Happy New Year! We wish you, your friends, family and loved ones a very happy, healthy, peaceful and prosperous New Year. I hope you have all enjoyed the festive period, and we welcome you back to the new school term and all of the exciting events that will be taking place across our family of schools this term. I would also like to thank everyone in our community who supported our December charity appeals. Our family of schools managed to collect food items, winter clothing and other important goods to assist the local food and clothing banks, as well as collect Christmas presents for local children. Community Makes Us and we are very privileged to be part of such a strong and supportive community here in Batley.

This term is crucial for all our young people to get the year off to a flying start and continue to have great attendance as they did last term, and to continue to work hard every lesson of every day, and always be the very best version of themselves. With hard work, ambition, dedication and determination all our young people can have a bright and exciting future ahead of them. As a very successful local business leader once said “The harder you work, the luckier you will be”.