Staffing Update - Parent Meeting changed to Friday after school (originally Thursday)
28 May 2022
*** Diary Change **
The meeting after school for any parents who may want to come and ask any further questions about the structure for next year is now this Friday (10th June) instead of Thursday 9th June.
Thank you
Dear Parents/Carers,
We hope you have all enjoyed the Jubilee picnic yesterday. It was lovely to see so many of you in school sharing in the celebrations.
I have some staffing updates I would like to share with you. Following the promotion of Mrs Barker to Deputy Head, we have successfully appointed Katie Glover to the Year 5/6 teaching post. Mrs Glover has capacity to come into school next half term so you and the children will have the opportunity to meet her before the start of the new academic year.
Mrs Lewis, who currently works in Class 3, will sadly be leaving us at the end of the summer term to spend more time with her family. I hope you will join me in thanking her for all her hard work and dedication to the school and wish her all the best for the future. Mrs Field, who currently works at Grewelthorpe will be taking over from Mrs Lewis in September and will continue to job share with Miss Rogers.
We have a very small intake of 8 pupils in Reception in September. In our current structure, this would mean that we would have 25 children in Class 2. To enable our class sizes to be more evenly distributed we have made the decision that for the academic year 2022-2023, we will have a Reception/Year 1 mix and then Year 2 will be on their own in Class 2. This will ensure that our teacher pupil ratios are smaller and more equal across EYFS and KS1. There will be some changes to the layout of class 1 and the outside area to accommodate this change. There will also be planned opportunities through Forest Schools, swimming and themed topics and enrichment for the Y1 children and the Y2 children to come together.
Miss Wray will also be reducing her hours from September, again to be able to spend more time with her family. As a result of this, the following changes have been made:
Class 1 teacher from September will be Miss Thewsey.
In Class 2, there will be a job share with Mrs Micklefield who will work Monday and Tuesday and then Miss Wray will work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Class 3 will be a job share with Mrs Field working Monday and Tuesday and then Miss Rogers working the remainder of the week.
Class 4 will have Mrs Glover.
We appreciate that there are lots of changes so there will be an opportunity on Thursday 9
th June after school for any parents who may want to come and ask any further questions about the structure for next year. We are also intending on having a transition afternoon where you can come into school and meet the teachers who will talk to you about next year.
We hope you enjoy your half term and the Jubilee celebrations this week. See you all back in school on Monday 6
th June.
Kind regards,
Pam Acheson