The Tannery Drift teams demonstrated exceptional teamwork, determination, and resilience, and their commitment paid off, as they went on to win all of their group stage matches and secure places in the finals.

Following some nail-biting final matches, we're delighted to say that both Tannery Drift teams were crowned the winners of the day, and received gold medals.  Well done to everyone who took part!

Please click on the links below to purchase your tickets:

> Early Years (Nursery and Reception) - 4.30-5.30pm https://bit.ly/FTDSdisco5

> Years 1-4 - 6.00-7.30pm https://bit.ly/FTDSdisco6

**Please note: You will need to adjust the number of tickets required, as the form will default to 1xEY disco and 1xYr 1-4 disco). If you make a mistake, please email us (friendsoftannerydriftschool@gmail.com) to request a refund **

Ticket sales will strictly close at 6pm on Thursday 12th March, with no sales on the day or on the door, so don’t miss out! Tickets are non-transferable for medical and safeguarding reasons.

Parent helpers: Thank you to everyone who has already offered to help at the event - details will follow nearer the time. But we do still need a few more helpers, particularly for Early Years, to enable the discos to happen! Early Years children will need to be accompanied by an adult at their disco, so please let us know if you can help whilst you are there. With plenty of helpers there will be flexibility to still provide support for your child at the event as needed.

The Years 1-4 disco is a drop off event, so please consider signing up to help if you would like to attend.

Please email us at friendsoftannerydriftschool@gmail.com with your availability. Thank you!

Everyone has enjoyed a wonderful day of storybook fun, complete with ‘bedtime’ hot chocolate.  In the afternoon, teachers swapped classes to share books with pupils in other year groups and it was lovely to see how engaged the children were in the stories.

As always, World Book Day has been a fantastic event which has inspired the children’s imaginations, and filled their minds with stories, characters and new worlds to explore.

Download your digital guide and tally chart here.

The workshops combined movement, role-play and storytelling; supporting learning in English and physical development (as well as linking to the topic on toys for Year 1!)
The children had a wonderful time engaging with these sessions, and it was great to see our youngest pupils take part with so much concentration and enthusiasm.

We are very grateful to Mrs Simons, a former Tannery Drift teacher, who continues to bring her energy and enthusiasm to our school community.

If you want to know what is coming up between now and the end of term, do check our special festive page in the Noticeboard each week!

Entry into the raffle will close NEXT Thursday 27th. You will not be able to enter the draw after this day.  Please make sure you fill in your details on all the ticket stubs you wish to purchase and return those with the correct cash in an envelope to the school office.

If you would like any additional booklets then you can get these from the office on a first come, first served basis.

Cake donations

We are asking Year 1 and 2 parents for cake/biscuit donations to be brought into the school office from Wednesday 26th, with homemade items in the morning of Friday 29th.

***Please ensure that the donations are nut free, which includes marzipan and almond***

Volunteers

If you are able to help, even if just for 30mins at set up or to run a games stall, ladle mulled wine into cups etc, then your help is really appreciated! Please let us know: friendsoftannerydriftschool@gmail.com

Tokens

We will be running a token system alongside card payments. Tokens can be used at all the games stalls as well as refreshments and to purchase stock. Tokens are valued at 50p each with a minimum of 10 tokens for £5.

To minimise queues on the day, there will be an opportunity to buy your tokens from outside the school office at drop off on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th (as well as at the Fair itself).

Upcoming Sessions:

Wednesday 26^th November 8.50-10am

Please join our Family Support Worker alongside Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners for a session focusing on children’s self-esteem, wellbeing and resilience.

Wednesday 10th December 8.50-10am

This will be a social Christmas session run by @wearecraftedconnections, and for £5 (cash on the day), offers a chance to craft Christmas baubles, whilst connecting, chatting and enjoying a mince pie!  

Each child had their own trampette, and followed bounce choreography led by Laura, our incredibly energetic workshop leader. 

Each session ended with a bounce disco, complete with disco lights!

Parents of children in Nursery to Year 4 are also invited to our Art Gallery, which will be held in the hall on the same afternoon. The gallery will showcase some of the fantastic work that children have created during Arts Week.

We look forward to sharing some of this with you in an Arts Week special Noticeboard next Friday too!

We regret that we cannot extend the hours of the session to accommodate Afterschool Club attendees on this occasion.  

Children across all year groups enjoyed all sorts of poetry writing and reading activities in their classrooms, including poetry challenges. 

