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  • Newsletter 16.05.2025

    Published 20/05/25

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    We have all felt incredibly proud of the approach that our Y6s have taken this week during their KS2 SATs tests. They have worked so diligently, with a real sense of calmness and should be very proud of themselves. They have impressed everybody so I'm sure they are looking forward to a well earned rest over the weekend! The SATs results are published in July so as soon as these come through, we will be sharing them with the Y6s and their parents. 

    The Y5s have had a lovely week with a couple of visits to Chatsworth with Mrs Dey while the Y6s have been busy with their SATs. They have done some sketching down by the river, had a tour of the House and learnt lots in the kitchen garden. 

    Miss Davison

    After working as a teacher at Pilsley for nine years, Miss Davison has recently resigned from her post and will be leaving us at the end of July. Miss Davison has worked in both the infants and the juniors during her time here and the children have always enjoyed her fun and enthusiastic approach to lessons! Miss Davison has decided to take a step away from teaching whilst she pursues other interests. We will all miss her but wish her all the very best for the future. 

    I'm delighted to say that Mrs Anderson and Mrs Dey will be taking on extra hours in September to cover Miss Davison's teaching commitment. Mrs Anderson and Mrs Dey will both be working four days per week from September. Once staff timetables are finalised for the next academic year, we will send this information out to parents and carers. 

    Wishing you a lovely weekend,

    Mrs E Bond

    Headteacher 

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  • Newsletter 09.05.2025

    Published 20/05/25

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    Thank you so much for your support with sponsorships for our running event for VE Day 80. The children did brilliantly and we were so proud of them. If you have any sponsorship money at home for our chosen charity, Blind Veterans UK, please send this into the school office by 21st May. Mrs Townsend taught the children how to sign 'We'll Meet Again' by Dame Vera Lynn and you can see this recording here: Class Pages | Pilsley C of E Primary School

    This afternoon, Class 4 have had their first Teams call with Wilkie Cumberbatch school in Barbados! It was great to ask the children lots of questions about what life is like at home and at school in Barbados and we've learnt lots already. We hope to set up another call later in the summer term. 

    Next week is SATs week for our Y6 children. SATs tests will be running every morning from Monday-Thursday. We would really appreciate it if you could make sure that your child/children arrive at school on time so we can make a timely start. Everyone is immensely proud of all of our Y6s who have worked tremendously hard in preparing for these tests. The Y6s have approached their practise tests with calmness and a real determination to do well- good luck everybody!

    A reminder that the Y5s need to be dropped off at Chatsworth House on Monday morning at 9am please where Mrs Dey will be waiting for them. 

    The Y6s have their Y6 celebration sporting event at Whitworth Park on Friday. 

    Wishing you a lovely sunny weekend,

    Mrs E Bond

    Headteacher

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  • Newsletter 02.05.2025

    Published 07/05/25

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  • Newsletter 25.04.2025

    Published 07/05/25

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  • Newsletter 04.04.2025

    Published 07/05/25

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  • Newsletter 28.03.2025

    Published 28/03/25

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    Our ECO Team spent some time on Wednesday morning collecting litter as part of the Chatsworth estate annual litter pick. It was a beautiful day for a walk and the children collected several glass bottles, countless dog poo bags (!) and even one or two items of clothing which had been left down by the river! Lord Burlington was very appreciative of all the children's help with the litter pick and they were all rewarded with a notepad/pencil. Well done ECO Team! 

    Next Friday, we are having our Easter service at St.Peter's church in Edensor which starts at 2pm. The service is anticipated to last for around 40mins so please arrange to collect your child from church at 2.45pm if you are not attending the service. Please note, the school bus will not be running on the homeward journey. 

    The children finish school for the Easter holidays on Friday 4th April and return to school on Tuesday 22nd April. 

    Wishing you a lovely weekend,

    Mrs E Bond
    Headteacher 

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  • Newsletter 21.03.2015

    Published 21/03/25

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    Thank you for your support with Comic Relief today, the school council will report back next week with a total sum of money raised for the charity. 

    Our ECO Team are joining in with the Chatsworth annual litter pick on the estate next week so our ECO reps will let you know how they get on!

    Mrs Dey has been busy with Class 3 writing some super letters to the children at British school Quito which is in Ecuador. Mrs Dey's husband has links with the school as part of his role as Head of Schools for OrbitalEd who run a collection of internationally acclaimed schools. This is a wonderful link for us to have, and Mr Dey delivered our children's letters to the school in Quito last week. You can see some of the responses to these letters on the attached Instagram posts. I'm currently in the process of forming a link with a school in Barbados who will link up with Class 4 after Easter, so this is promising to be a really interesting opportunity for our children to learn about different cultures, climates and life in Barbados. I've got our next year's residential trip in mind already.... (if only!)🌞😎

    You will have no doubt noticed that the playground gate is in desperate need of repair. We have been gathering quotes and have instructed a local joiner to make a new gate for us which is due to be fitted over the Easter break. In due course, the fencing either side of the gateway will be replaced too.  

    Wishing you a lovely weekend,

    Mrs E Bond
    Headteacher 

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  • Safer Neighbourhood Team Visit​​​​​​​

    Published 19/03/25

    The Safer Neighbourhood Team have visited us this afternoon to speak to the infant children about the role of the Safer Neighbourhood Team within the community. 

    During the visit, the children were given the opportunity to ask questions to PCSO Boswell and they had a look around the police car and tested the lights! 🚓

    The children throughly enjoyed the talk and especially liked trying on old police hats! 👮

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  • Comic Relief - Friday 21st March 2025

    Published 17/03/25

    The School Council team have arranged a non-uniform day this Friday in support of Comic Relief. The children are welcome to come to school either wearing something red or in their usual clothes.

