Spofforth News

This week was very special as our children, many parents/carers and other members of our school community came together in Church for our annual Crib service. As always, the children were a real credit in terms of their singing, readings and confidence. Well done to everyone!

Finley from Spofforth School, won the Jubilee Award yesterday and his name is up in Wetherby Town Hall. He was nominated by Beavers for helping his Dad during a medical emergency last year and going to get the neighbours. We are so proud of him for showing excellent maturity! 

An enchanting visit brought the magic of C.S. Lewis’ beloved tale to life through drama teachers from Leeds Playhouse who visited Follifoot and Spofforth Primary School on Tuesday 10th December. The teacher’s ran an immersive workshop with the children, guiding them through the wondrous world of Narnia.
The staff in the schools expressed their delight at the unique educational opportunity: Seeing the children’s faces light up as they interacted with their favourite characters from Narnia was absolutely magical. After reading the book with the children this term, this workshop has inspired our students and is such a wonderful event for the children in the run up to Christmas.

The Year 5 children loved Cafe Church yesterday. Rev Barbara and her team organised juice and cake for them. The children sang a few Christmas songs for everyone and even took some special requests! 

Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came to the Class 2 workshop at Spofforth on Monday 2nd December.  They enjoyed making Autumn and Christmas Suncatchers.

Class 2 at Spofforth had a visit from PCSO Booth on Friday 6th December, learning all about road safety. 

The children in Class 1 had fun decorating the Christmas tree in the school hall this morning. Thank you to the Roberts family for their kind donation.

Glorious sunshine for our Cross Country event at Ashville for the pupils in KS2 across The Federation.  The children did really well with some outstanding individual achievements as well as a fantastic team spirit and a lot of support and cheering!

Children were asked to wear ‘Odd Socks’ on Tuesday 12th November in aid of Anti Bullying Week to help celebrate what makes us all unique. Thank you to everyone for their support.

Years 5 and 6 from across the federation visited Makkah Mosque in Leeds. We had an interesting morning learning about Islam and our hosts were very impressed with the amount of knowledge the children already had. We were so proud of the respect and interest shown by all the pupils from both schools.