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  • AGM and General Meeting - Monday 23rd June @7.30pm, Enrichment Room

    Published 16/06/25

    With many faces leaving FTDS at the end of this term and roles becoming vacant, we are holding our Annual General Meeting in advance of our general meeting on Monday 23rd June. We will be voting in new committee members, reviewing the previous year, and planning upcoming events.


    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.

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  • Supertato!

    Published 13/06/25

    Our Reception classes have been learning about the story of Supertato this week. They have been discussing the characters, the narrative and finding words to describe the kind and evil main characters. As you can see the children have also been making their very own Super-potatoes, which look amazing!

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  • Royston and Villages Tennis Tournament 2025

    Published 12/06/25

    On Wednesday 11th June, we were delighted to enter four teams of Year 3 & 4 pupils into the Royston and Villages Tennis Tournament, held on Royston Heath. The children all played fantastically, showed great support for one another and should be really proud of themselves.

    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!

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  • Empathy festival

    Published 03/06/25

    This year's Empathy Festival runs from 2nd June-12th June. 

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  • Kapla Workshops

    Published 09/05/25

    As part of Science Week, on Tuesday and Wednesday we hosted KAPLA workshops for children in all year groups.

    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. 

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  • Walk to School Week 19th - 23rd May

    Published 28/04/25

    We are happy to be taking part in Walk to School Week this May.

    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.

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  • End of term

    Published 04/04/25

    As we come to the end of a busy Spring term I would like to thank all of you for your support; we have received so many positive messages from families this term and it has been lovely to be able to share these with the staff team. We are yet to receive our draft Ofsted report, following our visit in March, but we will share it with you as soon as we are able to.

    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 22nd April.

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  • Artsmark Gold Award

    Published 28/03/25
    We are delighted to announce we have been given a Gold Artsmark Award by the Arts Council England, in recognition of the school’s commitment to fostering creativity in drama, dance, music and art, throughout the school. The Arts Council comm
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  • Rocksteady Concert

    Published 28/03/25
    On Wednesday, parents and carers were treated to a rock concert featuring our five Rocksteady bands.  The confidence the children showed was amazing, especially considering for many of them this was their first time performing on stage.  We
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  • Drumba

    Published 21/03/25

    On Friday, children in Years 1-4 had the opportunity to have a go at Zumba – a high energy exercise combining drumming, music and movement. The workshops were great fun, and the children brought a lot of energy to the sessions!
    Thank you to Miss Watts for organising the day.

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  • Colour Run Inspired by Holi

    Published 21/03/25

    On Thursday, the children in Reception took part in a Colour Run in the sunshine, inspired by their learning about the Hindu festival of Holi. As you can see, the children and staff had a wonderful time!

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  • Red Nose Day – Friday 21st March

    Published 17/03/25

    Friday 21st March is Red Nose Day for Comic Relief.  Children are welcome to come to school in their red noses, red clothing and PE kits that day.

    From Monday 17th 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.

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