Dates for your diary

Hawkedale dates  2025/26

Autumn 1  

3rd / 4th   Sept – Inset days – No school as staff training days 

5th Sept - Back to School for Robins, Owls, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Herons and Kestrels 

5th/8th /9th – Optional Puffin home visits 

10th Sept – Puffin Class (Phoenix and Pegasus – 9am – 12.30pm)  

10th Sept - Meet the teacher sessions –Robins and Owls @ 2.20pm 

11th Sept –Puffin Class (Dragons and Griffins – 9am – 12.30pm) 

11th Sept - Meet the teacher sessions – Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Herons and Kestrels @2.20pm 

12th Sept – All Puffins start school 8.40am 

15th – 18th Sept – Kestrel house captain speeches  

(15th – Dragons, 16th – Griffins, 17th – Pegasus and 18th – Phoenix, voting will take place after each assembly and the winners announced in Friday’s celebration assembly) 

18th Sept - Meet the teacher sessions – Puffins 

19th Sept – Jeans for Genes Day  

24th – 26th Sept – Year 4 residential to Sayers Croft 

30th Sept – Kingfishers Road Safety Training 

22nd Oct – Individual photos 

22nd + 23rd Oct - Settling in parent evenings from 3.30pm (face to face) 

24th Oct - Harvest festival at St Mary’s Church for Puffins, Robins and Owls @ 9.30am 

24th Oct - School finishes at 3.10pm 

 

Half Term 

Autumn 2  

3rd Nov – Inset Day -– No school as staff training day 

4th Nov - Children back to school 8.40am 

10th – 14th Nov – Anti Bullying Week (Odd Sock Day 11th) 

11th Nov – Remembrance Day -2-minute silence and assembly 

14th Nov - Children in Need Day 

8th Dec – Rocksteady concert 

9th Dec – Puffin and Robin Nativity and Owls Christmas play – dress rehearsals for school 

10th Dec – Puffin and Robin Nativity 9.15am Owls Christmas play 2pm and 5.30pm 

11th Dec – Puffin and Robin Nativity 9.15am  

15th Dec – Pantomime for all classes – Beauty and the Beast 

17th Dec – Herons and Kestrels Carol Concert at St Mary’s church – 6pm (Rehearsal at the church on 15th @ 1.30pm) 

17th Dec – Christmas parties – mufti day 

18th Dec – Christmas jumper day with Christmas Lunch - school finishes at 1.30pm  

19th Dec - Inset Day -– No school as staff training day 

 

Christmas Holidays 

 

 

Spring 1  

5th Jan – Children back to school – 8.40am 

14th + 15th Jan – Book Look, a chance to look at your children’s books - 3.15 – 4pm  

14th Jan – Dragons and Griffins, 15th – Pegasus and Phoenix 

15th Jan - Year 6 SATs talk 

2nd – 6th Feb - Children’s Mental Health Week  

6th Feb - NSPCC number day – dress as a number or a rock star 

10th Feb – Safer Internet Day 

13th Feb - School finishes at 3.10pm 

 

Half Term 

Spring 2 

23rd Feb - Children back to school 8.40am 

4th March – Parents evening 3.30 – 6.30pm 

5th March – school closes at 1.30pm Parents evening from 1.50pm 

5th March – World Book Day (A whole morning of literacy activities for the children to enjoy) 

11th March - Kingfisher and Woodpecker Musical @ 2pm and 5.30pm 

16th March – Rocksteady concert 

23rd March – Class photos 

26th March – KS2 Easter service at 9.30am at St Mary’s Church  

27th March - Easter egg hunt  

27th March - School finishes at 1.30pm  

 

Easter Holidays 

 

Summer 1  

13th April - Children back to school 8.40am 

4th May - May Bank Holiday – No school 

11th – 14th May – KS2 SATs 

22nd May - School finishes at 3.10pm  

 

Half Term 

 

Summer 2  

Sport’s day tbc 

1st June - Children back to school 8.40am 

8th - 12th June – Year 1 phonics screening week 

13th – 16th June - Year 6 residential  

25th June– New puffin parents information evening 

29th/30th June – Art/DT exhibition in the hall 

3rd July - Sleepover – Owl Class 

10th July - Leavers celebration @ 5pm 

13th July – Rocksteady concert 

16th July - Year 6 leavers play @ 1.30pm and 6pm 

20th July – Colour Run 

21st July – Year 6 Leavers Assembly 

21st July - End of year family picnic 12pm 

22nd July – Inset day -– No school as staff training day