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Newsletter 26 March 2026

Today we say goodbye to our Headteacher, Corrine Penhale after 19 years at Rossett Acre. We hope you enjoy your retirement.

Newsletter 13 March 2026

Well done to 8 of our children who visited Rossett Nature Reserve to do some litter picking. The collected 3 bags of rubbish.

Newsletter 5 March 2026

Children celebrated World Book Day with the theme of "Inspirational People". It was great to see so many of our children dressed up.

Newsletter 22 January 2026

We were delighted to host 29 Chinese Principals/Vice Principals from 21 different schools across China as part of a six day inquiry programme across the UK.

Newsletter 17 October 2025

We are proud to announce that Mrs Robinson and Miss Pearson received Gold for the school category in the Harrogate in Bloom competition.

Newsletter 9 October 2025

Children celebrated Harvest Festival at St Mark's Church. The generous donations from parents have been given to the local Food Bank. Thank you, it is very much appreciated.

Newsletter 18 September 2025

This week has been another busy week with amazing learning happening all over school. We continue to embed our new One Life morning routine which starts the day off in a calm way ensuring we are all ready to do our best learning.

Newsletter 17 July 2025

We have come to the end of another fantastic year at Rossett Acre. Read our final newsletter to see what has been happening in school this week.

Newsletter 26 June 2025

Some of our musicians played and sang at Harrogate Grammar School's Encore music event. Thank you to HGS for hosting this vent.

Newsletter 19 June 2025

Some of our KS2 children took part in the Brownlee mini Triathlon last week. They were so excited to meet the Brownlee brothers.

Newsletter 12 June 2025

We had over a hundred fantastic entries to our Rossett Show. Well done to our parent Jenny Marks and to Edward R who won best in show.

The Heart of Teaching: Why School Trips Matter

Our Trust Educational Visits Coordinator and Science Teacher at Harrogate Grammar School, Joanne Sutcliffe, reflects on the value of school trips, not just for students but for the colleagues who make them possible.

Newsletter 22 May 2025

This week children have enjoyed taking part in Art Week, producing some amazing artwork. KS1 have also enjoyed an Outdoor Classroom Day, taking their learning outside.

CEO, Richard Sheriff, Announces Retirement.

Richard Sheriff, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the Red Kite Learning Trust has made the decision to retire from his leadership position and look to pursue his many other interests both within and beyond education.

Rossett Acre Show 2025

Our Rossett Acre Show is back. Take a look at the categories and see what you could enter. There is something for everyone. The theme this year is "Caring for our Earth".

Newsletter 15 May 2025

Following on from their class discussions about VE Day, Ozzy S in Year 5 brought in his Great-great Grandfather's World War 1 medals.

Newsletter 1 May 2025

Today is the last day of our Book Fair. Thank you to everyone for supporting this and raising much needed funds for school.

Newsletter 3 April 2025

As part of our Great Big School Clean, some of our families have been litter picking in the community. We are so proud of their efforts.

Newsletter 27 March 2025

Well done to our two Y6 netball teams who took part in the Red Kite netball tournament at Harrogate Grammar School. The came 2nd and 3rd overall.

Newsletter 13 March 2025

Well done to Year 4 who raised £180 through their enterprise project. Some of the profits will be used to buy Easter eggs for the Food Bank. We are so proud that our children are thinking of others.

Newsletter 6 March 2025

There has been so much happening in school this week, we've had a visit from the Army, children have taken part in recycling workshops, parents had an online safety talk, Singing Squad attended Musical Magic at the Royal Hall, and we had World Book Day.

Newsletter 7 February 2025

This week it is Children’s Mental Health Week and Miss Whiteley led an assembly on Monday about this year’s theme ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’ which encourages children and young people to embrace self-awareness and build their resilience to cope with life’s ups and downs. A huge thank you to Miss Whiteley for leading her first assembly and for making it so interesting for the children.

Newsletter 30 January 2025

Our Year 5 boys had a fantastic result at the football tournament on Tuesday. They came first, winning or drawing all their games.

Why do schools close when it snows?

CEO of Red Kite Learning Trust, Richard Sheriff talks about the “tricky balancing act” of deciding whether to close schools during ‘snow days’ and the toll of abuse teachers face on social media.

