Head Teachers Blog

It is a lovely tradition at NKS that the culmination of the children’s geography unit on mountains and rivers ends with a debate on which geographical feature is best for a holiday. The children spent a lot of time researching and preparing their argument (writing to …

Every year the governors, staff and I update our 3-year school improvement plan to ensure we are always doing our best for your children.   We have a three-year plan as this encourages more long-term thinking and enables us to ensure projects are properly implemented and …

Every year we have children who have a day off or a holiday in term time and we are told they are sick. What parents may not realise is the other children tell us where they are, or the child themselves announces that they are going to be sick tomorrow to the class teacher. When …

Next week we will be having our harvest assembly in school. An important part of this joyful event is donating items to the North Oxfordshire Foodbank. Our culture of kindness really comes out here as the foodbank always comments on how generous we are for this worthy cause.    …

I want to extend a massive thank you to some very intrepid dads who cycled the Ridgeway 100 this year raising funds for the school along with their heartrates. I was amazed when they got in touch and told me they had managed to raise around £1,400!!! A phenomenal amount and a …

The British Library has launched a delightful initiative to encourage children to make their own miniature books. Miss Claxton and I were really taken with this and have shared this with the children at NKS. We would love to see the children become authors and create their own …

Bella from Ash class was thrilled recently to be able to meet Prince William and Princess Catherine. Mum has said this is something ‘they can look back on forever’.  The necklace you can see William wearing, Bella and I made it for him. She got to give it to him and …

I continue to be amazed at all the care and kindness we receive from our families and the community at NKS. Here are some of the many recent donations we have received towards the school and our library and Wild Garden Projects: £114 from students at St Clare’s College who held …

You may remember that for many years, the school’s strapline has been Enjoy, Achieve, Succeed but after all the work we have done on our vision and culture, we felt in need of a change.  We asked staff, Governors, you and our school council to vote on their favourite and we have …

This year we have moved to a new phonics scheme to better help the children learn to read. The new government guidance on reading is very clear and the books the school gives children to read must be fully decodable. What this means is that the children should be able to read …