Dear Parents 

What a Wonderful Year 

It’s been an amazing year! A Fantastic Ofsted in October celebrating our Personal Development, Behaviour and Attitudes and Early Years as Outstanding and now we have fantastic data showing how well children are learning across the school. This is down to the hard work and dedication of all our Bridgewater team, Parents, our Friends, Governors and most importantly the Children. We have the Gold Artsmark Award, The International School Award, the Primary Science Quality Mark, The School Games Platinum Award, Healthy Schools Award, FFT Attendance Awards as well as receiving a Gold Award for being a smart phone free school and the Leading Parent Partnership Award. Staff have worked very hard to achieve these and they all mean a lot to our community and celebrate our exciting curriculum and strong community links. 

Smart Phone Free School GOLD Award 

Please remember that next year NO smart phones will be permitted in school. The children in Year 5 and Year 6 who walk home will require a ‘Call Only’ phone. We continue to encourage adults to turn smart phones off and put them away on site in accordance with our safeguarding policy. No other year group can bring phones into school.  

Goodbyes and Warm Welcomes 

We wish Miss Knight all the best as she sets off on a six-month adventure to South America. She’ll be keeping in touch via a travel blog, which will provide some great geography learning opportunities for the children. We look forward to welcoming her back to Bridgewater in February. 

We’re pleased to welcome Mr Grass to Year 5 Gaudi, Miss Williams to Year 4 Cromer, and Miss Barre to Year 1 Ringgold. It’s great to have them join the team. 

We’ll be sad to say goodbye to Miss Hardwick, who began her teaching career here at Bridgewater. We thank her for her contribution and wish her well in her new role in Surrey. We also wish Mr Gritten all the best as he moves to a new position with Pacesetters as a Sports Coach — we may still see him around from time to time. 

Finally, we’re pleased to welcome Miss Gibbs and Mrs Garrett, who will be joining the team as Teaching Assistants. 

Street Dancing 

Harlow in Year 4 and Betsy in Year 6 competed in the Street Dance International Great British Championships on Sunday 13th July with their team Synergize and came first. Well done girls this is a huge achievement.  

Goodbye Year 6 and Keep in Touch  

Year 6 have had an amazing year, starting with the residential in Osmington Bay. They have worked so hard and improved their skills dramatically with everyone achieving great things.  A highlight for us all was watching the production of ‘Annie’ and the Leavers Assembly showed how mature and confident they have become. They are fully prepared for secondary school and we hope they keep in touch as we love to know how they are getting on – Good Luck and Best Wishes to each and every one of you. 

Return Date 

We once again thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you back in school on Wednesday 3^rd September. 

Have a wonderful summer. 

Alison Harvey