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Our Trust Educational Visits Coordinator and Science Teacher at Harrogate Grammar School, Joanne Sutcliffe, reflects on the value of school trips, not just for students but for the colleagues who make them possible.
Richard Sheriff, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the Red Kite Learning Trust has made the decision to retire from his leadership position and look to pursue his many other interests both within and beyond education.
CEO of Red Kite Learning Trust, Richard Sheriff talks about the “tricky balancing act” of deciding whether to close schools during ‘snow days’ and the toll of abuse teachers face on social media.
We are delighted to annouce that the DfE has approved the proposal for Saltergate Schools to join our Trust.
What a fabulous year! I am so proud of all the children and staff for their hard work and dedication to
learning. Our children have done brilliantly and made superb progress. As an inclusive school, we are
unlikely to top the league tables, but we all strive to ensure every pupil achieves their very best.
As we approach the end of the academic year we want to share some of our Cluster Team highlights, successes and feedback from the past year.
ed Kite Foundation is designed to enhance the life experiences and opportunities of children in its care facing challenging circumstances.
Following its recent Ofted inspection, Colton Primary was described as a 'school where anything is possible' and rated as 'Outstanding.
Our schools are all part of Red Kite Learning Trust, a multi academy of 14 schools who benefit from centralised support and collaboration.
Our Youth Board have been discussing rewilding, sustainability, election plans and the first Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics.
The first Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics took place this week with year 5 and 6 pupils from all our Trust schools competing in a number of sporting events.
This week, our Chair Trustees, Chris Tulley, and our CEO, Richard Sheriff, sent an open letter to local MPs and other senior politicians and executives in
the Department for Education about school funding.
Last month, Maths Leads from all our primary schools came together to collaborate and share best practice.
I am sure you will agree this has been an excellent half term. The children have thoroughly enjoyed their learning and have had lots of fun.
Our Red Kite Learning Trust Youth Board met again earlier this month. Read all about their meeting and initiatives our young people are working on.
We hope you feel ready to have fun and get stuck into our new topics. It is great to see the exciting things that are going on all the time in school.
This term, our Youth Board met up to discuss rewilding initiatives, Trust-wide sustainability, improving attendance and ideas for future meeting agendas.
We have had a fantastic autumn term with lots of brilliant things going on. Last week, we had wonderful Christmas performances
and we do hope you have enjoyed them.
Keen to learn from our young people, to give them a voice and an opportunity to help shape the future of our Trust, last year we set up our Red Kite Youth Board. Read our latest update.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Parents and Carers Consultations. It was wonderful to see so many of you and to share the successes of the term so far.
As part of celebrating the diversity of our community and our Religious Education
curriculum, we have been teaching the children about Diwali - a festival celebrating the triumph of light over darkness enjoyed by millions of people of Hindu, Sikh and Jain
faiths.
This week the children have been celebrating Harvest Festival and learning about firework safety.
Red Kite Learning Trust are holding a Recruitment Open Day where you can find out more about current teaching and operational career opportunities available across our Trust.
We would like to extend an extra special welcome to our new families, joining reception, nursery and higher up school too. We have had a great start to the new term and the children have settled back into school very well.
Friday 20th October at 9:15am and Tuesday 24th October at 14:30.
As we come towards the end of the term, and this academic year, I would like to thank all our parents and carers for their support over the year. I would also like to thank the dedicated staff who work tirelessly to make sure we provide the best education we can for all our children.
In this year’s report we have chosen to celebrate the successes of our schools, communities, colleagues, and young people by telling some of the stories from across our Trust.
Our Summer programme includes activities and events co-ordinated and led by TNCP and local partner organisations.
This term has gone so fast, we are not sure how we managed to fit everything in! I would like to say a huge well done to all the children in Year 2 and Year 6 for successfully completing the national tests known as SATS
Y2 and Y5 went to visit Temple Newsam and had a brilliant time experiencing ‘real life’ history through handling artefacts and getting dressed up.
We raised an amazing amount for Simon on the Streets, we would like to thank all the parents who were involved.
