Rishi Sunak Visit We were very proud and privileged to welcome Mr Rishi Sunak to Bainbridge School on Friday last week. It was quite exciting and interesting to witness the work of the security team around him, and to learn more about how he divides his time between Richmondshire and Westminster. Mr Sunak was extremely impressed Read more…
Assessment Week The children have been completing their maths, reading, and spelling/grammar tests this week. The results will be with you in due course. As ever, they have demonstrated excellent resilience and a good attitude towards assessments. None of these assessments are statutory this year but help us to build Read more…
Height and Weight Measuring The Healthy Child Team will be in our schools on Wednesday 23 June to take the height and weight of our Reception and Year 6 children. This is part of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Parents will receive a letter regarding this. You do have the Read more…
Reading Deep Dive Colleagues from the Diocesan School Improvement team visited Askrigg on Wednesday to complete their deep dive into reading across our federation. It has been heartening to hear validation of the hugely positive impact of Read, Write, Inc. We have also talked through our new ‘Power of Reading’ approach and Read more…
Reading Deep-Dive As part of our curriculum development work with our diocese, we had a full day on Wednesday at Bainbridge and West Burton exploring and evaluating our reading provision with two school improvement colleagues from the diocese. The day was called a ‘deep dive’ into reading provision and mirrored the approach that an Ofsted Read more…
The Story of Schools The Dales Countryside Museum (DCM) in Hawes will re-open with a special exhibition telling The Story of Schools in the Upper Dales. The exhibition will open at DCM on 17 May, and run till 18 July 2021. It marks the culmination of a project run by The NASH in partnership with the museum, and funded by The National Read more…
Uniform May I remind parents of our uniform policy which can be found here on our website. The aims of our policy are as follows: To set a high standard of presentation for pupils at school To make clear to the whole school community the expectation of uniform at The Read more…
Maths – Ready to Progress? Your children may have told you that we are doing maths in a new way at BAWB. On training day, we introduced a style of teaching maths that is designed to help children catch up and to ensure that they are ready for their next Read more…
Class timetables and curriculum overview Summer term Apologies in the delay of getting these out – please find attached the class timetables and curriculum overviews for summer term 2021. After School Clubs Cycle Club – Unfortunately, due to very low take up of this club, it will not be taking place on Read more…
Reading One of the curriculum sessions during our training day on Monday was a very inspiring session led by Miss Collins about the launch of ‘The Power of Reading’ Here she tells us some more about this exciting approach to reading …. One of the key areas in which we Read more…
