A team of 10 of our year 5/6 children had the pleasure of attending the Y.D.P Primary School Festival at Stanground Academy. The children competed against other local primary school's, participating in Basketball, Handball and Dodgeball, before having a short fun session in the pool to conclude the day's activities.
The following classes are open:
Reception (starfish/Jellyfish)
Year 1 (Seahorse/Coral)
Year 2 (Dolphin)
Year 6 (Shark/Turtle)
This terms attendance winners are.................
100% of parents who completed survey would recommend our school.
School re-opens on Wednesday 4th January
Today children from Leighton Pre-school came to join our Reception children for our annual Christmas dinner. All the children had a cracker each and wore their Christmas crowns. Lots of the staff joined the children to share our Christmas dinners together. I highly recommend the chocolate orange sponge for pudding!
Tree donated by Burghley Estate in Stamford
Two children visited The Burghley Estate to choose and help cut down Leighton's Christmas Tree. A big thank you to the team at Burghley Estate who kindly donated the tree and their time to make this a really magical experience for the children and staff. We can't wait to see this tree in school.
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist born in 1929, who likes using dots in her art. Her Obliteration Room is being displayed at the Tate Modern Gallery; it is a white room transformed into a sea of colour with dots. Here is Leighton’s piece inspired by her work.
At the end of October, the children took part in our first Spelling Bee Challenge! There were many examples of fantastic spelling across the whole school and lots of the children made great improvements. Well done everyone!
Below are winners and most improved spellers:
Year 6 Overall Winner: Bobby
Barracuda Winner: Shane Most Improved: Austeja
Shark Winner: Bobby Most Improved: Anea
Turtle Winner: Frankie Most Improved: Hannah
Year 5 Overall Winner: Kacya
Manta-Ray Winner: Jaime Most Improved: Aaliyah, Melody , Logan
Stingray Winner: Joshua Most Improved:
Year 4 Overall Winner: Elianah
Marlin Winner: Tasneem Most Improved: Liepa, Sufyan, Lucy, Rylee,
Swordfish Winner: Liam, Most Improved: Joshua
Year 3 Overall Winner: Elaina
Lobster Winner: Lukas Most Improved: Piotr
Octopus Winner: Elaina Most Improved: Raea
Year 2 Overall Winner:
Sea-Lion Winner: Renata Most Improved: Adam
Dolphin Winner: Daniella Most Improved: Amirah
Year 1
Coral Winner:: Jasmine Most Improved: Olivia
Seahorse Winner: Tayla Most Improved: Armandas
Dear Families
We have contractors coming to the site this evening at 5pm to carry out remedial works. We are anticipating Leighton will reopen tomorrow. We will confirm via email/message as early as possible.
All being well, we look forward to seeing you all tomorrow. Thanks again for your patience and support.
Dolphin Class (Year 2) were very excited to be presented with the Best Class Attendance Trophy recently with 98.2% attendance last half term. The children were even more excited when they learnt that they also had a special pizza and chips lunch planned as a reward. Sadly, there were no photos taken but the pizza and chips were enjoyed by all. When the Attendance news was shared with parents and carers, it was lovely to see the responses congratulating the children on their achievement.