It is with great sadness to let you know that our Learning Support Assistant, Dorothy 'Dolly' Brown, passed away on Saturday morning.

I know this will be a great shock to our families as well as our staff, not least as many of us saw Dolly last week, being her usual happy and caring self, greeting both staff and children with her customary, “Hello sweetheart. Hello my darling.”

We will, as a school, make sure that we do everything we can to support Dolly's family at this very sad time.

We will also, in time, find the best possible way to celebrate everything about Dolly, not least as a greatly valued colleague and friend who worked tirelessly for all of the children at our school.

I know that all of our thoughts are with Dolly's family.

Mr R Mitchell

Headteacher