Headteacher’s Newsletter – 12th December 2025
Dear Parents/Carers,
We’ve had another lovely week at St. Mary’s. The EYFS nativity was just lovely and our iRock stars were shining brightly. Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended the performances – the school was packed!
PTA Disco
The PTA disco was just amazing! The music was loud, the games were fun and all the parents were well-behaved! No seriously, the children had an amazing time and thank you so much to all the parents that helped out to make the event such a success. The PTA are so amazing at giving up their time to provide so much for the children of St. Mary’s.
EYFS Nativity
Seeing your child in their first nativity performance is a very special experience and this week it wasn’t any different for all of our families.
Church Celebrations, Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumpers – a bumper day!
Our Christmas dinner will be on Thursday 18th December 2025. You can view the full festive menu and order on School Grid.
Christmas Jumper Day
We will be holding our Christmas Jumper Day on Thursday 18th December 2025. Children can wear a festive jumper instead of a school jumper but must be in school uniform otherwise. Please bring in a £1 donation to go to Save the Children.
We’d love to see you at Church for our Christmas Carol service at 9.30am on yes, you guessed it, Thursday 18th December.
Staffing Update from January 2026
We are delighted to welcome new staff to our school from January 2026
School Business Manager – Mrs Tinkham, who will be in the office Monday, Thursday & Friday
Administrator – Mrs Strick who will continue to be in the office but on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning.
Year 1 Teacher – Mrs Leah will be teaching our Year 1 class Thursday and Friday along with Mrs Brunt who will be teaching Monday – Wednesday.
Nursery Lead – Mrs Jocefcuk
SENDCo – Miss Wakefield (Monday-Friday)
Attendance
| Whole school attendance this week | 96.62% |
| Class with the highest attendance this week | Year 3 & Year 6 – 97.4% |
| Whole school attendance (year to date) | 96.6% |
| National average | 94.7% |
Dates for your Diary
Have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you all on Monday for our last week of term.
Kind regards,
Mrs McQueen
