Headteachers Blog

Click on the links for information about two great stories from Northstead on Scarborough Evening News website this week… https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/education/northstead-ta-named-finalist-for-bbc-make-a-difference-award-5182706 https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/education/a-splash-of-colour-at-northstead-cp-school-5180417  

Hello Northstead Community and welcome to Headteacher news. A busy, busy, busy two weeks since we returned from half term holidays. Colour Run What a 1st […]

Our end of half term newsletter was sent to our community yesterday and included many valuable and important information items. It may have been the shortest […]

Year 6 SATS It was a pleasure to see our children tackle the challenge of SATS with positivity, determination and super attitudes every day. Phased by […]

Attendance Updates The spring has brought better attendance to Northstead and we continue to have a more positive attendance. Average of the year is just above […]

Northstead Community Primary School in Scarborough is celebrating the incredible efforts of teaching assistant Tracy Squire, who has successfully fundraised over £20,000 to provide a state-of-the-art […]

Front of School – Important Change from Monday Unfortunately, due to incidents before school opens at 8:30am, no children or adults will now be allowed to […]

Football News… Pokemon Primary Schools’ Cup- County Finals- 15/1/25 Final Table: Clifton with Rawcliffe Sheriff Hutton Northstead and Pannal Tadcaster Riverside Hipswell Silsden Woodthorpe Match Result […]

A warm welcome back to Northstead Headteacher News to all of our community. This information should be read alongside today’s newsletter. Staffing News Congratulations to Mrs […]

Attendance News… Please note that the Attendance Raffle will take place during our assembly tomorrow. Over the course of the term, children have been steadily adding […]

As we reach the end of the half term, I get the chance to share lots of amazing news from school and at the bottom of […]

Harvest Assembly / Sing-a-long Many thanks to our whole community for their generosity today. We’ve filled almost 20 carrier bags with food for the Rainbow Centre. […]

End of week 6 round up. Attendance News (and punctuality) This week’s best attenders were in class class 10 with an amazing 99.33% (closely followed by […]

Another week has flown by and another week of seeing amazing learning across school take place. Safeguarding visit On Tuesday of this week, Lis Marsden (Senior […]

National Teaching Assistants Day Today marks national teaching assistant appreciation day. Across our school we have a number of teaching assistants who give our children amazing […]

Welcome to the end of another week at Northstead Community Primary School. It was great to welcome Christopher Briggs of Wykeham Mature Trees to school this […]

What a fantastic start to the new school year it has been! I am incredibly proud of how well our children have returned, demonstrating exceptional attitudes […]

Hello to the Northstead Community! With just a few days to the start of the new academic year, I thought I would take a bit of […]

Opportunities We’ve had an amazing few weeks for providing wider opportunities for the children in school. Y3-6 visiting the waterpark and this week, EYFS and KS1 […]

Hello and welcome to my first blog of summer term 2. Wykeham Lakes (Y3/4/5/6)  https://www.northyorkshirewaterpark.co.uk/ An amazing week for the children in years 3,4,5 and 6 as […]

 Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Headteacher news…. Staffing news It was great to see Miss Galinski and Miss Seeley returning to school on […]

Thanks… With the publication of our OFSTED report to the local newspaper recently, it has been a tricky week as a Headteacher of our school. Fortunately, […]

As I am writing the sun is finally shining! You never know, it might be here to stay and the children will finally get to play […]

This week at Northstead… Department for Education PEIA Board Visit School I had the pleasure of showing members of the Department for Education Priority Investment Area […]

Welcome back to the Summer term. This will be a shorter blog post than usual due to a newsletter being sent home yesterday. Please make a […]

An amazing amount of entries for the 2024 Easter egg design competition!  Some incredible designs. Thanks to our community for taking the time to submit your […]

Stars of Northstead A huge well done to all the winners of our term award, ‘Stars of Northstead’. It’s always a joy to celebrate excellence in […]

World Book Day What a wonderful world book day we have had this week. A truly memorable for all the children and staff in school. I […]

Parents, carers and families, OFSTED Inspection – 20th and 21st February 2024 You will no doubt be aware that we were inspected by His Majesty’s Inspectors […]

What a wonderful week 2! We may have had a week of ice, slush and snow but it has not stopped the children demonstrating our high […]

A big welcome back to all of our children and their families to the Spring Term of 2023-2024. An important term for the continued progress of […]

