Dear parents and carers,
We’ve made it! Happy Easter! It’s been an action-packed half-term, and everyone is looking forward to a very well-deserved rest. As ever, it has been a joy to watch the children going from strength to strength in their learning as well as in their wider curricular activities, and they continue to make us (and you) proud, every day.
Healthy Scarcroft
As you know, I’m determined to offer a fantastic sports offer at Scarcroft, promoting some of our key Scarcroft values such as ‘healthy’ and ‘determined’, and this term, children have represented us in a whole host of sports. They have played their socks off across the board and we think they’re amazing!
Dates for the diary
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Changes to the start of the school day
We’d like to trial a new way of children coming into school. The hope is that mornings will be calmer and more purposeful, and children can get on with their learning more quickly. Here’s the plan:
We will trial this for summer term, and make any adjustments as necessary. Many thanks for your support with this. If you have any further queries, please let us know.
Easter Raffle
A huge thank you to Lizzie Fathers for organising our Easter raffle which was a huge success, as usual. We’re so appreciative of all her efforts, and also so grateful for your contributions to ticket sales. All proceeds will go towards improving our offer for children!
Have a wonderful Easter break everyone!
Best wishes,
Jen Mitchell
Head of School
Reception – Fishergate: 93.95%
Reception – Petergate: 92.59%
Year 1 – Gillygate: 96.36%
Year 1 – Stonegate: 96.36%
Year 2 – Castlegate: 96.15%
Year 2 – Micklegate: 97.9%
Year 3 – Coppergate: 96.85%
Year 3 – Whip ma whop ma gate: 95%
Year 4 – Swinegate: 97.22%
Year 4 – Walmgate: 97.03%
Year 5 – Colliergate: 98.49%
Year 5 – Skeldergate: 96.08%
Year 6 – Fossgate: 97.02%
Year 6 – Goodramgate: 96.78%
If possible, could parents please donate compost or bark chips for the gardening club.
Thanks,
Kathryn Hardaker
July 2025 will see the inaugural Excel Staff Awards, where we will be celebrating the exceptional contributions of staff across our Trust. One of the award categories is Excelling Through Parent or Community Recognition, therefore we are extending our nomination process for this category to parents and carers.
Complete the nomination form below and help us honour those who go above and beyond! There’s no limit on the number of nominations you can submit – you just need to submit your nominee’s name, the school they work at and the reason for your nomination.
Art Camp at Scarcroft this Easter, with two incredible weeks of creative adventures
In our Mini Art Camp (ages 4–6), workshops are all about bringing stories to life, exploring movement, colour, and texture in playful, gentle ways. There are also sessions which are exploratory, perfect for little ones who love building, doodling, sculpting or just getting a bit gloriously messy, basically it’s all about having fun !
And for our Junior Art Camp (ages 6–11) – get ready for the ultimate creative adventure!
We’ve pulled together an unforgettable mix of filmmaking, street art, catwalk fashion, DJ workshops, 3D printing, and even walking with alpacas! This is not your average holiday club – it’s bold, exciting, expressive, and packed with opportunities for kids to discover new passions and build confidence in the most creative way possible.
Book here: https://artcampuk.
SCHOOL UNIFORM: Click here to purchase school uniform from our new supplier.
The children had the most fantastic time when Purple pig farm came to visit us. We were lucky enough to see a range of different animals including a calf, goats, rabbits, pigs and chicks. The children showed us how caring and gentle they are with animals!
The children became baker’s this week, making the most delicious easter bunny biscuits. They helped with the ingredients and used their rolling skills to create the perfect size biscuits.
Recognition Awards
Fishergate
Henry– For showing us how sensible you can be during your learning, using your listening skills and making sure you are being bronze. Also, for showing your independence skills in provision, finding areas that you enjoy and being creative. Well done Henry.
PeterGate
Leo C – For showing us a massive improvement in your learning, confidence and attitude. You have shown us how amazing you can be, wowing us with your listening skills, engagement in lessons and how kind you can be to your friends. Well done Leo.
In science we have been learning all about our five senses. Each week we have investigated a different sense and learnt all about our fantastic senses. Last week we learnt about hearing and tested our ears to see if they could recognise what was hiding in each pot when we shook it.
