Head’s Blog

Happy New Year and welcome back to Beckfoot. What a start we have had to 2025. I cannot recall a more challenging start to a term but I am hopeful that you feel that we got it right for the…

Breaking records and the most incredible talent in the final week of term. The Autumn term is the longest one we do in education and is often the most challenging. It is the term that sees summer roll into winter…

From Bradford to Sheffield to Downing Street! When you have a school community as big as ours it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with what is happening right across school and beyond. Luckily, I have lots of you…

November has been all about opportunities. This week’s blog is all about opportunity and a strong desire to provide as much of that as we can for our students at Beckfoot. When we talk about opportunities we mean enrichment in…

Celebrating our students and all they are doing. Before I do that, I wanted to say how really lovely it was to see so many of you at the Bingley Remembrance event in Myrtle Park last Sunday morning. I was…

The strongest start I have ever known and the most wonderful of evenings. I want to begin my final blog of this half term with a thank you. I want to thank our staff, students and families for the part…

Our girls are doing incredible things. This week’s blog is a celebration of the many amazing things our girls have been doing across school in recent weeks. I am so proud of their achievements and the manner in which they…

Students and staff continue to shine. It’s October already and at this time of year, I am always taken by surprise at how quickly the weeks seems to pass. I guess it’s because things are so busy in such a…

It has been a remarkably smooth start. As you would expect, a lot has happened since my last blog but I want to begin with a thank you for your incredible support since our return a few weeks ago. Our…