Newsletter 24 October 2024

Today is World Polio Day. Some of our children visited Valley Gardens and helped plant crocuses to promote awareness of the campaign to eradicate polio.

Newsletter 3 October 2024

Tomorrow is Walk to School Day. Please try and walk, cycle or scooter.

Newsletter 12 September 2024

This week we welcomed all our EYFS into school together.

Rewilding Our Schools

As part of Red Kite Learning Trust’s Rewilding Project, children from the eco-committee at Rossett Acre Primary School in Harrogate got out mapping the habitats in their school grounds last month

Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics

The first Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics took place this week with year 5 and 6 pupils from all our Trust schools competing in a number of sporting events.

An Open Letter from our CEO and Chair of Trustees

This week, our Chair Trustees, Chris Tulley, and our CEO, Richard Sheriff, sent an open letter to local MPs and other senior politicians and executives in
the Department for Education about school funding.

Youth Board Update - March 2024

Our Red Kite Learning Trust Youth Board met again earlier this month. Read all about their meeting and initiatives our young people are working on.

Newsletter 22 February 2024

Some of our children attended the Young Voices concert at Sheffield on 9 February. They sang beautifully and were a real credit to school.

Youth Board Update - January 2024

This term, our Youth Board met up to discuss rewilding initiatives, Trust-wide sustainability, improving attendance and ideas for future meeting agendas.

Healthy School Award

We are delighted to announce that we were recently awarded the Silver Healthy Schools award. Well done to Miss MacGillivray who worked hard on this to obtain our award.

Youth Board Update - December 2023

Keen to learn from our young people, to give them a voice and an opportunity to help shape the future of our Trust, last year we set up our Red Kite Youth Board. Read our latest update.

Newsletter 8 December 2023

The Christmas tree is up, Christmas productions are in full swing with their rehearsals and some naughty elves have been up to various activities around school.

Newsletter 16 November 2023

Thank you to everyone who visited our jumble sale last Saturday. We raised over £860, plus £125 from the Bag2School collection for the leftover items.

Newsletter 9 November 2023

I wanted to say a huge thank you to the parents and children (PTA) who held a Cake Bake on the last day of term before the holidays. It was so popular that they ran out of cakes!
Thank you to everyone who provided cakes for the sale and to those of you who bought cakes too.

The sale raised £300.07! A fantastic amount.

School Mental Health Award

We are delighted to share that we have been awarded the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools ‘School Mental Health Award’ – Silver Status.
Silver status means that we have contributed to mental health in the local area.

Newsletter 19 October 2023

Children had a lovely visit to St Mark's Church to celebrate Harvest Festival. Thank you for all the donations which have been donated to Harrogate Foodbank.

Trust Recruitment Open Day

Red Kite Learning Trust are holding a Recruitment Open Day where you can find out more about current teaching and operational career opportunities available across our Trust.

Newsletter 5 October 2023

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
‘The more you read the more things you will know. The more you learn the more places you’ll go” Dr Seuss.

Newsletter 28th September 2023

The children had a fabulous time at East Barnby this year. Despite the weather being absolutely atrocious for the first few days, the children really got stuck in to the activities and not a single child complained about the heavy (continuous) rain and up to 40mph winds!

Newsletter 21 September 2023

This week our Year 6 children, along with Mrs Ingle; Mrs Mansfield; Miss Matthews; Mrs Lang and Mr Marshall, have been on their residential at East Barnby.

Newsletter 14 September 2023

This week our EYFS children have experienced their first week in school and it is fabulous to see them playing and learning. I am always amazed at how quickly young children settle into school and love how they delight in telling you about their learning.

Newsletter 4 September 2023

I hope you all had a wonderful summer holiday. The children have been telling me about some exciting visits, holidays and trips. It has been good to be back in school and hear, and feel it, come alive again, with the sound of children.

2022-23 Annual Report

In this year’s report we have chosen to celebrate the successes of our schools, communities, colleagues, and young people by telling some of the stories from across our Trust.

Newsletter 6 July 2023

On Monday this week, Alison Wheat from Harrogate Library led an assembly on the Summer Reading Challenge. She challenged the children to read six books over the summer. A leaflet has been sent out to classes to give you more information

Newsletter 30 June 2023

A huge thank you to everyone who came to the Summer Fair on Saturday, it was a great turnout and the weather was glorious for us. The ice-cream van line remained long, all day, and the storytime marquee was a great success too.

