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• Sutherland Sentinel Issue 34 - 2025/26

  Fri 12 Jun 2026

  Sutherland Sentinel Issue 34 - 2025/26

• Important information re: Societas Trust

  Fri 22 May 2026 Mrs. N. Clements

  Dear Parents/ Carers,
  I am delighted to share with you all that following a period of thorough discussion with our Trustees, Sutherland Primary Academy is joining the successful, inclusive North Staffordshire multi academy trust, The Societas Trust on an Associate Agreement as an Associate Member from September 2026.
  The purpose of the agreement is for the school and trust to collaborate together at all levels for the mutual benefit of the communities we each serve, with a view to Sutherland becoming a full member of the Trust following a period of successful collaboration (usually 12 months), a full consultation with stakeholders and DfE approval.
  Societas has been a friend of Sutherland for many years now, and we collaborate closely with them on many levels, and for many services already. We have lots of shared goals and visions – but the fundamental value of Integrity is something both school and Trust hold closely, to guide us and help us to make the right decisions for all of our stakeholders, especially children and staff.
  Our children will thrive as they learn, connect and achieve widely across the Trust with other children on a range of initiatives. They will also benefit from the added investment in great teaching and learning and enrichment opportunities.
  Our wonderful staff will also have the opportunity to collaborate more widely and learn together with a wide circle of colleagues from across the Trust through joint CPD and other opportunities being part of a wider family of schools will offer.
  We will also benefit from the support the Trust’s leadership and central team can provide us with, and from the many services and resources the Trust can offer us as an associate member.
  We will, however, retain our Sutherland identity, and our own vision and values for our school. Our children are learning to explore and live our new values, which were chosen to represent Sutherland by all of our stakeholders.
  I welcome this time of positive and exciting change for Sutherland and look forward to consulting with you all in the future as stakeholders. I want to assure you of my, the strategic team, and the Trustees deepest commitment to making Sutherland and everyone in our school and wider community the very best that we can be.
  Kindest regards,
  Mrs. Nicky Clements,
  Head Teacher

• SPRING TERM DIARY DATES.

  Fri 06 Feb 2026

  SPRING TERM DIARY DATES

  • Wednesday 11th February - Y3 Production ‘Rock Pool’, 2pm and 3.45pm-ticket details to follow
  • Thursday 12th February - Y3/Y4 Disco – 3.30pm – 4.45pm
  • - FS/KS1 Multi Skills at Fenton
  • Friday 13th February - School closes for half term
  • Monday 23rd February - School opens
  • Friday 27th February - Y5/Y6 Sportshall Athletics at Fenton Manor
  • Wednesday 4th March - Girls Football Festival at Fenton Manor
  • Thursday 5th March - Clay workshops for Y3 and Y4
  • Friday 6th March - Clay workshops for Y3 and Y4
  • Tuesday 10th March - Recorder Festival at Trentham Gardens
  • Thursday 12th March - Parents Evening
  • w/c 16th March - Y2 Trips to Ford Green Hall
  • Wednesday 25th March -  Y1 Performance at 9.30am – 10.30am - Y1 Performance at 2.30pm – 3.30pm
  • Thursday 26th March - PTFA After School Disco for Y1 and Y2
  • Friday 27th March - School closes for Easter
  • Monday 13th April - School opens

• Significant Snow Arrangements.

  Tue 06 Jan 2026

  Significant snow arrangements

  Our site team and contractors work incredibly hard to ensure that the site is as safe as we can make it for school to open at all times. We are proud to have a very strong historic record of keeping school open to allow children to be in school and parents to be at work. If we do not contact to say school is closed, you can bring children to school if you can safely do so.

  The safety of our school community is paramount and therefore should a risk assessment of the site mean that we have to close the school, or open late, we will make the decision as early as possible on the day, and communicate it with parents via a direct Text to Parents (T2P), the school website (Sutherlandprimary.co.uk) and our Facebook page. If your child is attending the before-school Breakfast Club, please speak with staff in person, before leaving your child at school.

  However, please be warned that extreme conditions or related incidents can occasionally change things even at the last moment, and should that happen, we ask for patience if we need to make late changes to arrangements to keep people safe.