STAYNOR HALL ACADEMY NEWSLETTER
Friday 13th March 2026
STAYNOR HALL ACADEMY NEWSLETTER
Friday 13th March 2026
Dear Families
We have thoroughly enjoyed perforamances from our Rock Steady bands this afternoon! The children have performed on drums, guitar, bass, keyboard and vocals and showed confidence and star performaing qualities! What a treat for the end of our week in school.
Next week (Monday) we have our seccond parents evening, if you have not yet made an appointment there is stilll time so please contact the school office if you require an appointment but you are unsure of how to go about it, it would be great to see all of our parents if possible to dissucss your child's progess.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Kind regards
Mrs Winter
If you have a concern about the safety or welfare of a child in school please contact myself,
Mrs Cowling or Ms Steunou who are the safeguarding leads.
Move to Instagram from X
We now have a School Instagram account where all our updates will be posted. This is to replace X.
Please follow https://www.instagram.com/staynor.hall.primary/ to receive all our updates
Midday Supervisor Vacancy
(Closing date: Midday, Monday 20th March 2026)
10 hours per week: 11.30am - 1.30pm, Monday to Friday
£12.65- £12.85 per hour, plus 6 weeks paid holiday
The role is to care for, support and interact with children during the lunchtime period, which includes helping the children access the lunch service. A key part of this role is to supervise the children on the playground during their lunchtime break.
If you are interested in applying, please follow the link below
Apple AirTag and tracking children on school trips
It has been brought to our attention both locally and nationally that parents/carers are using devices such as the Apple AirTag to track children on school residentials/trips/visits/outings. Other devices can also include electronic watches that are essentially tracking devices with the capability of sending video footage from the device back to the person tracking i.e. parent. Such devices have the potential to post locations of children’s whereabouts on social media. We are therefore advising schools to include this in the consent slip which parents sign prior to taking part in a trip that such devices will not be allowed under any circumstances and must not be hidden in pockets/bags etc. If any tracking devices are found on pupils they will not be allowed on the trip and will be returned to school.
Apple have released the statement below which can be found on their website:
“AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people or another person’s property, and we condemn in the strongest possible terms any malicious use of our products”
We are an allergy aware school.
Nuts are prohibited on school site, and should not be put in children's packed lunches or brought in as a playtime snack.
Including school trips and events.
Thank you
What's Cooking?
This week I have been working with Team Aire. We have been making healthy sandwiches. We have particularly focussed on what makes a healthy sandwich and have been introduced to what food group each food item belongs to (protein, dairy, carbohydrate, fruit/vegetable, spreads/oils). We have also looked at whether our food comes from a plant or an animal.
The children have had the opportunity to use new skills including spreading and cutting. They then had the opportunity to eat their sandwich whilst listening to the story of The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Well done to all of the children this week, they have all worked so hard and their sandwiches looked delicious! I will continue to work with Team Aire next week and also begin to work with Team Wharfe.
Mrs Soper
Cook School Lead
16th March - Parents Evening 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
17th March - Non-uniform Day in exchange for chocolate (Easter bingo hampers)
19th March - FOSHA's Easter Bingo (Further information will be shared)
27th March - Easter Bonnet Parade
27th March - Last day of school
30th March - 10th April - Easter Holidays
13th April - School reopens
4th May - Bank Holiday
22nd May - FOSHA's Colour Run (Further information will be shared)
25th - 29th May - May half term
9th June - No After School Club
15th June - FOSHA's Super Hero Shop (Further information will be shared)
19th June - Teacher Training Day
3rd July - Summer Fayre (Further information will be shared)
14th July - FOSHA's Summer Disco Shop (Further information will be shared)
17th July - FOSHA's Foam Party (Further information will be shared)
17th July - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
One of our Key Stage One children has been up to some incredible fundraising for Little Princess Trust to transform her long hair into a free wig for someone who is battling cancer and other treatments. In less than a day Ada raised over £290. If she can reach her target of £700 this will cover the cost of making, fitting and styling of the wig.
We are incredibly proud of the choices, dedication and thoughtfulness that Ada has shown through this.
Click here to donate to the Little Princess Trust and support Ada
For anyone that is interested, there is a free Fitsteps taster dance session running at Staynor Hall Community Centre on Sunday 8th March at 10.30am. The session is being run by Angela, an award winning fitness instructor, and is basically a fitness session, with a dance theme, aimed at people of all abilities who want to get moving. The actual class runs on a Wednesday evening at Staynor Hall Community Centre at 7.00 pm - 7.45pm. The ladies that attend are really friendly and welcoming. If anyone is interested in attending the taster session or have any questions, please contact Angela on 07833 224 332.