This is where you will find all of the information that will keep you up to date with our latest events!

• Covid Update

  Sat 20 Mar 2021
   Thank you to everyone for supporting our procedures and routines on the school site. We appreciate that the arrangements at the end of the day mean that parents are spending more time waiting to collect their children and we are very grateful for your support and patience.
   Thank you also for continuing to wear face coverings when you are on the school site and for supporting our classroom organisation by reminding the children not to bring bags into school.
   Please do not send children to school if they or anyone in your household displays COVID-19 symptoms. If a child or anyone in your household develop any symptoms everyone must remain
  at home and make arrangements to be tested. 
   

• William Shakespeare Week

  Thu 18 Mar 2021
  It has been a fun week in school learning about William Shakespeare. Take a look at the Reception toadstools houses and characters based on A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

  

• Living Walls

  Thu 18 Mar 2021
  Our Living Walls are starting to take shape.  

  

• Living Walls

  Mon 15 Mar 2021

  We are very excited to have been awarded a small
  grant to take part in a “Living Walls” research project,
  with the Royal Society of Education and a STEM partner from University of Loughborough. The project will involve researching the impact on children’s well-being when learning in a greener and more natural environment, both in the classroom and outdoors. We now need lots of plants, so if you have green fingers or have family or friends who would be willing to donate a plant or seeds, we would be very grateful!

  
  Below is a list of plants that have been tested by NASA to 'grow fresh air' : Areca Palm, Dragon Tree, Anthurium, Snake Plant, Aloe Vera, Heart-leaf philodendron, Spider Plant, Succulents.
  We are also hoping to grow strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes and add some colour with the use of bedding plants. Your support in growing a greener environment at school
  would be very welcome.

• Shakespeare Week

  Mon 15 Mar 2021

  This year’s Shakespeare Week, organised by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, carries the theme of wellbeing. We are looking forward to taking part in a range of virtual activities as this annual celebration aims to use Shakespeare’s works and his language to inspire children and help support their emotional well being.

  
   

• Red Nose Day

  Mon 15 Mar 2021
  To support Comic Relief 2021, we would like to invite the
  children to come to school dressed in red, or wearing spots or dressed as a Superhero! (Please don’t spend any money buying an outfit- homemade costumes are great.) If you wish to make a donation to Comic Relief, please visit their website and donate using the button at the bottom- you can add as much or as little as you like: http://donation.comicrelief.com/
  As well as taking the opportunity to be part of something positive, we’ll be using Red Nose Day as a learning opportunity. We’ll explore the issues facing young people across the
  world and how the money we raise can help. Please put Friday 19th March in your diary– we are looking forward to a fun day in school. 
   

• Parent / teacher consultations information

  Mon 15 Mar 2021

  Unfortunately we are still not able to welcome parents into school and as a result the Spring term parents consultations will take place over the phone rather than face to face. These telephone meetings are planned over two weeks– 22nd March to 1st April. The school office will send an email next week inviting you to book an appointment using the online booking system. Appointments will last 10 minutes and class teachers will be calling parents from a mobile phone which may register on your screen as an unknown number– please look out for this around the time of your appointment

  
   

• Reception Mother's Day cards

  Mon 15 Mar 2021
  We hope that you all had a lovely weekend and that the children enjoyed their first week back. We have loved seeing the first few signs of spring and the Reception children spent last week painting and drawing some beautiful spring flowers for their Mother's Day cards. 

  

• Are you seeking support for your child or your teenager who stammers? Or are you sitting on a waiting list for NHS support?

  Wed 10 Mar 2021

  Website: https://stamma.org/news-features/free-workshops-parents-young-people

   

  This February and March we are offering free online workshops for parents of children who stammer, and for 12 to 18 year-olds who stammer. This is thanks to a grant from the Pears Foundation, part of the Government's £750m charities package.

  We are holding the workshops on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Each one will be led by speech & language therapists who specialise in working with children and young people who stammer and their parents.

   

  Workshop for parents of primary school-aged children (aged 4-11)

  Saturday 20th March, 9:30am-12noon
  or
  Monday 29th March, 6:30pm-9pm

  The aim of this workshop is to help you as parents of children aged 4-11 understand why your child's stammer may have increased or started during the last year. They will look at the impact that lockdowns, intermittent school attendance and reduced social interactions may have had on them stammering.

  Get more information and register for the Workshop for parents of primary school-aged children (aged 4-11).

  

• Welcome Back!

  Mon 08 Mar 2021

  Morning routines

  • The front gate will be opened at 8.40am so the children who arrive at this time can wait on the path rather than close to the road at the front of school
  • School will open at 8.45am and all children are expected to arrive between 8.45am-9am
  • The Reception children should enter school through their outdoor play area into the canteen
  • Year 2 children should enter school through the front blue door
  • All other children should enter school through the Year 1 door.

  Routines at the end of the school day

  We recognise that parents have to queue to collect their children at the end of the day and would like to thank you for your patience with this. 

  We would also like to remind parents to wear face coverings on the school site and to ensure that they remain socially distanced from other families. We have changed the routines for some of the classes at the end of the day so please check the information below:

  • Reception- At 3pm the children in Reception should be collected from the canteen entrance. 
    We would like to remind parents of Reception children to queue close to the school building when collecting their children. 
  • Year 1 and Year 2- Parents of the Year 1 and Year 2  children can queue close to the perimeter fence and collect their children from the playground.
  • Year 3- At 3.10pm parents of children in Year 3 should collect their children from the playground
  • Year 5- At 3.10pm the Year 5 children will be escorted to the car park gate where they can be collected by their parents or meet their parents in an agreed place close to the school gate.
  • Year 4- At 3.15pm parents of the Year 4 children can collect their children from the playground
  • Year 6- At 3.15pm the Year 6 children will be escorted to the car park gate to meet their parents or to walk home independently if this has been agreed by families.

  Please remember that we are operating a one-way system and that the playground and site becomes very congested at the end of the day. As a result we would like to request that families collect their children and leave the site promptly. Thank you for your support in helping us to keep our community safe.

   

  Please email or phone school if you would like to ask any questions or share some information.

  To prevent parents from gathering in the main school reception, we would like to remind families to use the black post box by the main school door to drop off dinner money or any written communication.