18.11.26 – Non uniform day for contributions to Christmas hampers

18.11.26 – discos

4.12.26 – sponsored Reindeer Run (during the school day)

5.12.26 – Breakfast with Santa.  Get into the festive spirit and join us for a breakfast sandwich, visit Santa in his Grotto and Christmas craft activities.

9.12.26 – Christmas film night for all ages – Polar Express 5-7pm

11.2.27 – discos

21.4.27 – discos

Summer term dates and events will be confirmed in the Spring term.

Many thanks for your continued support with school fundraising events.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Mason

Headteacher

 

6 days ago
Posted on 16th Oct 2026 by

Reception Welcome Service

On Wednesday, we spent a lovely afternoon at the church with our special grown ups.  It was a very special service to welcome all our new children and their families into our school and church community.  Father Jonathan spoke about the children being the light of the future and everyone lit a candle.  Mrs Mason was pleased to give every child a beautiful Bible to take home and the children hung a self-portrait on a special tree to remind the church congregation to hold them in their thoughts and prayers throughout the coming months.  The children treated us all to some lovely singing.  They even got to ring the church bell to signify the start of their time at Church of the Ascension.

 

 

6 days ago
Posted on 16th Oct 2026 by

Head teacher’s update

We have had a really lovely week of celebrations, at Church of the Ascension.  On Wednesday, we welcomed our reception children to school and church community. Thank you to Father Jonathan for leading our service reflecting on the importance of light in the world and how our children represent the light and hope of the future.  Thank you also to Max and Elizabeth, 2 of our year 6 pupils, who gave very thoughtful and reflective speeches about their experiences as pupils of our school.  Our reception children sang confidently and we all thoroughly enjoyed your service.

It was lovely to celebrate so many successes in our weekly Praise Assembly, this morning.  It was great to see a wide variety of subject achievements, as well as all of the brilliant activities that our children are involved in outside of school.

Well done to 10 of our year 6 pupils who participated in the T1 Rugby Tournament at DK Rugby Club, this afternoon.  The event was run by the sports leaders at Ellowes High School and they provided a great afternoon of activities and competitions.  Thank you to Mrs Clarke for organising. Mrs Clarke said that our children were a pleasure to spend the afternoon with and were excellent ambassadors for our school. We are looking forward to the team passing on the knowledge and skills that they learnt today, to the rest of the year group.

2 weeks ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2026 by

Poppy Appeal

We are again supporting the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal this year.

Poppies will be on sale in school for the next two weeks and the week after half term at a suggested donation of 20p.

There will also be a few other items available to buy as follows:

Toggle Bracelet £1

Reflector £1

Wristband £1

Snap Band £1.50

Rulers, rubbers, pencils and pencil sharpeners 50p each

Items will be sold at break times. If your child would like to purchase anything, please send in money in a named envelope/purse.

Reception classes – please send money in named envelope/purse, items will be sold in their classrooms.

We hope you can help us support this worthwhile cause.

2 weeks ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2026 by

Head teacher’s update

Huge thanks to our HSA for hosting the discos this week.  We had a great time – I hope that everyone has recovered from the excitement! Well done to the children who attended – it was a lovely atmosphere and I was very impressed by some of the dance moves!  I will be sending out a list of all other planned HSA events, next week.  There are already lots of great activities planned for this school year.

Our Sports Ambassadors have had a very busy week.  After some training with our sports coach, Matt, the children have been leading lots of games and activities.  These have included basket ball, netball, hurdles, skipping, balancing games and penalty shoot outs.  It has been brilliant to see the Ambassadors leading the other children in activities and challenges.  Thank you, Sports Ambassadors – you are doing a great job!

Mrs Peters launched our OPAL project with the children, this week.  We are very much looking forward to creating the first of our playground zones, after half term.  Thank you very much for the kind donations.  We are very grateful to have received toys, storage and monetary donations.  Your support with improving our social times is very much appreciated.