Headteachers Update 20th May 2022

We all look forward to Friday afternoons when we come together to celebrate our achievements across the week. Last week our Year 6 children felt really proud of themselves after a week of SAT’s. They were amazing, showing determination to do their best, resilience to keep going when they found things tricky and being very supportive of their classmates. Well done to all our Year 6’s.

This week, our reception children were incredible too; when Mr Unwin and the Early Years team welcomed 18 visitors from 15 schools across York. They spent the morning observing Team Robin in their maths lesson and then spent time with all our reception children in the Areas of Provision. They were very impressed with how children so young were transferring their maths skills to their independent play activities. Well done to Mr Unwin, his staff team and all the children.

Earlier this week, Mrs Ellis, Miss George and myself were incredibly lucky to attend a 2 day conference with CHIMP Management in Sheffield. Our partnership with the team began last December when our school was host to Professor Steve Peters and his team for the ‘Professor Bright Spark pantomime’ and we were truly inspired by their work. Over the next few months, we will be continuing our work with them to look at how we can incorporate their model around well-being here at Hob Moor.  We went to  learn more about how his focus on wellbeing has supported people over the last 30 years to become their best self – including some names you will recognise – Ronnie O’Sullivan, Sir Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins  and Victoria Pendleton to name a few! It’s all very exciting!