Headteachers update 16th December 2022

Merry Christmas everyone,

This week has been a very festive one but also an emotional one with a few goodbyes.

Thank you to Rev. Biddlestone for a lovely Christingle service, the children loved your Makaton skills, singing and humour! Thank you to those parents for joining us back in class to make a Christingle. UKS2 classes visited a church in York, St Michael Le Belfey for a Christingle session. The children did us proud in a very unfamiliar setting for some. Thank you to Ruth for arranging this visit.

Our lovely Janet Harris is retiring today! She has worked at Hob Moor for 16 years and has welcomed our children every morning for all of those years. She is a constant in our children’s day as she stands on the door to safeguard and welcome. We will miss Janet very much, she is a fantastic administrator and we wish her lots of love in her retirement! Goodbye Janet.

We also say goodbye to Gillian, Val, Di and Amy who are saying goodbye to HMO. Collectively with over 62 years of experience, you will be greatly missed. We wish you all luck in your next adventures, enjoy the rest and keep in touch!

We welcome Sorrel, Gemma, Meg and Charlotte in the new year to team HMO! We are excited to welcome Richard into our teaching team, Richard who is a TA in Trunks will be starting his level 6 teaching  apprenticeship in January!

Now for the thank yous. This term we have welcomed so many new staff and celebrated a fabulous Ofsted. We could not achieve this without the dedicated staff who make this school a community! Thank you to you all for your energy, creativity and support. Please have a wonderful Christmas holiday, rest and  recuperate ready for 2023! I look forward to seeing you all in January for our school production. The dates are as follows Wednesday 25th January at 10am and Thursday 26th at 1:30pm (the timings may change slightly due to the performance timings and groupings). Have a very merry Christmas!