Dear Parents / Carers,

We had a fantastic start to the week, our Yr 6 swimmers attended the Newcastle swimming gala and won every single race!  They smashed it! They even broke previous records.  I’m so proud of all of you.  Huge congratulations to Freya, Eva and Nevaeh who won the medley relay and freestyle relay, breaking both records.  Jackson, Bertie and Zak won the freestyle relay with 9/100ths off the record.  So close!  Poppy, Leila and Cooper won the surfboard relay.

Dear Parents / Carers,

What a busy week we’ve had in school with all of our sporting events and our open evening for new families to Friarswood.

Thank you to all of the staff who stayed late last night for the open evening.  It was a huge success and your support really meant a great deal to the parents who came.

A massive thank you to Sofia in Year 5 and Arthur in Year 3 for being brave and talking in front of so many adults.  I was so proud of you both!

On Tuesday afternoon our KS1 children took part in their sports day. They were absolutely brilliant even with the heat! The children tried their hardest in every race and everyone made it across the line. The afternoon flew by with a variety of races. We even had time for a parent’s egg and spoon race! Thank you to everyone who came to cheer along the children. It was wonderful to see everyone again. #SucceedTogether

Dear Parents / Carers,

Thankfully the summer weather is finally here.  Please can you make sure your child brings their water bottle, sunhat and sunscreen to school.

School times

From September, we will be lengthening each school day by 5 minutes.  This is inline with the Government request of each school day being 6.5 hours.  The reason behind this is to give all children the same learning time in school.  As we are nearly at 6.5 hours a day, it will only mean a slight change for Friarswood.

So, from September the school day will be from 8:50am to 3:20pm for all year groups.  We will open the doors from 8:40am.

If you have any concerns with this, please feel free to let me know.

Early Years Outdoor Area

The early years team have been busy renovating the outside area. The new outdoor learning area is amazing. We’ve been showing new parents around and they have been very impressed.  A huge thank you to Mrs Williams, Mrs Rushton, Mrs Tagg and Miss Goodwin and Mac.

Dear Parents / Carers,

Welcome back to our last half term of this academic year.  We have so many activities planned for the children that I know it will be busy.  Please keep a look out for the dates on the website and on social media.

A Day to celebrate our differences!

On Thursday 30th June we will be celebrating RSE (Relationships and sex education) Day at Friarswood. The theme this year is ‘Everyone can Sparkle!’ Children are invited to come to school in anything sparkly. It’s a day when we will be focusing on all of our wonderful, unique qualities, relationships and how different they can all be and most importantly we will be celebrating our differences.