Summer is coming!!

It's the final countdown.

8^th June 2022

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome to the last half term! I cannot believe how fast this year has gone, we began in September with Covid restrictions still in place and have emerged from that cloud back into the St Martha’s we know and love.

We have a packed last few weeks, which will include the children getting to know their new teachers. Your child’s new class teacher will contact you at the beginning of next week to let you know who they are and when the parent’s meetings will take place.

End of term reports are also due out this half term, following these you have an opportunity to leave your feedback on a form and if you would like to you can make an additional appointment to meet with your child’s class teacher.

We have staff leaving us at the end of the year, and some staff will be moving year groups.

Mrs Fysh is leaving following the completion of her teacher training, as she has secured a job at Green Park academy. We congratulate her and wish her well; she has been at the school for 16 years in a variety of roles! Year 1 Blue will be taught by Miss Fisher, an experienced local teacher, who did some of her pre-training at St Martha’s 8 years ago.

Mr Hornigold, our caretaker is retiring at the end of term after being at the school for 8 years. He will be replaced by a site manager, Paul Bowman, who will oversee some of our maintenance and small building works as well as carrying out the caretaker role.

Mrs Hayden (our school support manager) is leaving to go on maternity leave on 1^st July, her replacement will be Mrs Dransfield.

Miss Brennock and Miss Lowe are also both going on maternity leave at the end of term, their babies are due in August.

Lastly, Mr Gray who has been covering maternity in year 3 Blue will be leaving us as the job comes to an end. We hope to see him back some time in the future, and wish him well for his next adventure!

Please see below for the class structure for next year:

Class Structures 2022/2023

EYFS and Key Stage 1

	Reception Blue	Reception Yellow	Year 1 Blue	Year 1 Yellow	Year 2 Blue	Year 2 Yellow
Teacher	Mrs Guyatt	Mrs Child (4 days) Miss Drake (1 day)	Miss Fisher	Mrs DeLuca	Mrs Chapman (3 days) Mrs Odell (2 days)	Miss Easter (4 days) Ms McGovern (1 day)
Support Staff	Mrs Honhold	Mrs McKenna (3 days)	Mrs Whitmore	Mrs Belcher	Mrs Reeve	Mrs Myers
	TBC	Mrs Defty	Mrs Manser	Mrs Holmes	Mrs Frony O Shea	Mrs McPhearson
		Mrs McGovern (2 days)

Key Stage 2

	Year 3 Blue	Year 3 Yellow	Year 4 Blue	Year 4 Yellow	Year 5 Blue	Year 5 Yellow	Year 6 Blue	Year 6 Yellow
Teacher	Mrs Symonds	Miss Jackman	Ms Bredin	Mrs Doherty	Mrs McGovern	Mr Odell	Miss Annely (3 days) Mrs Shine (2 days)	Mr Kelly
Support Staff	Miss Hawes	Mrs Mickulova	Mrs Gray	Miss Arbon	Mrs Landles	Miss Taylor	Mrs Bunting	Mrs Smith
	Miss Ethrington	Miss Ethrington	Miss Holmes				Miss Gore
	Mrs Doherty

Here are a list of dates for our events in the coming weeks. Please also see the school website for details of class assemblies and trips.

June

9^th Initial Food Festival meeting 3.30
10^thSchool disco 4.15 -5.15 Reception and key stage 1
5.30-6.30 key stage 2
12^th School car boot sale 8.00 am – 1pm

July

6^th Year 6 production 5-6pm
7^th Year 6 production 5-6pm

After this we will have a leaving event for Mr McGovern which was postponed from December. The plan at the moment is to have a bring and share picnic on the field, more details to follow.

11^th Sports Day Reception and KS 1 (Rain off day 18^th)
13^th Sports Day KS 2 (Rain off 19^th)
Food Festival (3-5pm)
15^th School Fair (from 3pm)
21^st Year 6 Leaver’s assembly

We also break up on this day.

I look forward to seeing lots of you over the coming weeks at our events, and wish you a happy and blessed half term.

Best wishes

Mrs Pink

Headteacher