After keeping the covid -19 virus out of school for a year it was with extreme reluctance that I had to take the decision to close school yesterday, a decision that was only taken after a long morning of consultation with the Department for Education, Public Health England and North Yorkshire County Council.

After keeping the covid -19 virus out of school for a year it was with extreme reluctance that I had to take the decision to close school yesterday, a decision that was only taken after a long morning of consultation with the Department for Education, Public Health England and North Yorkshire County Council.

We have been advised by Public Health England that there has been a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the school.

Dear Parents/Carers We now have our online Learning Platform active and ready to use. You will find all the information on our website homepage. Along the taskbar, where you can see your child’s class, there is a tab ‘Online Learning.’ Once this has been located you will find within this tab each class from Nursery…

Dear Parents/Carers Thank you once again to all parents and carers for all your support in delivering remote teaching and learning. Last week over 90% of our children had engaged in teaching and learning in some form – online, in school or through learning packs. We would like this to be 100% of our children,…

Dear Parent/Carer Thank you to all those parents and carers who have engaged with our remote teaching and learning this week, either through our online platform or through the learning packs. By the end of yesterday 50% of children had logged on to Dojo to return work to teachers, 81 children were in school, 30…

Dear Parent/Carer It was with considerable regret that we had to inform you last night of another school closure starting today, particularly as we had just had a very positive training day with all staff looking forward to the new term. As I’m sure you will appreciate today has been an extremely busy day as…

A very special East Ayton Primary School Christmas Nativity. With a little help from Santa and his naughty Elves, the staff and children of East Ayton Primary School have a little surprise for you all.

Dear Parents/Carers, We are now 3 days into the return to school and I just wanted to update you on how things are going. I think it’s fair to say so far so good. The new procedures around social distancing that we’ve put in place are working well, routines of regular handwashing are being followed,…

Dear Parents/Carers, It has now been confirmed that children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 will be returning to school next Monday, 1st June, and in my previous letter I outlined the measures we would be taking to keep the children and staff as safe as possible. I would just like to update…