A joyful Happy Easter to all our friends and families, do have a great break. We look forward to welcoming everyone back after the holidays. Work Party We will be gathering at school on Thursday April 9th for a work party to improve the Nursery/EYFS Garden. We have all sorts of plans afoot but need…

Dear Parents and Carers, Gosh what a busy week! I think we are all ready to drop. I hope you get a relaxing weekend then come back bouncing ready for the last week of term. DOn’t forget that there’s no school on Friday – this last week of term is just four days. Ivy Music…

Newsletter 13th March Well! That has been my busiest week yet at wonderful Kenton Primary – all good I hasten to add, but super busy and I hope you will forgive me if this is a shorter than usual newsletter. My main purpose today is to say a huge thank you to everyone who has…

The Year of Reading I don’t know if you’ve noticed that we are really trying to push reading this year. I hope you have. Out of the many things that you could do to help your child flourish at school and beyond, promoting their enjoyment and fluency in reading is the most effective and, as…

Dear Parents and Carers, welcome back. It has been a jolly busy week here and half term already seems like a long, long time ago. I hope that you had a good break – our love and solidarity to those members of the community, and I’m afraid I think there was a few, who spent…

Dear Parents and Carers, Just a very quick message from me tonight. Firstly some ‘thank you’s and secondly, and very importantly we have a job vacancy that we would like as many people as possible to know about – please get in onto all the class whatsapps, the local facebook groups and any other networks…

Community Welcome Morning Last week I told you about our Community Welcome Morning. Stupidly, I had scheduled that for March 5th which happens also to be World Book Day. That was a silly mistake! I have rescheduled this event to Thursday March 12th. We’ll have a showcase of the children dancing and singing and some…

Dear parents and carers, What a week that was! Well done everyone who managed to stay safe and warm through Storm Chandra – and solidarity to everyone who had to deal with floods, flying trampolines, power outages and everything else that came our way. A bit of news from me before we get started; I…

Dear Parents and Carers, the wind is absolutely howling around me as I write this. I do hope you are all safe and warm and no one is losing slates off their roofs. It has been a week with a great deal of weather but there has been lots of fun and lots of learning…

Dear Parents and Carers, another busy and happy week at Kenton. We have so much to be thankful for. I have been bowled over this week by some amazing transformations in learning attitudes. Miss Phippen appears to have worked a miracle in Oak Class and I have had an absolute procession coming to see me…