Blog Author: Mr Mackley

As we are in Holy Week, albeit a strange one, we have some thoughts for children and or families to look at together.

Have a look at this one, the instructions are straightforward.

Hello again everybody, I cannot believe it has been around two weeks since my last post and so much has happened in that time!

Thank you to everybody who is following the advice and staying home wherever possible; we are open each for the small number of children who are categorised by the…

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and managing to adjust to the very significant changes which have been made to how we are having to live our lives at the moment; it is a huge challenge for everyone in our community.

As a school we want to try and do what we can to help, we are open…

I am sitting here in a very quiet school building, only the sound of traffic outside keeping me company. Even that is not as noisy as it normally is just before 5 pm on a Friday afternoon.

This has been perhaps the most interesting and indeed challenging weeks I think I and my colleagues here…

At our launch of the School Vision with parents we had a great discussion about what the vision means to the children (we shared a video some of them had made to let us know their thoughts) and in groups we talked about the three parts to our strapline, "Be blessed by God, be happy and aspire to…

A very Happy New Year to everyone!

I think that I have managed to sort out how to write blogs so hopefully you should be seeing a few more in the future.

This post is to let you know a bit about our Vision Statement that we have worked on as a staff and with the children.  On our home page…

I have been Headteacher of this lovely school for almost two terms now and have been made to feel incredibly welcome.  St Matthew's is a great place to be and I am really excited to have the privilege of leading this school on it's journey to becoming recognised not only as a good school by Ofsted…