New Leaf Learning

🚴WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT FOR CHILDREN WHO NEED US MOST🚴
When? Sat. 20th June, 7am-Sun 21st June, 7am
Where? at Egerton Hall, Brackley NN13 6GN
Who? Tony Hopkin Tony Hopkin What? Duathlon: 24 hour Cycling and running
💚 Every mile Tony covers represents a child who needs understanding.
💚 Every donation helps provide life-changing support.
💚 Every person who turns up to cheer him on makes a difference.
📍 Join us anytime on Saturday 20th June at Egerton Hall Brackley, NN13 6GN and/or from 6.30am on Sunday 21st June to show your support and be part of something special.
Together, we can help more children find confidence, connection and a place where they can thrive.
Please donate, share and come along to support Tony's incredible challenge.
Councillor Fiona Baker

1st rule of leadership…
Be present.

Congratulations to New Leaf Learning who now hold the LOtC Quality Badge.

Their Founder, Alex Preston, told us what the award means to them and how it has helped them to develop their offer🫶

Find out more about the award
➡️https://ow.ly/kq2l50Z8G2R

Bark is a tree's identity — visible in every season, in all weathers, even without leaves or flowers. 🌳

Smooth barks — the easiest to recognise:
— Silver birch: pure white with fine horizontal black markings, peeling in thin papery strips
— Beech: smooth silver-grey, almost uncracked even on mature trees, pleasant to the touch
— Wild cherry: glossy red-brown with clearly defined horizontal lenticels — like dashes scored across the trunk

Patterned barks — each with its own distinct texture:
— Hornbeam: grey and ribbed, with a muscular fluted appearance along the trunk
— Sweet chestnut: deep fissures that spiral with age, typically clockwise
— London plane: a multicoloured jigsaw of beige, grey-green, and brown, shedding in plates to reveal pale bark beneath

Deeply furrowed barks — not to be confused with one another:
— Oak: deep irregular fissures, grey-brown, becoming more pronounced with age
— Black locust: interlaced vertical fissures, deeper and more regular than oak — naturalised in Britain
— Lime: parallel vertical fissures, more regular and shallower than the two above

Colours that don't lie:
— Scots pine: look at the upper trunk — it turns a distinctive salmon-orange, unique among our common trees
— Ash: grey-beige criss-crossed in regular diamond shapes, like a geometric mosaic
— White poplar: pale greenish-white with dark diamond-shaped lenticels — distinct from birch, which peels

The trunk speaks to those who know how to listen 🌿

Courteenhall Estate opens its gates for family farm day

See you tomorrow !

We are recruiting.... Please call in to the school office to collect an application form if you are interested in applying for the position