As part of the day, Miss Baker, our English lead, arranged for us to join in with Simon Mole’s Gigantic Poetry Workshops! 

This was a huge success and children really enjoyed getting involved in this virtual event.

The buddies scheme involves all children in Reception being paired with a Year 4 buddy – someone to talk to, play with, and to be a familiar face around the school for the younger children as they settle into Tannery Drift.

There was much excitement in both year groups on their first meeting, and the children are looking forward to spending more time together this term.

Each Year group will hold 2 meetings; one at 6–6.30pm and one at 6.30-7pm, and you are welcome to attend either time (please turn up, there is no need to book).  Meetings will be held in the relevant Year Group areas and entrance will be via external classroom doors. Unfortunately, on this occasion, children cannot be accommodated during the meetings.               

We are looking forward to seeing lots of you at the meetings. We encourage in-person attendance if possible as we know how crucial home-school partnerships are to educational success.

Presentations will be shared on the class pages of the website the following week.

I hope you and your families have an enjoyable summer.  I will see some of you at Tannery Drift’s first Summer Camp in a few weeks and look forward to welcoming all of the children back on Thursday 4th September.

A big thank you has to go to our wonderful “Mascots” who gamely wore the house costumes in extremely warm weather!

It was a wonderful day with everyone really giving it their all, despite the intense heat! For some of our youngest Tannery Drift pupils this was the first event of this kind they have taken part in, and the first medals they have been awarded.

Well done to everyone who took part, and we encourage looking out for next year’s event and signing-up if you are able to.

The children arrived for the day well-prepared and eager to compete, and were welcomed warmly with congratulations on the amazing achievement of progressing to this stage of the tournament.

The schools were split into 2 pools, with the children then playing against each of the other schools in their pool.

Our team played some fantastic tennis, only losing in their pool to one other team, from Haberdashers Independent School.

The Tannery Drift team was then through to the semi-finals, playing the winning school from the other pool, who we’re delighted to say they beat, which put them through to the Grand Final, playing Haberdashers Independent School for the second time! 

After some nail-biting matches, Tannery Drift won silver, finishing second place in the tournament out of over 400 Primary Schools!  

Throughout the day, the children demonstrated fantastic teamwork and support for one another and should be so proud of this fantastic achievement.  Mrs Greetham and the school tennis coach, Matt Fellingham, could not be prouder of the team’s performance. Well done Charlotte, Georgina, Girvan and Joel!

If anyone is interested in named Committee roles for our AGM, or has any queries, then please email us at friendsoftannerydriftschool@gmail.com. As mentioned, we are always grateful to our volunteers who generously give their time to help at events, but we also need people to join the committee, attend our meetings and plan the events - otherwise there won’t be any events to help out at! We look forward to seeing you there. If you would prefer to join the meeting virtually, then please email us for the link.

We are happy to announce that one of our teams was the overall winner of the tournament, and they now move on to playing in the County final against schools from all over Hertfordshire.
Wishing our team the best of luck in the next round!

Thousands of wooden blocks were used to build a massive structure, filling the School Hall, with each class learning to build and add their own special components including a castle, a train, a very tall giraffe and even a massive cobra!

The children displayed excellent listening skills and dexterity, ensuring they followed the directions and carefully created their part of the build. 

We all know the health benefits of walking so please help us this week to reduce congestion by supporting children in being more active and help reduce lower carbon emissions during this Walk to School Week.

We would like to encourage all our pupils to try and walk, cycle or scoot to school during this week. If it’s not possible to walk all the way, then it would be great if you could park 10 minutes away from school and walk or scoot the last part of your journey.

Following on from Walk to School Week, we will be supporting Clean Air Day on Thursday 19th June 2025, more information to follow closer to the date.

On behalf of the staff team, and I’m sure the whole school community, I would like to thank the Governors and the Friends of Tannery Drift for their dedication and commitment which makes such a difference to our community.

I very much hope that you will have the opportunity to enjoy some of the sunny weather we are expecting over the next few days and that you are able to spend time with family over the Easter break. If you are looking for ideas of local activities to keep the children busy, do check the Listing and the Royston Museum website.

We look forward to seeing you all when the Summer term begins on Tuesday 22^nd April.

From Monday 17^th March a limited number Red Noses will be available to buy from the School Office for a cash donation of £2.50 to Comic Relief (exact change if possible, please!). Once we have sold out we won't have any more stock, but noses are being sold online by the charity in the Comic Relief Shop.