GLF Schools was founded in 2012 in order to enable the federation of Glyn School (an academy in 2011) and Danetree Junior School. Together, we began our journey to become a MAT of more than 1000 talented staff working with over 10,000 children in 40 schools across 5 regions in southern England.
It’s with mixed emotions I am writing this message to you all as the year draws to a close and a new chapter will be opening at the schools from September.
Another 2 weeks have flown by at the schools with lots of activities going on in and outside of the classrooms, which you will be able to see in the following pages of the newsletter!
The Spring term never ceases to amaze me as to how quickly it whizzes by! It’s already been a super busy one at the schools with various events going on ranging from sports to Ofsted to Par…
As we race towards what I am sure will be busy and action-packed half terms, I want to say a huge well done to the staff and children for being so adaptable during what’s been a bit of a to…
A warm welcome back to Spring term and wishing everyone the best for 2024! It has been lovely to see the children settle quickly back in to school life and straight back in to their learnin…
Another busy fortnight, Key Stage 1 have been busy building different models of their local buildings/ or of the houses in 1600 London related to their learning and EYFS continuing to learn…
What another busy week it has been at the school .. we’ve been busy with tours for the new academic year and we are well into our new GLF curriculum and are eagerly awaiting the outcomes of…
The last couple of weeks have been quite busy at Lightwater Village School. Children have had their photos taken, then Crazy Hair Day and the Late Summer Fete at the weekend.
We say farewell to our Year 2 children today as we break for the summer. We had a wonderful leavers assembly this morning with our Year 2 parents in attendance. We wish our Year 2 children …
This week’s newsletter is themed around “Appreciation”. Firstly, I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to the LVSPA who have worked tirelessly this academic year to raise funds for our sc…
I hope you all enjoyed our Sports Day last Friday. It was such a fantastic event and the children thoroughly enjoyed their team races and individual races. Fortunately, we had enough time f…
I hope that you have all been able to enjoy the start of the nicer weather and what hopefully appears to be Summer…finally! The weather forecast for the half-term is looking good and can I …
I am thrilled to share that our roof works have now been completed. Thank you for your support through this. We will now be re-opening the front blue gates at Catena Rise for you to access …
Two terms down…..1 to go! I cannot believe that we will be heading into the summer term once we return after the Easter break. We have had a wonderful spring term with lots of extra activit…
We have some new playtime equipment for the children to enjoy at lunch times. Thank you to our wonderful LVSPA who have helped to fund this project in order to improve our lunchtime provisi…
I am excited to share with you that we are in the early stages of designing our school library. The children will be heavily involved in the process so watch out for more details as this wh…
I thoroughly enjoyed attending the Year 1 trip to Windsor Castle on Friday- it was a great way to end the working week. The children were inquisitive throughout and were mesmerised by the i…
Our first Parent Forum meeting took place last week and it was great to have the opportunity to have discuss points raised by our school community. Thank you to the ‘Class Reps’ for their t…
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and enjoyed the festivities as a family. I most definitely had the holiday blues when we returned to school for INSET on Tuesda…
As the autumn term comes to an end, I have been reflecting on the various events that have taken place across the past 15 weeks. When Ofsted visited back in September, I had only been in po…
When I sit down to write our fortnightly newsletter, I can never quite believe how quickly the two weeks have passed; I guess it is the sign of a busy school life! We had a successful filmi…
What a busy two weeks it has been! Our return from half term began with INSET where all staff had further training on our new behaviour policy and the importance of developing fluent reader…
What a busy two weeks we have had! Our Ofsted Inspectors were captivated with the launch of our new Lightwater bear. Well done to all the children (and adults!) who contributed to the board…
Each of our schools has its own distinct character and culture which is respectful of its community and context but their utmost common ground is that it is our staff that make each school.
GLF Schools trading as Lightwater Village School is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (registered number 07551959). Registered office: GLF Schools, Picquets Way, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 1AG.