School Newsletters
Welcome back! I hope you all had a fun filled half term and enjoyed the 5th of November fireworks…
I hope this letter finds you and your family well. I am thrilled to introduce myself as the new Headteacher of Kettlethorpe High School…
As we draw to the end of another very busy and successful academic year, the following news items may be of interest to you…
It really is hard to think that we are now heading into the final half-term holiday of the academic year with only seven weeks remaining before the long summer break…
It has been really nice getting to and from school with the longer days and also the occasional sunny day too!…
As we work towards the end of the second week of a five-week half-term, the school would like to share the following news items and information details…
As we work towards the February half-term break, the following news items are being shared with families…
It has been good to return to school after a Christmas break that allowed families time to relax after the Christmas festivities and family gatherings…
School certainly continues to be very busy as we look to enter the final week of a long 15 week autumn term…
We are now heading into December, and the last three weeks of what has been a very busy and productive term…
This week is a busy week in the working life of the school and the following news items may assist families with plans and arrangements…
We are now into the final week of an eight week half-term and I would like to recognise the efforts that pupils’ have been putting in as well as thanking families for their interest and support…
As we get to the mid-point of the first half-term of the academic year there are a few notices the school would like to communicate to families. These are noted below…
Following the recent return to school for the new academic year, we are pleased to report that the pupils really have made an excellent start…
As we draw to the end of another busy academic year, the school’s final newsletter of the year has information that details both our finishing day as well as the start back in September…
We are now working towards the end of a busy year in school and there are a number of important messages that we need to communicate to you…
This is a somewhat broken half-term in school as the current six week teaching block involves two bank holiday Mondays…
Having returned from the Easter break, we are all looking forward to the better weather that will allow school to open up the playing fields to pupils at lunchtime…
This really has been a very busy half-term in the life of the school and on Friday we will all be breaking up for the Easter holidays…
School continues to be busy and we have all been impressed with the pupils’ approach to work and study since the return from the half-term break…
KETTLETHORPE HIGH SCHOOL – Letter to Parents/Carers 24 February – from Tudor Griffiths Headteacher Kettlethorpe High School, Wakefield
KETTLETHORPE HIGH SCHOOL – MEDIA STATEMENT 24 February – from Tudor Griffiths Headteacher Kettlethorpe High School, Wakefield
You may be aware from media coverage that the National Education Union (NEU) have declared strike action which will take place nationally on five more days in February and March…
You may be aware from media coverage that the National Education Union (NEU) have declared strike action which will take place nationally on six days in February and March…
We are now getting towards the end of a very busy and successful autumn term…
We are now entering a busy week in the life of the school and have a number of information updates for families. These are contained within this newsletter…
Today has been a busy day in school despite the inclement weather. It certainly feels a long time ago that our lessons were being delivered in rooms that had hit 35 degrees centigrade…
The term is well underway and staff and pupils have now settled back into the well-established routines that are part of working and attending a large secondary school…
This week, we have seen the return to school for the new academic year 2022-23…
This will be the school’s last newsletter of the year, and what a year it has been too…
As we work towards the final week of what has been an unprecedented year, the following news items will help us all with the end of term arrangements as well as the return to school in September…
It really is nice writing with the current warm weather and knowing, that increasingly, the school is returning to more familiar and regular routines…
School is beginning to see pupil attendance figures back to almost pre-Covid-19 percentages. This means we are hitting the 94/95% overall attendance whole school…
We are now at the end of the half-term and looking forward to the half-term break….
The school community continues to deal with high Covid-19 infection rates, which has had a significant impact on the number of teachers we have available to deploy…
You will be aware, that due to high Covid infection rates, we are struggling to staff all the timetabled lessons with school teachers and/or supply staff this week…
We are now nearing the end of our second week back at school following the Christmas holiday. The year has started with increased Covid-19 protocols which are due to be reviewed by the government on Wednesday 26 January…
We are now nearing the end of our second week back at school following the Christmas holiday. The year has started with increased Covid-19 protocols which are due to be reviewed by the government on Wednesday 26 January…
We look forward to welcoming our pupils back into school on Wednesday 5th January. Please find below updated information about the return to school this week….
As well you know, this has been a challenging term and the school would like to thank both pupils and families for their support and patience over the last 14 weeks…
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement over the weekend, the school has now received updated guidance from the Department for Education (DfE). This details the following recommendations…
The term continues to fly by, and on the whole, we are continuing with our normal routines as best we can. Things are still being influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic and the school continues to monitor this situation very closely…
We are now in our second full week following the October half-term break. The school would like to both recognise and thank families for their ongoing support. Whilst the school is ‘up and running’, things are not normal and we are dealing with a lot of teacher and pupil absence from school…
This has been a difficult half-term to manage as the school does its best to return to a more normal sort of working routine. The Covid-19 pandemic is still causing issues and is having an impact on the attendance of both pupils and staff…
We are now nearing the end of the fourth week in school following the summer break. Things are working well and we are hovering at the 90% figure for pupil attendance. Normally, this would be at 96%. It is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic is still impacting on our lives…
It certainly has been a busy and productive week in school, despite a very wet day on Tuesday. The pupils are now settled into their new routines and are responding well to the learning on offer from their teachers…
It really has been great to be back in school with all of our pupils. Very well done to everyone on such a positive start and for the sensible and calm manner in settling back with new routines…