Developing Children’s Social, Moral, Spiritual, Cultural Awareness
Autumn (1) 2013-14
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18.9.13: NSPCC visited class 4 children in relation to ‘keeping safe’.
25.9.13: Year 3-6 took part in the inter-school cross-country event at South Craven. One boy
came second, securing a place at the regional finals, at which he came 9 th. Out of 40 runners.
 Class 3 football event at South Craven on 15th Nov.
 26.9.13: Class 1 children visited Glusburn Institute to see their puppet production of ‘The
Gruffalo’s Child’
Clubs on offer:
 Handball, Art, Cookery, Gardening, Puzzle, Variety of music tuition.
Autumn (2) 2013-14
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15.10.13: School photographer: Class photos.
11.10.13: Harvest Festival Service, St Thomas Church, well attended by parents.
Half-term: Miss Margetson visited the schools link school in Sierra Leone over the half-term
break. This further establishes the link between the two schools and will result in shared
project on?
 11.11.13. The school was represented at the Park Cenotaph on Armistice Day; Where
Reverend Cowgill led a short service. A special assembly was also held in school.
 14.11.13. Class 4 ‘Drugs Awareness’ talk, led by Peter Dawn, a motivational speaker / drugs
counsellor. Parents were informed of this session and its contents in advance.
 13 / 14.11.13: Parental consultations. As ever, these were very well attended.
Clubs on offer:
 Dodge ball, Handball, Art, Gardening. In addition, a significant take up of musical
instrumentation is evident in class 3, following a roll out of the wider opportunities programme
of music tuition in school. This allows children to take home instruments free of charge.
Spring (1) 2013-14
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17.11.14: representatives from year 3-6 attended the inter-schools swimming gala in Skipton.
28.11.13: year 4 visited South Craven School as part of a ‘language challenge’ workshop.
29.11.13: Over £300 was raised from the school Christmas discos, which we attended by all
but three children in the school.
 7.12.13: ‘Carols in the Park’ was attended by the school choir and staff representatives.
 The School Choir visited a selection of local Retirement homes to sing for the residents.
 10.12.13: Over £800 was raised from the Christmas fair, which was well attended and
supported by parents.
 12.12.13: Year 4 attended the ‘RE-Wind’ to Christmas’ events at St Thomas Church.
 17.12.13: The school performed their Christmas nativity production in afternoon and evening
performances, this being well attended.
Clubs on offer:
 KS1 Art, KS2 Art, Dance
Spring (2) 2013-14
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29.1.14: members of years 3-6 attended a performing arts event at South Craven School.
24.2.14: the local Fire Safety Officer led school sessions for children.
12.3.14: Class 1 visited Luby’s tearooms in Crosshills in order to have a drink and piece of
cake as part of their Geography theme of ‘exploring the local community’.
Throughout this half term local PCSO’s have visited school to deliver sessions with the
children on ‘Keeping Safe’.
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14.3.14: Mrs Walsh met with Sutton Baptist Playgroup, the main pre-school provider in the
village, with a view to scheduling an increased range of activities between their setting and
school.
 25.3.14: Year 6 children visited ‘Crucial Crew’, an annual y6 visit alongside other schools, to
take part in workshops on health and safety e.g. internet safety.
 Class assemblies are were presented to parents this half-term. These were well attended by
them.
 The school’s profile has been enhanced by three appearances in the local press since the
previous Governing Body meeting.
Clubs on offer:
 Art, Dance, Gardening, Multisports
Summer (1) 2013-14
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25/ /27.3.14: Parents evening was very well attended, as usual with all but three parents of
children in the school coming in.
 4.4.14: a party was held for KS1 children in school. This was very well attended and raised
£200 for Friends.
 7.5.14: a group of key stage 2 children undertook a tour of Skipton Police Station as a reward
for their outstanding behaviour.
 7.5.14: Class photos were taken.
 13.5.14: Police visited for classes 1 and 2, with the police van.
 23.5.14: Friends ran an end of term cake stall to raise funds.
Clubs on offer:
 Art, Gardening, Bricks for Kidz (Lego)
Summer (2) 2013-14
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2.6.14: Our year 5/6 footballers played football against Glusburn Primary School. Despite the
large difference in the size of schools, Sutton CE triumphed.
3.6.14: Martin Hill, Head of year 7 at South Craven visited our year 6 leavers.
