Dear Parents and Carers,

We reach the end of another sunny and eventful week here at De Havilland. I often find at this time of year, so much is happening in school, it can be a tricky job merely keeping up with all of the fun and memorable events let alone organising them! So a thank you to all of the staff, children and families who are working together to ensure the children experience as much joy as possible at this time of year. 

I have to start this week by paying huge credit to those children who represented our school at District Sports on Wednesday. De Havilland finished 2nd out of ten schools but most importantly, the conduct of and sportsmanship shown by our children was exemplary and we received many compliments from members of other schools regarding this. I have to also pay tribute once again to Mr. Power and Miss Kilby who were supportive and organised throughout and have once again shown themselves to be a real asset to sport at De Havilland. 

Today we waved goodbye to a large proportion of our Year Six children who are spending the weekend at Willersley Castle in Derbyshire on their end of year residential. We are so excited for this trip as it is the first occasion in my time here that the children have ventured so far for an end of year trip. The setting for the long weekend as well as the range of activities on offer for them is the most impressive I have seen in my time working in the profession. I am really looking forward to joining them on Sunday and spending the day with them all. We will be running both our Year Five and Year Six residentials during the next academic year (and beyond!) so I hope for parents with children further down the school, this is something you will strongly encourage your children to participate in: the memories created on these trips really do last a lifetime!

Next week we are all looking forward to our De Hav fest on Friday 4th July. There will be the usual collection of stalls as well as one or two new additions for this year and we hope to see as many of you there as possible! I should also add a reminder at this point of the INSET day which follows this, on Monday 7th July, when school will be closed for all children.

Wishing you all a very pleasant weekend,

Mr. Bostock