School blog

14th October 2011

Nunthorpe to Apply for Academy Status

We wrote to parents and carers in May 2011 informing you all of our intention to research the ‘pros and cons’ of Academy status for our school.

This research exercise ran from January 2011 to September 2011 and was comprehensive and wide ranging. The final report from our Working Party was published in September and handed to all governors for their consideration.

13th October 2011

Parent Voice Group: TheGivingMachine

Nunthorpe School (Parent Voice Group friends of) are now registered with TheGivingMachine. Online purchases you make via TheGivingMachine trigger retailer donations to our school to boost our fund raising. It costs you absolutely nothing! It’s free to join! You shop, they give – it really is as simply as that.

There are lots of affiliated online shops attached to TheGivingMachine eg. Amazon, ebay, Tesco, Play.com, Argos, Next, M&S, John Lewis, Sainsburys, Toys R Us, Asda, Debenhams, Littlewoods and many many more and there are new ones being added all the time.

30th September 2011

Year 7 Tutor Evening

We would like to invite you to a Year 7 Tutor Evening on Thursday 6 October 2011. The purpose of the evening is for you to meet with your child’s tutor to discuss any pastoral issues which may have arisen during the first few weeks at secondary school.

It is important to note that this will not be an academic review evening, the date for this has been scheduled as Thursday 21 June 2012. You will however, receive regular interim data informing you of your child’s academic progress throughout the year.

28th September 2011

The New Academic Year has well and truly begun!

We are sure you are all aware of our record results for the Summer 2011 examination season. We are incredibly proud of our students and all their achievements and would like to take this opportunity to once again say a proud ‘Well Done’ to all of them.

Of course, these celebrations are always short lived as we turn our attention to supporting the students who will undertake public examinations this academic year. We are always trying to find new ways to ensure even higher standards and maximum support for these young people.

21st September 2011

‘Introduction to Year 12’ Parents Evening

I would like to invite you to our ‘Introduction to Year 12’ Parents Evening on Thursday 29 September, 6.00 – 7.30pm in the Nunthorpe Sixth Form building. As a result of parental feedback we are putting on an evening to give all parents the chance to find out some essential information about the Nunthorpe Sixth Form, courses and opportunities available, as well as the build up to University applications.

15th September 2011

Appointment of a Partnership Governor.

There is a vacancy for a Partnership Governor on the Governing Body of Nunthorpe School. The Governing Body is now seeking nominations from interested parties, including parents and members of the community. Do you know someone whom you would like to nominate for consideration by the Governing Body?

6th September 2011

Welcome to our “Carnival” Year 6 Open Evening

It gives me great pleasure to write to you and invite you to our Year 6 Open Evening on Thursday 15 September 2011, 6.00 – 9.00 pm.

Here at Nunthorpe School we aim for excellence and this event will hopefully show how committed and innovative we are. The theme for this event is “Carnival”, team games, science experiments, origami flowers, finger puppets and live music are but a few activities which will be running during the evening.

6th September 2011

Welcome to Nunthorpe Evening for Year 6

We are holding our annual Welcome to Nunthorpe Evening on the above date next week.

During this evening we invite Primary Year 6 students and parents to tour our school campus and join in the many activities that are being delivered.

As you will appreciate this is a very important evening for Nunthorpe – we are sure you will remember the evening well when your child/children joined our school.

25th August 2011

Nunthorpe’s GCSE Examination Results

We have set another new School Record!