   {"id":2653,"date":"2026-01-09T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/headteacher-blog-9th-january-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:30:10","slug":"headteacher-blog-9th-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/headteacher-blog-9th-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Headteacher blog 9th January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been a strong start to the new term and calendar year. I am still doing school tours for prospective families &#8211; they are cutting it fine with the Reception deadline next week &#8211; and school is settled and focused. As usual, we do these tours at any time or day: always seeing positive provision to be proud of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week both Year 3 classes have been to Bradford Alhambra to see a pantomime. For many, it was their first experience of a theatre and many were amazed at how big it was. On Tuesday, a couple of our children even got chosen to go on stage as part of the show &#8211; what a thrill! Next week, KS1 classes are each having a workshop with the British Library, Y1 classes are visiting Cartwright Hall gallery and Y4 classes have &#8216;Sam, the Sound Man&#8217; workshops. So busy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, the government officially published all the Y6 SATs data from last summer. We know that our classes did exceptionally well: second only to Pudsey Lowtown across the whole Pudsey\/Farsley\/Calverley area. Academic standards are strong in our school. Well done everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! It has been a strong start to the new term and calendar year. I am still doing school tours for prospective families &#8211; they are cutting it fine with the Reception deadline next week &#8211; and school is settled and focused. As usual, we do these tours at any time or Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headteachers-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchyprojects.co.uk\/2026\/dev\/transfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}