I hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable Easter holiday break. Today at school, I told the children of some staffing changes at Moortown: sadly, the time has come for two of our teachers to move on to new challenges.
Miss Hewson has been successful in her application for a new teaching job in York, which is where she lives. As well as a more convenient location, her new post is part of the leadership team. This is great news: another teacher who joined us as a newly qualified teacher (NQT) now moves on to a leadership role. Miss Hewson is always a very cheerful, friendly person and most importantly is an outstanding teacher. After almost five very successful years at Moortown Primary, she will be very much missed. She will leave at the end of this half-term; one of our existing teachers in school (to be confirmed) will take over the class for the last half-term of the year whilst we recruit a new member of the teaching team.
Miss Maver also leaves us, this time at the end of the school year. Mrs Maver is one of the two Assistant Headteachers at Moortown Primary. She leaves us to take on the role of Deputy Headteacher in another Leeds school. Mrs Maver is great at keeping us all organised, as well as making sure the Y1 children learn so much! With four years of great work at Moortown Primary, she feels ready and able to take on new leadership challenges – I’m sure she’ll be most successful. Mrs Maver’s role will not be directly replaced; instead, Mrs Weekes, our other Assistant Headteacher, will move up to Acting Deputy Headteacher.
I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing them both every continued success.