CAW Aspiration Awards 

We enjoyed seeing Mr. Kelsey presenting our first ever Gold, Silver and Bronze CAW Aspiration Awards on Monday. These new certificates have been launched to reward the children who demonstrate excellent behaviour and have great attendance. It was wonderful to see the children so proud of the shiny metallic certificates that recognise how much effort they have put in.

We will be awarding these certificates every half term, so for any children who missed out this time, they will have many more opportunities to earn one in the future. It has been wonderful to hear children saying they want to increase their attendance and improve their behaviour so that they can be proud of earning a certificate. This is exactly the aspirational attitude that we want to help children develop. 

Family Consultations next week

We’re looking forward to the Family Consultation events next Tuesday and Wednesday after school. These are important meetings that give time for families to speak with teachers and find out how your children are progressing academically, and how their social and personal development is going. 

If you haven’t made an appointment yet, please do sign up on Arbor or speak to your child’s teacher at collection time on the playground. 

Family Engagement Events 

We are so proud of the Family Engagement events we hold every half term, and it’s so wonderful to have so many families join us in class for these. The children love sharing their learning with you! You can see the timings for these below...it will be lovely to see you there!

We’ll be promoting the safe use of the internet as part of these events to tie in with Safer Internet Day. The link below has more information:

https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2026 

If you ever have any concerns around internet safety, please speak to us at school and we will be happy to support you. 

Have a great weekend and I’ll look forward to seeing you on the gate on Monday morning, 

Russell Wood 

Headteacher 

City Academy Whitehawk