Year 1 Phonics Family Learning

8th November 2025Carly Schon

Year 1 staff would like to invite you to our Phonics Family Learning event! The event will take place on Thursday 27th November 9:00am-10:00am. The session will be a live phonics lesson taught by Miss Schön or Miss Rodgers. You are invited to join your child in their phonics lesson so that you can understand how your child learns phonics in school.

Unfortunately we are unable to cater for younger siblings at this event as this will be the children’s daily phonics lesson.

The school hall will be open from 8:30am for hot drinks. Please access school via the hall. We ask that you arrive on time for a 9am start so as not to disrupt the children’s lesson with late arrivals.

We hope you can join us! Please let us know if you can make it or not by filling out the Google form below. This will help us to effectively plan for the number of adults planning to attend.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmNB7XKzO6-yvTjvnh9Cccp_vjOtwx3py4P2E6YNu7EkFqMA/viewform?usp=header

Thank you,

Miss Schön and Miss Rodgers

key stage 1 community crew

7th November 2025Aime Shaw

We had so many celebrations today and certificates handed out! As always, well done to our fabulous stewards, HOWL point winners, healthy choices award winners, tt rock stars and numbots winners! You are all doing such an amazing job! I wanted to say a huge well done to Mia- our very first sparkly pencil winner…I am so impressed with your handwriting! Well done to Crew Rodgers for getting their first attendance award…absolutely amazing! Finally well done to our fantastic crew champions…we hope your grown ups are just as proud of you as we are!

Have a lovely weekend! X x

Thorne Christmas Light Switch On!

7th November 2025Sophie Myers

KS2 Choir will be taking part in Thorne’s Christmas Light Switch on and performing Christmas songs again this year.

If you would like to take part but don’t come to choir, don’t worry .. you can still come along and sing with us!

The light switch on will take place on Friday 28th November – stage times will be shared soon along with the list of songs that we will be singing!

As always, children are invited to wear Christmas hats/headbands etc!

Mrs Spetch

Sharing our Stories: 07/11/2025

7th November 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

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Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

ODD SOCKS DAY!

6th November 2025Sophie Myers

Odd Socks Day marks the start of Anti-Bullying Week. Odd Socks Day 2025 is taking place on Monday 10th November. It is supported by cBeebies presenter & ABA patron Andy Day and his band ‘Andy and the Odd Socks’.

Click on the link below to find out more information about Odd Socks Day:

https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/anti-bullying-week-2025/odd-socks-day/what-odd-socks-day#:~:text=Odd%20Socks%20Day%20marks%20the,Andy%20and%20the%20Odd%20Socks’.

Year 3 – A special visit from Specsavers

6th November 2025Claire Dutton

Today, Year 3 were treated to a visit by two lovely ladies from Specsavers in Thorne. They told us all about how our eyes work and why somebody might need glasses. Did you know … our eyes actually see things upside down?

Remember – if you think your eyesight might be a little blurry, whether from a distance or close up, then get yourself down to Specsavers for an eye test!