News from July 2025

We held our annual Year 6 Leavers Service on Wednesday 16th July. What an emotional morning that was! It was lovely to hear all their wonderful memories of their time at Follifoot School.

We had a fantastic wellbeing day on Friday at Spofforth School. Thank you to all the parents who donated plants, flowers and their time. Our outdoors now look amazing!! The sensory area in the playground is beautifully decorated with wind chimes, herbs, lavender and lots of colour. The Bug hotel has been renovated and hopefully will attract lots of wildlife. A huge thank you to Helen, who is a children’s yoga teacher, for coming in and working with each class on a yoga and mindfulness session. The children also had lots of fun with many other activities!

The children at Follifoot enjoyed a full day centred around well-being on Wednesday 9th July.  In the morning, we took part in a yoga session with the wonderful Helen which was both invigorating and relaxing.  In the afternoon, the children took part in three different activities: creating a fairy garden with Mrs Long, dot painting on rocks / tiles with Mrs McCann and weaving with Mrs Bromley.  It was a relaxing day full of chatter and kindness. 

We are excited to share the news that the Federation has been awarded the Silver Award for PSHE and Emotional Health and Wellbeing, from The Healthy Schools Partnership. North Yorkshire also said “It was a very good submission and shows your schools commitment to the health and wellbeing of the whole school community”.

Chrystal the sustainable travel officer from NYC came in on Tuesday to talk to the Reception and KS1 children about road safety.

“We learnt that you must check for cars before crossing the road and not to wear headphones or be on your phone as you won’t hear any cars. You have to try and not get distracted as you need to be concentrating.
We enjoyed learning about road safety in fact we loved it”

Years 1&2 had a fantastic day on Wednesday at Born of the Forest. We loved playing in the mud kitchen, on the hammocks and taking part in some craft activities. We especially enjoyed the campfire and toasting marshmallows!

What a fantastic day Class 1 across The Federation had at ‘Big Sheep, Little Cow’ farm. The children were so well behaved and had so much fun?

Class 3 at Spofforth had a great time drawing at the Castle Ruins and even saw a wedding!