Dear Parents

Please read the very important information below about P.E. kit.

We recently sent a message home saying that on P.E. days the children could come to school in their kit. This increases the amount of time for physical activity and supports those older children that are beginning to become self conscious about changing in front of their peers. 

This kit must be as follows:

Plain black shorts or joggers - not leggings - they are not appropriate for P.E as they are too thin and revealing. 

A plain red T shirt

Black trainers

Their normal school sweatshirt - not a hoody or a tracksuit top. 

If you do not have the items above children should come to school in their normal uniform and change into their P.E. clothes before the P.E. lesson.

At the moment too many children are not following rules, coming into school in branded tracksuits, hoodies and colourful trainers. This means that school looks like a non uniform day every day and attitudes in class are slipping.

We MUST and will uphold our standards. School is a place of learning not a place for high end sports fashion. 

Please support us and make sure that your child has the correct P.E. kit or comes to school in their normal uniform every day and gets changed before the P.E. lesson. 

If children continue to come into school in inappropriate clothing for P.E. we will stop the system and go back to all children having to change in school before the lesson. 

Thank you. 

Thank you to all parents that have supported us and followed our Covid protective measures including wearing masks on the school site.

As restrictions are gradually being relaxed there is no longer a need to wear masks on the site from Monday 17th May. 

Please do continue to maintain a safe distance from others on the playground. 

Thank you to everyone for donating to The Book Trust through our Pyjamarama day yesterday. We raised £265.95p.

We also had lots of fun completing reading activities and reading lots of books in our PJs!

Urgent Safeguarding Message

Does your child have a mobile phone?

Do they have access to TikTok?

Do you screen and monitor what they can see?

We are becoming increasingly worried about the things that children are talking about in school that they have seen on TikTok.

Tik Tok accounts are for over 14 years old for a reason.

This week children have seen posts on Tik Tok about Saturday being National Rape Day and about children being at risk.

If your child has a phone, please take TikTok off it to help to protect them from these vile and harmful posts. 

No child at Primary School is legally old enough to have these accounts, or Whatsapp.

They are causing harm to the children, exposing them to adult material and making them vulnerable to online bullying. Please resist the peer pressure and keep your child safe. Thank You. 

Important Dates for your diary.

I am informing you of a change to the date of parents' consultation.

We were scheduled to hold the consultations on March 17th and school would have been closed to pupils.  As the children are only returning on 8th March, staff will not have enough knowledge to share with you about your children's learning after only 2 weeks back in school. We would also like to avoid another lost day of learning. So, the parents' consultation day has been moved to Wednesday July 14th. By then, we will be able to provide you with a detailed written report and hold a meeting with you. Please make a note of the date in your diary. School will therefore be open on Wednesday 17thMarch. 

Unfortunately school will be used as a polling station on Thursday 6th May. We have been asked to be removed from the Council's list as a polling station, but as the Woodgate Valley Country Park is used as a covid testing site, the council need our school to be used as 2 polling stations this year. This means that school will be closed to the children on Thursday 6th May. Please also add this date to your diary. Thankyou. 

Later this week, those entitled to free school meals will receive a voucher for £15 per child. This is to cover half term week. Keep an eye out on your email for the cheque number and validation codes. 

After half term, we will revert back to lunch hampers which will be ready for collection on Tuesday 23rd February.