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.

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!

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. 

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 22^nd April.