Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Whole school walk

  Fri 26 Sep 2025

  Today we returned to Broomford for our whole school walk, everyone enjoyed a great day walking in some lovely late summer sunshine exploring the fauna and flora of the estate. It was a little wet and muddy in places but this all added to the fun of the day. A big thank you goes to Jim and Jayne Egan for kindly allowing the school to walk around their estate and for funding the cost of the coaches. Thank you also to all the staff and parents who accompanied the children and made the day possible.

   

• Harvest festival

  Wed 24 Sep 2025

  On Wednesday the whole school celebrated Harvest with a very enjoyable visit to the Methodist Church where classes presented a variety of songs, poems and readings.  Thank you to Revd Chris and the Methodist Church for a very warm welcome and to parents and carers for donations of food that will go to a local charity.  

   

   

• NSPCC Number Day

  Fri 07 Feb 2025

  The children all looked amazing today, dressed for Number Day. It was great to see so many homemade tops and costumes, from a number princess to walking calculators, times table superheroes, and T-shirts showing clocks and the years children were born. Sportswear was popular today too, showing ages and sports personalities’ numbers. Thanks to one T-shirt, we now know how many days, minutes, hours and seconds the children who are six years old have been alive! In class, children enjoyed a wide range of activities showing how interesting and fun numbers are which hopefully they will share with you this evening. Thank you to all parents and carers who supported your children in dressing up for the day.

  

• Wear your scarf to school day

  Thu 06 Feb 2025

  We talked about how all of our scarves were different and why we had chosen to wear them.
  We discussed the SCARF values of Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship.
  Some of us shared our scarf with a friend.

  

• Sports Champions Programme

  Sat 07 Dec 2024

  The school enjoyed a very exciting morning on Tuesday when Gymnast Courtney Tulloch visited school as part of the Sports for Champions programme. The day started with a whole school assembly and then workshops for each class including some very impressive demonstrations of Courtney’s Gymnastic skills. Thank you to everyone who supported the programme through collecting sponsorship.

  

• Antibullying week and Children in Need

  Fri 15 Nov 2024

  This week has been really busy with classes focusing on anti-bullying week and Children in Need. As part of recognising that we are all unique, children and staff wore odd socks on Tuesday. Friday involved more dressing up with school supporting Children in Need. Thank you to everyone that helped cover Pudsey in coins. (Photos year 4 and 5)

  

• Hatherleigh Carnival 2024

  Sat 09 Nov 2024

  This year for our carnival decorated fence entry, we decided to incorporate our flock of sheep (part of the David Jones art project – see previous page of this newsletter) into our design. Each child from Reception to Year 6 used crepe paper to create a flower or a tuft of grass. ‘Grassing’ crepe paper in this way is a traditional technique that Hatherleigh Carnival is renowned for.  We hope you all enjoy looking at our display.

  

• David Jones Art Project

  Thu 07 Nov 2024

  Hatherleigh school has been generously donated money from the sale of some of David Jones' art work by his daughter Sue. Art and creativity is incredibly important to us at Hatherleigh school and as well as our weekly Creative Thursday lessons we have undertaken several whole school art projects. Being a local artist we wanted to celebrate his artwork with a project that would last and could be seen by the whole community.

  The wooden sheep were made by Ben Whiting and every child contributed to their class sheep. Chestnuts created their colourful design with fingerprints and handprints. Hawthorns were inspired by Van Gogh for their eye-catching sunflower design. Willows have been studying different leaves as part of their art unit this term, and as our classes are named after different trees, carefully drawn and painted leaves were the ideal theme for their class sheep. Poplars took the theme of numbers for their sheep with each child choosing their favourite number. Similarly one of Oaks' sheep is covered in the initial letter of the children's names and their 2^nd sheep was inspired by David Jones'  black and white sketches from around the local area. The inspiration for Beeches striking sheep was Chuck Close. Maples chose to reproduce David Jones colourful style for their intricate sheep. Chloe, one of our keen artists in Y6  wanted to create her own design and produced her own impressive black and white Dartmoor views.  Miss Chauhan saved the last 2 sheep from a life in the art cupboard and painted them over the half term holiday. 

  Steve Attfield then spent 2 days over the holiday attaching them to the fence. Choosing which side to face outwards was tricky as the children have done an incredible job and we're really pleased with their finished result. 

  We would like to express our thanks to Sue Jones and her family for their very kind and generous donation which enabled the children to engage in this amazing art project and create our own school flock which we hope will be enjoyed by the whole community. 

   

  

• Farmwise visit.

  Wed 06 Nov 2024

  On Wednesday, year 3 and 4 had a visit from Bev who works with the Farmwise outreach team. The children thoroughly enjoyed finding out about different crops grown in Devon, sorting food items into groups of which crops they're made from, matching up different animals to their poo, making flour and they even turned cream into butter. Milking Daisy the cow was quite a challenge but we did have some expert milkers in both classes. 

  

• Town Crier competition

  Sun 27 Oct 2024

  Well done to the children who took part in the Town Crier competition. It was great to hear how loud and clear you could be having written your own speech.