Diana from Blue Cross (Pet Rescue) came to host an assembly at our school. She talked to us about: how to look after pets; what pets require (food, water, care, love, exercise) and the importance of being kind to animals. Our children learnt, through role play, how to approach an unknown dog and the three Cs of canine choice - check, call, count. Check is asking the owner if you can stroke the dog, call is calling the dog to you by patting your legs and saying 'Hello' and count is when you count three strokes and give the dog the choice to walk away or stay. 

What a brilliant and very informative assembly for our pet-loving pupils!

Children wore non-uniform and brought a donation for the charity Newlife - The Charity for Disabled Children, which has supported a pupil and his family by providing essential equipment. We raised £71.00, thank you.

This year we supported PAFRAS with donations of food and raised £57.80 for the Christian Aid Harvest Eco Veg appeal, thank you.

Children wore jeans or non uniform to school to raise money for the Jeans for Genes charity. We raised £73.00, thank you.

On Friday 6^th September we welcomed Nigel Adams MP to our school. As part of our Brilliantly British theme the children are learning about parliament and elections. Nigel spoke to the children in assembly and then visited each class. He spoke to the children about his role and then answered questions from the children which included “Have you seen Big Ben?”, Do you have to stand up for a long time?” and “What do you think about Brexit?”. Thank you to Martin Simpson, our Vice Chair of Governors for organising the visit and to Rebecca Jackson, our Chair of Governors for joining us for assembly.  

On Monday 11^th June classes 2, 3 and 4 visited the Church of the Ascension in Whixley. The main focus of the visit was to learn about the window which the Church is currently raising money to be restored. Children also looked at other interesting parts of the Church and the grounds. Thank you to Mr Atkinson and Mrs Fisher for helping us with the visits, both children and staff thoroughly enjoyed their time in the Church and it was lovely to visit a local place of worship. The children are now completing art work about the window and this will be displayed the Church from 17^th to 21^st June, please do go and visit.

On Sunday 19th May the FOGHS team organised our second Scarecrow Festival with a theme of Heroes and Villains. It was a fantastic event where families and visitors followed a trail around the many scarecrows, voted for their favourites and enjoyed refreshments and games in Whixley and on the school field. Thank you to FOGHS for all of their hard work.