Many thanks to all of our parents and carers who have attended school in one way or another over the past few weeks. We’ve enjoyed some […]

Well done to the school choir It has been an immense pleasure to join the choir over the past two weekends. A wonderful performance of our […]

This week’s news It was a great pleasure to showcase our school to a visiting Headteacher from Lincolnshire this week. Mrs Watson was a pupil at […]

With the festive period fast approaching, school is gearing up for the many events we have planned in school. We look forward to many exciting things […]

A big welcome back to the second half of the Autumn term. With school photos, productions, singing, parties and many other events taking place this half […]

Many thanks to the parents and carers who have taken the time to add their views to OFSTED’s parent view website. Details of the responses for […]

As we approach the last week of half term, we have so much to look back on from this half term and be thankful for. Two […]

Many, many thanks to our school community for their very generous donations today. The Rainbow Centre will be collecting this today and it will allow them […]

Hello and many thanks for reading this week’s news. It starts off with some important news and then we are very excited to share more amazing […]

Autumn Term Week 4 comes to an end and writing displays around school are beginning to take shape, showing the amazing writing which is being developed […]

On Tuesday night, both of our school football teams took on their counterparts from Gladstone Road. In two entertaining encounters, both teams came up trumps with […]

Attendance Matters Well done to class 5 who were top attenders again this week. Unfortunately, no classes with 100% this week and so the prize tub […]

Always Learning…. Aiming for Excellence This week, I’ve had the pleasure of focusing on some of my own learning as Headteacher and I was able to […]

Well done to our first Headteacher award winners for 2023-2024. All children who achieve a Headteacher Award are able to choose a book of their choice […]

Welcome back to the new school year. The first few days of the new school year have flown by with the children acting responsibly, respectfully and […]

Wow! I cannot believe how much has taken place since I last posted a blog for the website. We’ve recently completed seven transition evenings, 4 sports […]

KS1 SATS A huge well done to all of our Y2 children who enjoyed their KS1 ‘quiz’ time this week. The children have been the best […]

Y6 SATS WEEK Well, there we go. My first Y6 SATS week as a Headteacher has been and gone and I couldn’t be prouder of our […]

Here we are, the week before the end of key stage two tests. Our children in year 6 have worked incredibly hard and battled to be […]

A first for me this week in school. It was amazing to be joined by one of our AV robots in our Star of the Week […]

When we found out that we were going to welcome two children from Ukraine, little did we know that our Y6 arrival would be so amazing! […]

Star of the Week! It was a pleasure this afternoon to award so many of our children a star of the week certificate or for some […]

We are proud of our Egyptian scribes, who have been writing in hieroglyphs. Our historians have learnt that the ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest […]

Well! We didn’t expect to arrive in school this morning and find the roof of our EYFS home hut on the adventure playground. Luckily for us, […]

As part of our PSHE scheme of learning, we are focusing on Dreams and Goals this half term. Last Friday, we introduced this to the children […]

First of all, we would like to wish all of our community a Happy New Year! We do hope 2023 will bring us joy, love, encouragement […]

Well that is it, the end of my first term as Headteacher of Northstead and what a term it has been! Today, we celebrated Stars of […]

After a very successful school fair last Friday (we raised over £1,000) we have enjoyed a fun-filled week at Northstead. It has been an absolute pleasure […]

Well, what a week and where to begin… It has been assessment week in school. Children have showed grit and determination to be the best they […]

What a great week, a week which began with Anti-Bullying Week 2022 and with us sharing our Anti-Bullying message in assemblies, wearing our odd socks to […]

North Yorkshire Sportshall Athletics Event / Trials – Scarborough event For Under 11’s (School Year 5 and 6) One of a series around North Yorkshire, leading […]

Friday – Children In Need Day Information We invite children (and adults) to enter our ‘Reet Big Biscuit Bake Off Competition’. Children are asked to bring […]

Free Violin Lessons offer letter Scarborough Music Centre is once again offering free violin lessons to children in the area on Saturday mornings during term time […]

Monday – Don’t forget to wear odd socks as we learn about Anti-Bullying in school! https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/anti-bullying-week/anti-bullying-week-2022-reach-out Friday – Children In Need Day Information We invite children […]

We invite children to wear a red t-shirt / blouse or jumper to school on this day. Children should still wear their school trousers / skirt […]