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My previous local authority has now switched to the
‘six term year’. This means that they break
for the Easter weekend, but then return to school
for a further two weeks before they have their spring
holiday - which is ‘fixed’ each year. I
wonder what you, as parents, would feel about this
arrangement, if introduced in Leeds?
I hope that you are aware of changes to school routines
(mentioned below), particularly the closures next
week (before half-term). These are for staff training,
accounted for out of our CPD
time. As I have mentioned in previous newsletters,
overall there has been an increase in actual teaching
time at Priesthorpe School this year compared to previous
years.
On February 6th our Training Day is being led by Andy
Vass, a leading consultant on classroom practice and
someone who has worked with us before.
This newsletter describes some of the activities going
on at school - but there is not enough space to cover
items such as the highly successful ‘Holocaust
Drama’ or ‘Champion’ events.
Perhaps we can include them in our next newsletter,
when we can also report on some of the forthcoming school
visits.
Mr Hall
Headteacher |
