Date for your diaries! Come and join us on the 18th of July to be part of our Summer Fair. Whether it be running your own stall or simply enjoying time with your children and seeing what on offer.

💖Team Bilsthorpe - Pretty Muddy 2025💖
The inspiration for this race is Mrs Pitts’s cousin Hazel - absolute legend, will do anything for anybody, always has a smile on her face and is genuinely one-in-a-million. After finding out she had cancer in April 2023, she went through 6 months of intensive chemo, 2 lots of surgery and 15 rounds of radiotherapy. All whilst bringing up two very young girls. In September 2024, she got the all-clear but sadly after feeling unwell and having more tests in March, she found out this month that the cancer is back and it's terminal. She's 39, has a husband a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old. It's heartbreaking.

Karen an amazing and much-loved member of staff at Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy, has also been given a similar diagnosis - stage 4 breast cancer which is treatable but incurable. 

There are many other personal stories close to the hearts of staff at Bilsthorpe linked to this horrible disease. Doing this race won't change the situation for Hazel or Karen but it's one small way that as school team we are trying to help. Any donations are greatly appreciated.

Team Bilsthorpe x

http://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/team-smile-2

This afternoon, F2 created a flag to celebrate VE day tomorrow! Children are invited to come dressed in red, white or blue to show their patriotic spirit by dressing in the colours of the Union Jack.

Year 6 started their "Why leave a legacy?" hook today. We discussed what a legacy was who may leave a legacy. We had a lovely discussion about the legacy that Mrs Butt has left and why it is important to talk about that. We then thought about a legacy that we would like to leave in conjunction with learning about street art and combined the two to create our own graffiti legacy wall.

Last week we had a visit from Hope Gordon (Paralympian Athlete). She showed the children her silver medal and completed a range of exercises with each year group. The children asked some great questions during the Q&A. A huge thank you to all the children that raised money and collected sponsorships towards this experience. Your hard work and generosity is noticed.