6.6.14: Headteacher and Mrs Smith led a parents meeting for those children attending the
year 5/6 residential visit to Scarborough.
11.6.14: Year 3/4 took part in the local inter-school cricket tournament.
15.6.14: The annual Sutton Fun day was held, with school joining in the parade, once again
winning first prize.
16.6.14: School Nurse, Jane Lee worked alongside Mrs Smith to deliver the annual talk to
year 6 boys and year 5 / 6 girls on the theme of puberty / growing up, this being in
accordance with the school’s Sex and Relationships Education Policy.
17.6.14: The school appeared on an item on BBC Look North in relation to how small schools
are preparing for the changes to free school meal provision in September.
19.6.14: The school undertook its annual sponsored walk, when a good number of parents
and other family members joined us. Friends are still awaiting a final amount raised for this.
21.6.14: ‘Heats’ took place in school for the annual ‘Sutton’s Got Talent’ competition which
takes place on the last day.
24.6.14: The large majority of year 5 and 6 children attended our annual residential visit, this
year to Scarborough. This was a very ‘traditional’ trip for three days involving lots of paddling,
sand castles and rock pooling, as well as visits to the Scarborough Castle and the Sea Life
Centre. The children behaved brilliantly, this being routinely commented upon.
25.6.14: Reception and year 1 children attended the local school’s ‘Mini Olympics’ at South
Craven School.
30.6.14: ‘Year 5 day’ at South Craven School.
4.7.14: Key stage 2 ‘Chill out night’ was well attended and included a film, dancing and video
games.
9.7.14: Years 5 and 6 attended the inter-schools rounders festival.
11.7.14: Class 4 performed Roald Dahl’s ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ for parents and the school.
This was well received by the good number of family members attending.
16.7.14: Whole school ‘Picnic in the Park’ with games and sports.
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W/c 14.7.14: Parents received pupil end of year reports
21.7.14: Year 6 vs. Staff annual rounders match in Sutton Park, 3.30pm
22.7.14: Leaver’s Assembly in school, with annual leavers gift and leavers slideshow
22.7.14: End of year games on the playground: chocolate tombola, bun stall, beat the Goalie
(Mr Phillips)
 Friends have raised in excess of £2000 this year and have continued to be very well
supported. They intend to spend the bulk of this money in 2014-15 on play-based playground
markings
 Throughout this half term, ‘new starters’ for September have been visiting for their ‘transition’
sessions in class 1. Mrs Walsh and Mr Phillips have also been visiting and speaking to the
pre-school settings from which the children come, in order to ensure school is familiar with the
needs and abilities of the children who will be joining us.
Clubs on offer:
 Football, Bricks for kidz’ Lego Club.
Autumn (1) 2014-15
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10.9.14: Reverend Cowgill attended school on 10th September to deliver his final assembly
before his retirement. The whole school attended and a short assembly followed by Mr
Phillips, to express our thanks to him, a collection from staff and parents supported this.
 10.9.14: Ian Davey, (NYCC Peripatetic music teacher) has confirmed that he will be able to
offer our older children (Oak Class) ongoing musical tuition through the school year. Children
will be given the opportunity to learn a new instrument which they borrow for the year.
 11.9.14: Alison Way is visiting school weekly, throughout this half term in order to train our
‘Playground Buddies’ in First Aid.
Clubs on offer:
 Football, Lego, Art
Autumn (2) 2014-15
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10.10.14: Parents joined the school for its’ annual Harvest Festival Service at St Thomas
church.
 20.10.14: Greg Thompson, a published Author visited Oak Class to discuss his work and
provide a question and answer session on effective story writing.
 21 / 22.10.14: Parent Evenings were once again very well attended with one 2 / 3 families not
attending. Feedback from parents to Classteachers was overwhelmingly positive.
 23.10.14: Children Society visited school on 3 separate occasions in order to lead sessions
on personal safety and stranger danger and e-safety with Oak Class (yrs 4-6)
 11.11.14: Girl’s Football at South Craven School, inter-school tournament
 12.11.14: Friends held a bun stall, raising over £100.
 12.11.14: the ‘Dogs Trust’ visited all the children with two dogs, in order to work with the
children on ‘pet care’ and the work the trust does. This proved a very popular visit with the
children.
 13.11.14 An ‘Open morning’ was held for parents of children potentially joining the school in
September 2015.
