👕🎉 PTFA Non-Uniform Days 2026–2027! 🎉👕 We're sharing our planned non-uniform dates for the year so families can plan ahead! 📅 💷 £1 donations can be made through Arbor or by bringing cash into school. 🍫 Our November non-uniform day will be a chocolate donation instead of £1, and our disco days are for the relevant key stages only. All money raised helps support school events and activities, including Prom! We'll send reminders nearer each event and confirm any outstanding dates. Thank you for your continued support! 🌟 The PTFA

Year 6 Autumn 1 champions Top boy and girl. 100% attendance and zero behaviour points. 6AB took home the award for best form in year 6 🏆

To help our 12 lucky winners relax and unwind over the half term holiday, Mrs Lowndes hid 12 books from The National Literacy Trust around school! 📚 The books were wrapped up and hidden for pupils to find, and our lucky winners got to take their books home to enjoy over the break! 🎉 We hope you enjoy your new books and have a lovely half term filled with reading! 🖤

Our prefect team enjoyed a full English breakfast as a special thank you for their outstanding efforts in helping to run the school throughout this half term. From supporting staff and students to setting a brilliant example every day, their hard work and dedication has not gone unnoticed. It was wonderful to see them relax and enjoy some time together after a busy few weeks - a well-earned reward for a fantastic group of young leaders!

🌟 YEAR 5 AUTUMN 1 CHAMPIONS! 🌟 What a fantastic first half term our Year 5 pupils have had at James Bateman Middle School! 🏆 BEST FORM AWARDS 🏆 A massive well done to 5SLF and 5BES, who have both been awarded Overall Best Form for Autumn 1! What an incredible achievement! 🎉 🌟 TOP BOY & TOP GIRL AWARDS 🌟 A HUGE congratulations to Bothwell and Taylor, who have been crowned our Autumn 1 Top Boy and Top Girl! 🥇 Both pupils have achieved an outstanding: 100% attendance 0 behaviour points The highest housepoint totals in Year 5! What fantastic role models you both are! We are incredibly proud of you! 👏 What an amazing start to middle school life! We are so proud of ALL our Year 5 pupils for the enthusiasm, determination and positive attitudes they have shown throughout their first half term at James Bateman. Enjoy your well-deserved half-term break! We can't wait to see what incredible things you go on to achieve in Autumn 2! Keep shining, Year 5!