Headteacher’s Weekly News

Dear Parents A huge thank you for your amazing generosity on Monday. I have never seen so many cakes! It was such a great atmosphere at the cake sale as the children really felt the good that they were doing and who doesn’t love cake. The cake sale raised a whopping £354! Well done Emma…

Dear Parents Year 5 and 6 began the week by going to the Theatre Royal Brighton to see Adventures on Trains, a special author and illustrator event. The author spoke about how they came up with their ideas and treated the audience to a reading of their new book. While the illustrator was live drawing…

Dear Parents Welcome back to school. We hope that you all had a great half term break and that the children are refreshed and ready to learn. Bodiam’s dress up and disco at the end of term raised an impressive £111.83 for their charity Raystede. Thank you to everyone that supported this event. Mrs Slaymaker…

Dear Parents Year 6 competed in the ISA Regional Qualifying Netball Tournament last Friday. Again Deepdene were so very close in qualifying for the National Finals. They were in the quarter final up until the last 10 seconds of our last game when the qualifying team scored to make it 1-1. They pushed us 5th…

Dear Parents We had a great start to the week with our drumming assembly. Lots of children had the opportunity to have a try on the drum kit. There was lots of interest in the lessons and no need to buy a full kit but a drumming practice pad. Please let us know if this…

Dear Parents We started the week with a Space Assembly. The children sat completely enthralled as they listened to Mrs King tell us all about Space. Then the rocks arrived and there was a feeling of excitement throughout the school. What a privilege to have genuine samples of moon rock collected by the Apollo missions…

Dear Parents Eco Club’s litter pick at Wish Park was really successful last Friday and the children made a real difference. The flower beds were cleared of any rubbish that had blown in there and the children received many positive comments from other park users. House meetings were held this week. The House Captains and…

Dear Parents We are pleased to welcome new members into our school community in Years 5 and 6 this term. We know that the children will make them feel very welcome. DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) week has been fantastic and we have all benefitted from the chance to read more. I have visited each…

Dear Parents Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely break and the children are ready for the new term. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very much for your generous presents, cards and kind words that we received at the end of term, it was very much appreciated. Our Inset…

Dear Parents Well done to Etty and Felicity, Heads of Herstmonceux, who raised a whopping £165.63 for their charity last week. The children looked great in their outfits and the cakes were delicious! We also raised £86 pounds for Save the Children today. Thank you so much for all your support this term with our…