 14.11.14: Annual Children in Need events took place in school, organised and led by the
School council and Mrs Baker. This raised £229
 15.11.14. In addition, an ‘Open Morning / McMillan Charity Coffee Morning’ was held.
 17.11.14: Anti-Bullying week took place in school, with children mixing with others from
different classes in order to engage in associated activities. Assembly was led by ‘Playground
Buddies’ on what makes happy playtimes.
Clubs on offer:
 Art, Dodgeball, Football, Accordion, Choir
Autumn (2) 2014-15
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6.12.14: The School Christmas Fair was held in school. This was well attended and raised
£1000, surpassing last year’s total.
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6.12.14: The School choir, led by Miss Margetson, joined members of the local community at
‘Carols in the Park’.
 9.12.14: Miss Kent led a workshop for parents on how they could support their child in their
phonics learning.
 15 & 16.12.14: The whole school nativity services were very well attend at St. Thomas’s
church
 19.12.14: The school Carol Service was held at St. Thomas’s
 19.12.14: The whole school attended the pantomime of Cinderella at Skipton Auction Mart.
The cost of £10 per child was half met by a contribution from ‘Friends’
Clubs on offer:
 Choir were very active in the Autumn Term, including a variety of visits to people in the local
community and retirement homes. This group was very well attended, with roughly a third of
the school being in the choir.
 Bobbins after school club now offer a weekly programme of different events and workshops
for all children in school. This includes Lego and construction, Art and design, Baking and a
DVD evening.
 The ever-popular Brick 4 Kidz., Lego building club has re-commenced.
 For their half-termly sports club, Sports cool will be leading a Handball club.
Spring (1) 2014-15
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7.1.15: Mrs King attended a ‘Cross-phase’ meeting at South Craven School to discuss
transition events for year 6 children moving to this school in 2015.
 16.1.15: Children from years 4-6 attended an inter-school swimming gala.
 26.1.14: year 4 children attend the ‘Language Challenge’ at South Craven School, alongside
other local schools.
 27.1.14: year 4 children attended RE-Wind to Christmas, at St Thomas’s Church, alongside
other local schools. This is Christian based workshop for children, led by Alison Way from
CLIKS (Christian Links in Keighley Schools). In addition, Alison Way continues to lead
Christian worship in school every 4 weeks, and Rev. Tim Calow continues to also, every two
weeks.
 28.1.15: Children in year 3-6 joined other local schools for a drama workshop at South
Craven school.
 School commenced offering breakfast at our before school care service (known as Bobbin’s
Breakfast). This service is now led by two members of staff (Mrs Baker and Mrs Smith), due
to increased demand from parents.
Clubs on offer:
 Handball, Brick 4 Kidz., (Lego)
Spring (2) 2014-15
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12.2.15: Wellies and Onesies sponsored event in Sutton Park, this events raising £850 for
Cancer Research.
 2.3.15: Fair Trade Fortnight was celebrated in school via activities in classes, and also in
support of the school’s aim to gain level 1 Fair Trade status by the end of the summer term.
 5.3.15: World Book Day, supported by the Scholastic Bookfair, which saw children dressing
up, sharing their favourite books and taking part in related activities.
 13.3.15: Red Nose Day was held in school with a variety of activities on offer.
 17 / 19.3.15: Parents Evenings held, this was very well attended again.
Clubs on offer:
 Golf, Accordion, Bricks for Kids (Lego)
Summer (1) 2014-15
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26.3.15: Year 5 and 6 children attended the Tag Rugby tournament at South Craven School.
27.3.15: Parents attended the school’s annual Easter Service at St Thomas’, where children
re-told the Easter story.
3.4.15: Mr Phillips met with Rev. Helen Collings, the newly appointed Vicar of St Thomas’s to
discuss how the church and school will work together in 2015-16.
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16.4.15: School Council led assembly in school on healthy eating and recycling food waste, in
support of their work towards gaining the ‘Eco Schools Award.’
 30.4.15: Adventure Photography were in school to take annual class photographs.
 15.5.15: ‘Big Board Game Day’ was held in school. This aims to involve parents in coming
into school and to develop children’s skills around e.g. turn taking, sharing, following rules etc.
 18.5.15: Year 6 children and Mrs Campbell met with the head of Year 7 from South Craven
School, to discuss transition events, first days in school etc.
Clubs on offer:
 ‘Multisports, Accordion.