Newsletter 22 June 2023

On Monday, Charlotte (Year 6 pupil who is part of the Trust Youth Board) visited Harrogate Grammar and Western School to look at 1:1 iPad scheme.The Youth Board viewed lessons at Western Primary to see them in action and then had lunch and a discussion with Richard Sheriff.

OH, WHAT A ‘ROSSETT ACRE’ SHOW!

Well done to everyone who entered an exhibit in this year’s show. There were over 300 entries all the way from Early Years to Year 6; some from our pre-school children and some from parents and teachers.

Newsletter 15 June 2023

There has been a definite buzz around school this week with exciting things happening. The Annual Show was another success, and I was very tempted to try all the yummy looking cakes, breads and jams as I was taking a look at the entries.

Annual Show 2023

The deadline for entries is 9am on Thursday 8th June. The show takes place on Tuesday 13th June. Entries need to be dropped off on the day by 8.45am at the Sports Hall.

Newsletter 25 May 2023

On Thursday, last week, we held a New Starters Information meeting for parents/carers’ of children who will join us in September. The event was well attended and it was great sharing information about our school and enabling those present to have a look at our Early Years classrooms and meet the teachers.

Newsletter 11 May 2023

This week, Year 6 have been sitting their KS2 SATs. They have one Maths paper left to complete tomorrow and then they will have finished them. Hurrah! The Y6 children have been fabulous all week, they have been an absolute pleasure in our SATs breakfast club and they have approached their SATs so maturely. I am so proud of them all. Well done.

Newsletter 4 May 2023

This week has been a little strange, the bank holiday and industrial action has caused the days to meld into one and nobody is quite sure what day it is! However, the children have been working hard and lots has been going on.

Newsletter 27 April 2023

All the latest from Rossett Acre Primary.
On Monday, Mr Alastair Field, the Head of primary at Roundhay School, Leeds, visited us for the morning to look at the quality of our writing in school and speak to children and staff. Mr Field was very complimentary about our children’s writing and really enjoyed observing the teachers and children working in class.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEWLY TRAINED 'PLAY LEADERS'

At the beginning of the Spring Term, all Year 5 pupils were offered the opportunity to become 'Play Leaders'. The aim of the Playground Leaders scheme is to introduce and develop leadership skills in Year 5 children by training them up and getting them to organise activities for other children in the playground.

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Newsletter 30 March 2023

On Friday, last week, our school hosted a Red Kite Learning Trust Recruitment Open Day. This was organised by our Trust HR team and it was great to share information about our school and the opportunities available to us by being part of a Trust.

Joke-a-Thon

Our Joke-a-Thon was a great success, and we had a very smiley week listening to and voting for a whole variety of jokes.

Newsletter 23 March 2023

Latest news from Rossett Acre. On Friday last week, we had a lovely Red Nose Day. We raised £284.10. Thank you so much to everyone who donated. Look out for the winning jokes in this newsletter – further down.

Newsletter 16 March 2023

Thank you to all our parents/carers’ who attended our Open Classroom event on Tuesday. I know the children were thrilled to see you and share their work.

Newsletter 9 March 2023

On Friday 3rd March, Mrs Wood's class led a spectacular circus themed assembly to their parents as well as the Year 2, Year 1 and Reception classes.

Red Nose Day

Our PVA (Pupil Voice Ambassadors) have chosen Comic Relief to be our main charity event this year, outside of money raising activities for school-based projects.

World Book Week at RAP

Next week we are celebrating World Book Week in school and we have been fortunate enough to purchase about 50 new Little People Big Dreams Books using the money from September's Sponsored Read.

Newsletter 9 February 2023

I can’t quite believe that we have reached the end of another half term! It has been a busy week in school with lots of exciting things taking place.

RAP Newsletter 2 February 2023

At Rossett Acre Primary this week I have seen Y3 (PA/EH) rehearsing their assembly which they are performing next week. I can’t wait for parents/carers to come back into school and watch their children perform.

Newsletter 26 January 2023

This week, Miss Woodcock led our whole school Monday assembly. She showed the children the importance of being kind and that once words are out in the open, you can’t take them back. This was demonstrated with a tube of toothpaste, where one child squeezed all the toothpaste out of the tube and another child tried to put it back, to no avail.

Newsletter 19 January 2023

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