This half term in Computing we have become digital editors! We have practised our skills at using technology to take good photographs – ensuring that they are steady, clear and close-up. Then we transferred these photos to the computer to edit using the software sketch.io. We experimented with changing the size and colour of our images, as well as cropping them. We’ve learned so many valuable skills!
Recognition awards
Stonegate
Alma – For always working hard in class and setting a fantastic example to others with her good behaviour.
Theo P – For excellent presentation in writing, working really hard to form his letters correctly.
Rosie – Kindness Trophy – For always helping others and showing empathy when other children are upset.
Gillygate
Callum – For his dedication to improving his reading skills, and using his phonics knowledge to decode unfamiliar words.
Leo – For having such a positive attitude towards school, always cheerful and having such an infectious personality!
Arthur A. – Achievement Trophy – For always going above and beyond, ensuring he completes tasks and challenges to the best of his ability, which is shown in his achievements.
In DT, we had lots of fun designing and making our moving monsters using a linkage system.
In Geography, we investigated our local habitat and recorded our findings in a tally chart and bar chart.
In Computing, we have been learning to block code using the MakeCode program. The children have loved creating a series of simple microbit codes.
Recognition Awards
Castlegate
Diyar – for joining in fully in lessons
Saul – for his innovation and enthusiasm
Micklegate
Iana – for outstanding work across the curriculum and putting in 100% effort
Jimmy – huge improvements in his reading and writing.
Art – Making sculptures
We have been exploring the art topic of sculpture recently, beginning with an exploration of how to make 2D shapes into 3D ones. Using cardboard boxes, we drew, cut and used a range of techniques from folding and slotting pieces together to make a 3 Dimensional sculpture that stood up by itself!
PE – Dance
Over the past half term, with Ms Topliss, we have been developing motifs to form a 1 minute dance routine. We explored different groupings, levels, movements and unison elements to create incredible routines we were all proud of..
Recognition Awards
Coppergate
Polya – For her curiosity and wonderful attitude to learning across all her subjects, especially in her writing where she shows fantastic creativity.
Zain – For settling in so well and working hard to show what he is capable of, especially in maths and writing.
Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate
Iris- For being 100% her humorous self and cheering everyone up when needed. Giving each piece of work her maximum effort too!
The whole class- For being the most helpful, if not slightly bonkers class a teacher could ask for! Everyone is showing a real difference in their resilience and attitude towards their learning throughout the year so far.
We showed that we were excellent geographers on our river study walks last week.
We have finished our Science unit by producing some excellent posters showing our understanding of how viscosity can have a real-life application in pharmacology when designing cough mixtures.
We’ve loved writing our own version of ‘Return’!
Recognition Awards
Walmgate
Stephen – for amazing determination and his all round positive, can do attitude
Elizabeth – for always being a super learner and giving 100% effort to every lesson and task
Robin – Kindness trophy: for always being incredibly kind and supportive with everyone in our class
Swinegate
Ethan – for excellent focus and effort during our recent assessments
Daisy – for great quality work across the curriculum this half term
DT and Writing
Year 5 have loved Reading Return and our persuasive texts are very persuasive! Especially as we have combined our DT and they have pop-up mechanisms to enhance them.
We had a Basketball Tournament. It was refereed by 2 of our Basketball experts.
Recognition Awards
Skeldergate
Satvik – Fabulous progress this Spring term especially in Writing. Well done. Super member of the class – very polite.
Takeshi – Super writing and DT with the Return project. Amazing friend and helper to a child new to our school. Well done
In Mrs and Mr Roper’s class, the children have been continuing to coach each other in PE lessons. Each week two children have been planning a training session and then coaching the rest of the class (under supervision!) This week it was football and rumour has it Mr Roper even joined in when one of the teams was a player short.
The Year 6 classes have also been reading The Return by Aaron Becker. The children have done some lovely writing and created artwork to go on display.
Recognition Awards
Julia – Julia has had an amazing year and she has maintained her positivity, hard-working ethic and good humour throughout. Amazing.
Siya – When Siya first joined us she did not know much English. However, Siya has shown her kindness and helpfulness through her actions.
Eva – Achievement Trophy – Eva is a legend in the school and has been a role-model throughout the school. At the moment she is matching this with great achievement in her work, particularly in raising her arithmetic score.