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In addition, Bobbins continue to offer different clubs throughout the week, these being:
‘Construction’ on Mondays, ‘Art’ on Tuesdays, ‘Baking’ on Wednesdays, ‘Craft’ on Thursdays
and a DVD on Fridays. Outdoor play is also included within each session.
Summer (2) 2014-15
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9.6.15: year 3 and 4 children attended an inter-school cricket tournament at Sutton Cricket
Club.
 10-12.6.15: 21 children accompanied staff on the school’s annual residential visit; this year, to
Langdale Youth Hostel. The children enjoyed themselves thoroughly and behaved well, and
we all enjoyed beautiful weather and a range of outdoor and adventurous activities.
 21.6.15: Sutton Funday parade was well attended again, with over a third of the school joining
in. We gained second place for our ‘Where’s Wally’ theme.
 25.6.15: We held our annual sponsored walk to Wainmans Tower and ’The Pinnacle’. This
seeks o raise money for new planters for our playground.
Clubs on offer:
 Football, Accordian
Autumn (1) 2015-16
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Children have elected new School Council members from their classes. These children will
meet with parents on Thursday 1st October for our formative ‘Pupil – Parent Council’ meeting.
This is led by me, Mrs Baker and Mrs Jenkins.
 Playground Buddies have applied for and been selected for these posts in school. Playground
Buddies provide pastoral support for children at playtimes and dinnertimes, assisting staff in
leading games and helping ensure a safe and fun culture exists on the playground.
 30.9.15: yrs 3-6 inter-school cross-country at South Craven School
 30.9.15: Claire Brough from Child line / NSPCC visited to lead a workshop for years 5-6 on
‘stranger danger’ and staying safe online
 1.10.15: The pupil-parent council met to plan fund-raising events for the year ahead. This will
include a parents ‘shopping night’ in school on 26.11.15: and the Christmas Fair on 5.12.15.
 6.10.15: Joe Roebuck, Olympic Athlete, visited school in order to lead a sponsored keep fit
event with the children.
 6.10.15: SK led a phonics workshop for parents to share information how this key area of
reading development is taught in school and how they can support their child’s learning.
 13.10.15: yrs 3-6 attended inter-school football at South Craven School, with year 3-4
footballers securing 2nd place out of ten teams.
 13.10.15: School Photographer visited to take individual pupil photos.
 15.10.15: Parents attended the Harvest Festival Service at St Thomas’s Church, with food
donations going this year to the Salvation Army in Keighley.
Clubs on offer:
 Choir
 This year school is using a new after-school sports club provider, ‘Clubs Complete’. Mr
Michael Hepppleston will be leading ‘Dodgeball’ this half term.
Autumn (2) 2015-16
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2 & 5.11.15: Parents evenings were held in school, these being attended by all but very few
parents.
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10.11.15: Open Morning for prospective parents was held, this being well attended.
10.11.15: yrs 5-6 girls attended the inter-school football tournament at South Craven School.
11.11.15: Children from Oak and Willow Classes attended the annual remembrance service
at the Cenotaph in Sutton Park. This follows the schools selling of poppies, which is always
well supported by children.
 13.11.15: Children in Need in school saw children dressing as Superheroes, in fancy dress
and brining spare coins in, in order to raise money for charity.
 14.11.15: McMillan Coffee morning / Parents Open Morning was held in school
 26.1.15: The school’s Pupil-Parent Council held a ‘Christmas Shopping Night’ in school. This
was very well attended and raised £400. Alongside the funds raised from the Christmas Fair,
this will contribute towards funding class i-pads.
 5.12.15: Miss Margetson led the school choir at the annual ‘Carols in the Park’. Event in
Sutton Park.
 15.12.15: Afternoon and evening nativity performances were very well attended and well
received by parents and other family members.
 16.12.15: Children enjoyed their Christmas parities today, including a special visit from Santa!
 17.12.15: Our annual Carol Service was well attended at St Thomas’.
 18.12.15: The whole school enjoyed a trip to Skipton Auction Mart Theatre to9 see the panto
Jack and the Beanstalk.
Clubs on offer:
 Choir
 Bobbins clubs continues to offer a range of activities through the week, including baking, art
and construction.
 Football Club, run by ‘Clubs complete’, will be on offer this half-term.
 Gymnastics Club will be run by Leah Stubbington, Sports Coach who is funded through the
Sports Premium Funding.
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