Toot lessons; Dogs Trust Visit; Children in Need; our 225 Year School Celebrations; Newstead Abbey; the Nativity; the Pantomime and all our other Christmas celebrations and rewards...

At Christmas 1799, Richard Ransom was appointed as the first School Master of our Parish School – our School - which opened to pupils in the following January 1800. Please join us to celebrate this remarkable milestone in both our school and our community’s history.

This September revised government statutory guidance has come into force in all schools, in an attempt to improve national school attendance rates. Guidance now states that schools should not authorise attendance for recreational purposes such as a holiday in almost all circumstances. Furthermore, any child of school age is deemed to be ‘persistently absent’ if they miss ten sessions or more in a rolling period of ten school weeks. A session is a morning or afternoon in school.

An unauthorised holiday in term time of the duration of 5 days or more is therefore more likely to be subject to a fixed term penalty fine payable by each parent of £80 if paid within 21 days and £160 if paid within 28 days. We will be keen to offer support to all families when a student’s attendance drops below 90% for any reason

The end of the summer term always seems to hurtle towards us with lots of different activities packed into a short space of time. Since the last newsletter we’ve had a successful sports day at the Pavilion; a display of artwork at the recent North Clifton Art Festival; the Owls have been on their activity trip of climbing and swimming; the children are reaping the benefits of their hard work over the term enjoying treats earned from their dojo points;

As we draw towards the close of this academic year, I would like to take this opportunity to share the progress that the staff, Governors and children have made since the OFSTED inspection in September 2023 and to thank parents for their continued support.

D-Day Commemoration Like many around the country, we commemorated the 80th Anniversary of D-Day last Thursday. The Owls in particular had been learning about the planning and preparation involved in D-Day and also the events of the day itself. Much of their work went on display at the Pavilion as part of the villages’ D-Day Event last Thursday evening. The event was well attended, and at 9.15pm those gathered listened to a short poem, the playing of the last post, and watched as a beacon was lit in commemoration of those involved on 6th June 1944.

 The Owls trip to Bomber Command took place last Thursday and was, by all accounts, a very interesting day out. The children were guided through the peace gardens and memorials where they were able to find the name of young ‘Billy’ Akrill, whose life and loss as a RAF navigator in the War, they’ve been studying... 

We are very much looking forward to our Friends' annual Autumn Fun Day on Saturday 14th October...

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Bouncy Castle, Splat the Rat, Sweet Tombola, Pumpkin Carving Competition, Hot Food, Welly Wanging, A Raffle and so much more...

School's Governing Body has two vacancies for parent governors and is therefore looking for two parents who have children at the school. The term ‘parent’ relates to any person who has ‘parental responsibility’ as defined by the Section 576 of the Education Act 1996...

It is a privilege to introduce myself as the new Headteacher of North Clifton Primary School. When I first visited, I was immediately struck by the school’s welcoming, nurturing, family environment and meeting your children when visiting the school has been an absolute pleasure. 

Newark Book Festival and Author Visit to the Owls 

Our work with Newark Book Festival is continuing this term, with our entries for a creative writing competition about our local area. Entries will be exhibited at the Book Festival in Newark from 6th-9th July 2023... 

We are delighted to tell you that over the summer term we will be joined by a specialist practitioner to deliver forest school-inspired / bushcraft outdoor learning on a Wednesday 

Thank you for the donations for the NSPCC’s Number Day – a total of £31.45 has been raised and will be passed on to the charity...

The whole school trip (Reception to Year 6) to Newstead Abbey to experience the sights, sounds and activities of a Victorian Christmas takes place on Tuesday 10th December 2024

Stay and Play sessions will begin on the 7th January, 9.15am-10.30am, every Tuesday morning (during term time). These sessions will provide an opportunity for parents or caregivers to stay with their pre-school children and actively participate in various activities and play experiences alongside them.

Welcome back!  The summer holidays are already a distant memory and the children have settled well into their new classes, although staff have been grappling – as I expect many of you have been – to life without the internet!

KS1&2 Trip to Tuxford – Athletics
Next Thursday our KS1 and KS2 pupils are going to Tuxford to play athletics with other local primary
schools. The event is taking place after lunch in the afternoon and the children will be back in school for a
normal pick up at 3.30pm. Please can all children come into school in their PE kit on Thursday and bring a water bottle, sun hat and waterproof. Please also return the slip below giving your consent for the trip.

Thank you again to everyone who had time to come and sample the food Good Lookin Cookin brought into school on Tuesday’s parents evening – general feedback was positive. Good Lookin Cookin (GLC) will be providing our school meals from Monday 15th April when we return from the Easter Holidays 

 Governors have recently approved a new Attendance Policy that I will now be implementing in full. Schools have a legal responsibility to monitor attendance closely and to work with parents to resolve any issues that may be affecting pupil attendance. The impact on learning from absence may well surprise you, for example, an attendance rate of 96% across an academic year equates to a total of 9 learning days lost...

There were many incredibly positive conversations had with the Inspectors during their time with us and we cannot express how proud we are of our children and how they represented our school on what was a very important occasion for us all...

Our Macmillan Coffee Morning last Friday – we were overwhelmed with cakes which was wonderful, and raised an amazing £108.56! So, thank you for your support and to everyone involved...

First week back and it’s flown by! The children have settled really well into their new groups and it’s been a very positive week. 

 As part of our topic on ‘holiday destinations’ and ‘sea-sides: past and present’, we are taking the whole school on a trip to Anderby Creek on Thursday 13th July for what should be a fun-packed consolidation of learning and end of term treat...

Mrs Sanderson is an experienced leader who wants to build on the great things that are already happening within school...

We are slowly building up our ICT equipment which gets a lot of use in a wide variety of subjects, and are delighted to have received a recent donation from Holly’s Dad in the form of a ‘visualiser’. This will enable teaching staff to better share books, documents, writing and animation from their desk with pupils on the whiteboards. A huge thank you to Mr Gibson...

The Universe itself visited us on Friday in the form a giant inflatable ‘pod’ that must have filled over half of the The Den! StarLincs visited us with their portable Planetarium giving the children a whistle-stop tour of the universe. We all thoroughly enjoyed the event, which was imaginative and extremely informative and our thanks goes to the Susanna Hall Charity, whose donation to school funds enabled us to make this happen.