Throughout the year every class holds an event that parents & carers can come along and enjoy. Reception and Year 1 hold a Christmas Nativity and Mothers’ Day Assembly; Year 2 and Year 3 hold Christmas Nativity and Fathers’ Day Assembly. We also hold Carols by Torchlight at Christmas, a Year 4 ad Year 5 Production in the spring and we hold a very special Leavers service for Year 6 in their final week at Lutley.

Throughout the year we organise curriculum related workshops that aim to help you support your child at home. Parents have benefitted from attending workshops on phonics and reading, maths calculations, relationship and sex education, SATs tests, secondary choices, and residential trips. We always take feedback from parents following these workshops to see how we can tailor the events to make then even more worthwhile next time. Parents are also invited in to an Inspire session where they can come into school and work alongside their child.

We are so lucky at Lutley. We have parents, carers and grandparents willing to spend time in school, helping children complete tasks and enabling us all to learn from each other. By freely sharing their time, knowledge, memories and skills they enrich our learning.

In the outdoor environment, volunteers have helped with projects large and small, from redeveloping the nature area beside the school drive to supervising the sowing of seeds. Over the year, we engage with our Ground force Team, to help sustaining the productivity of the vegetable garden and the beauty and biodiversity of our school grounds.

At Forest School, parent volunteers are essential as we must have at least five adults present to safely supervise the children. We have been blessed with great supporters who not only make up the numbers but really get stuck into the Forest School activities and make the sessions go smoothly.

At Farm School, parents and grandparents are invited to help Year 3 with their sessions in the allotment; supervising groups and teaching them how to carry out all sorts of horticultural skills from digging and weeding, to sowing seeds and harvesting produce. Their assistance means that groups of children can be engaged in several different activities at once so everyone is busy. They present wonderful role models for the children and the children love to have their company and learn from different adults.