Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Exciting new improvement to our school website calendar

  Wed 06 Jan 2016

  Dear Parents/carers

   

  A new feature of the school’s website allows you to subscribe to events from the school calendar so that they download into your own personal calendar on your mobile phone, tablet or computer.

   

  All you need to do is visit the calendar on the school website and click the link called ‘Link the school events to your personal calendar’. You can then choose from three options: to add to your default calendar (for example, on an iPhone it will go to the iPhone calendar); to add it to your Google calendar; or input it to your calendar programme of choice.

   

  Things to know:

  •               If the school edits its calendar, the updates will appear automatically in your calendar (the time that this takes to happen will depend on your calendar programme).

  •               You cannot edit the events in the school calendar.

  •               All events will pull through in one colour only, not the colours set by the school.

  •               You can name the calendar and choose how often to receive updates (we recommend you set this to as often as possible).

  •               You can unsubscribe via your own calendar at any time.

   

  If you have any questions or feedback, please let the office know and we can forward them to the school’s website provider.

• NEW end of day arrangements for Key Stage 2

  Tue 05 Jan 2016

  With immediate effect, children in Key Stage 2 (years 3, 4, 5 and 6) are now to be collected directly from the Key Stage 2 playground.

   

  The reasons behind the new arrangements are as follows:

  • to create a safer, less congested dismissal of all children

  • to create more space for parents when waiting to collect children

  • to provide opportunities for staff and parents to communicate more effectively at the end of the school day

   

  As with all school procedures, we put the safety and well-being of our children ahead of the convenience for ourselves, as staff, or parents. Although we have listened to your concerns and suggestions in how to improve our end of day arrangements, I accept that these new arrangements may not be the perfect solution for everyone. A great deal of time and discussion has taken place to try to find the best practice but we realise that with a large school there may be teething problems. We will therefore trial the new arrangements until February half-term and would welcome any constructive feedback on how the new system works for you and your child.

   

  We hope that once the new arrangements are in place and established, you will see an improvement not only in safer dismissal but also in communication between parents and staff.

   

  If you have any particular concerns about the new arrangements please do not hesitate to speak to me or contact me via the school office.

   

  Thank you for your patience and understanding.

   

  Mr J Manclark

  Deputy Headteacher 

• Children back to school!

  Tue 05 Jan 2016
  The first day back for the children after the Christmas break is Tuesday 5th January 2016.

• INSET Day - school closed for children

  Mon 04 Jan 2016
  INSET Day - 4th January 2016

• Happy New Year

  Fri 01 Jan 2016
  Happy New Year to all of our children, parents/carers and staff. Here's looking forward to an enjoyable and successful 2016.