    A suggested donation of £1 per child can be made via ParentPay which will then be paid directly to Comic Relief.

    After school on Friday, members of our school council would like to run a bake sale on the playground. We would be really grateful if parents/carers could donate any baked items for the children to sell to raise money. Please note, any home baked goods would need to come into school with an ingredients list attached and please note, all items would need to be nut free. 

    If any donations for the bake sale could be brought into school on either Thursday after school or Friday morning, that would be brilliant. All proceeds from the bake sale and the non-uniform day will be sent to Comic Relief. 

    With thanks for your support and best wishes,

    Mrs Thompson and the School Council Team

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  • Newsletter 14.03.2025

    Published 14/03/25

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    This week, Class 4 were very pleased to welcome John Everitt, Chris Froggatt and Jemima Letts from Chatsworth Forestry team into school. John and Jemima gave a very interesting talk about the role of the forestry team as well as the commercial aspects of the industry. Chris talked to the children about different climbing techniques and even demonstrated his climbing skills for us in the playground! The children were challenged to estimate what the weight of the timber might be on the back of the trailer and Louis excelled himself with some really accurate answers throughout the afternoon! Huge thanks to John, Chris and Jemima for making time to visit us in school. 

    INSET days 

    Just a reminder that we still have three INSET days left for the remainder of this academic year. The school will be closed to the children on the following dates:

    Friday 23rd May 2025

    Friday 27th June 2025

    Thursday 24th July 2025

    At present, we have set three of the five INSET days for the academic year 2025/26. Two further INSET day dates will follow in due course. Confirmed INSET days are:

    Thursday 4th September 2025

    Friday 5th September 2025 

    Monday 3rd November 2025

    Please note, the children will start school on Monday 8th September 2025 following the summer break. 

    Garden volunteers

    Mrs Allinson has done a wonderful job of maintaining our school garden over the last couple of years but has recently reduced her hours, so we are looking to recruit some willing volunteers to help with the weeding and maintenance of the garden. If you or somebody you know, might be interested in lending a hand either on an ad-hoc or more regular basis, please contact the school office. Many thanks!

    School clock

    You may have noticed that the school clock hasn't been working for the last few days. An engineer is due to visit to fix the problem but unfortunately, isn't able to attend site until 31st March.  

    Wishing you a lovely weekend,

    Mrs E Bond

    Headteacher 

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  • Newsletter 07.03.2025

    Published 07/03/25

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    Thank you for all your efforts with World Book Day this week! The children looked amazing, and it was great to share their favourite books and stories with them. Photographs from yesterday should be appearing on the class pages of the school website soon!

    Class 4 visitors

    Class 4 are really enjoying their 'Sow, Grow, Farm' topic and over recent weeks, we have been lucky enough to welcome several local experts from the estate to come in and talk to the children about various aspects of farming. Ted's dad joined us to talk about sheep farming, Violet's dad came in to talk to us about farming in Kenya and this week, Charlotte and Emily's dad arrived on his tractor to talk to the children about arable farming! The tractor was a huge hit across all the classes!! Holly and James' dad is also coming in to see us next week to talk to the children about forestry which we're all looking forward to. 

    Science week!

    Tom's mum has very kindly offered to come in and work with each class, in her capacity as a secondary science teacher, to run some activities as part of science week! The infants have had their session today and have been busy making seed bombs this afternoon as part of their growing topic this term! You can keep up to date with what's been happening via the class pages on the school website. 

    We're also delighted to be welcoming a teacher from Oundle School on Thursday 24th April who is coming in to run a STEM workshop for Y4, Y5 and Y6. This arrangement is in partnership with St.Anselms school in Bakewell and we are very grateful to have this opportunity once again this year. We have also invited Y5 and Y6 pupils from Baslow school to join us for the workshop too. 

    Chatsworth estate annual litter pick

    We have been asked to join in again with the annual litter pick on the estate which is taking place on Wednesday 26th March. Representatives from our ECO Team will be sent some further information and permission slips next week. 

    Easter service

    On our last day of term, Friday 4th April, we will be having our annual Easter service down at St.Peter's church in Edensor at 2pm. You are most welcome to join us for this. The service will last approximately 45mins so please make arrangements to collect your child from church at 2.45pm if you aren't able to come.  Class 4 will be selling items from their Enterprise project after the service so you can pick up an Easter treat or two!

    Wishing you a lovely weekend,

    Mrs E Bond
    Headteacher 

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  • Newsletter 01.03.2024

    Published 01/03/25

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    We've been delighted to welcome two new families into our school this week. Florence has joined us in Y3 and has settled in extremely well. Romeo and Harvey have joined us in Y5 and Y2 respectively and it has been a real pleasure to see how well they have settled into life at Pilsley in such a short time. I'm sure you will join us in welcoming both families into our school community and it's great to see the children getting on so well and making new friends.

    Please find a letter attached to this email regarding the NSPCC's Speak out, stay safe programme which we will be delivering in school over the next couple of weeks to children in Y1-Y6. 

    For those families who went to Young Voices last week, you can access the YV2024 concert video by visiting 

    yv24film.co.uk

    A reminder that we are celebrating World Book day next Friday (letter attached with more details). Each child need to bring in a large potato next Friday please!  

    On Friday 15th March, it is Comic Relief so we will be having a non-uniform day. More details to follow!

    Wishing you a lovely weekend,

    Mrs E Bond
    Headteacher 

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