Dear parents and carers,
It has been a wonderful week here in school, we were all delighted to welcome our children and families back to school on Wednesday, we have missed you all so much over the summer holidays…It was lovely to hear how much you had missed us too! The children across school have settled in excellently and have been working hard in their new classes with their teachers and friends.
I hope you managed to find some time together over the summer break to make some special family memories, I know I did (see overleaf) but I was ready to get back to school and get back into a routine and I bet you were too!
For the children and families who are just starting their journey at Common Road, we are delighted to welcome you into our school family, I know that you will be very well looked after by the staff, children, parents and community…this is a very special place to come to school.
My vision for our school is simple, I want to work with families to ensure that our children get the very best start to their education here at Common Road. I am passionate that children in the early years and KS1 learn to become fluent in the basicsof reading, writing and maths and that this will build strong foundations for learning as they go through school.
We will recognise each child as an individual, and we are committed to the social and emotional development of all children. We will work with children and their families to help them manage their feelings and behaviour so that they can develop relationships with others and grow up to be happy and healthy. We will work with families to ensure that our children grow to have good values and morals which will allow them to be good members of our community and our world.
I alongside the staff and governors at Common Road look forward to being part of this journey with you and your child.
Exciting news!
We were nominated and successfully chosen to be a RWI filming school in the summer term! This is exciting for the school and team as it means our teaching will be used to train other teachers nationally via the RWI portal. This means that some of our RWI lessons and tutoring will be filmed this academic year. It is a great opportunity for our school to branch out to national work and will ensure our teaching remains the very best. In order to do this work we need nearly all children to have permission to be filmed for this training website. Attached is the form for you to complete. If we do not get enough parental support the opportunity will need to be offered to another school. So please sign these and send them back asap!
Diary Dates – Attached to this newsletter are the diary dates for the autumn term. Please keep these safe (pop them on the fridge!) so you know what is happening for your child this term. There are so many opportunities to work together this term and for you to come into school and share some special milestones like your child’s nativity!
Overleaf is a letter to your child, please could you take the time to read this to them. This will hopefully tell them a little bit more about me as Headteacher of our school.
I very much look forward to working with you and your child and look forward to meeting you/catching up with you all in person over the coming weeks.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Edwards – Headteacher
Dear boys and girls at Common Road Infant and Nursery School,
Welcome to our school or for some boys and girls welcome back… I have really missed you!
I hope you all had a lovely summer holiday, I was thinking about you all and was wondering what you
might have been busy doing!
This week we have talked a lot about friendship and kindness. I have been over the moon to see
you all treating each other with love, care and kindness. This is the welcoming school we want all
our children to enjoy.
I joined the Common Road family in June 2021 as Headteacher coming from another Wakefield
School, I have to say it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I love our school and the
teachers and support staff here are the best I have ever worked with. I am biased but I also
think you might be the best children in Wakefield and you have lovely grown-ups who love and
support our school too.
I live in Wakefield with my little girl Posey who is 9. She has just started Year 5 which made her
feel excited and a bit worried! I love being a teacher and headteacher and my job is very
important to me. When I am not at school I love to be with my family which includes my pets. I
have six cats! Their names are Pumpkin, Marmalade, Tabatha, Juni, Liquorice and Cream.
From
Mrs Edwards
Headteacher