School News - 10th September 2025

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Sep 10
5 min read

Updated: Sep 19

Autumn Term 2025

Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome to the first newsletter of the new academic year! It has been lovely to see the children returning to school after their long Summer break - it was lovely to welcome all our new Reception children last week and our Nursery children who have begun their journey with us today. We hope all your children have enjoyed getting to know their new teachers, catching up with their friends and starting to make new ones.

Every two weeks we will publish a newsletter - usually on a Friday - to keep you informed of any important dates and to share some of the exciting events that take place at our school. We try and give as much information as possible in the newsletter so that we can reduce the amount of separate letters. Parents have told us that they would find that helpful.

Please take a few moments to have a read through and note the dates of any events that are relevant to you or your child.

Have a lovely rest of the week!

Mrs Arnold

Uniform Policy

General Uniform

All children are required to wear full uniform and this includes sturdy, black school shoes – trainers/pumps are not permitted. Children may wear either the Summer or Winter uniform up until October half term. After half term, all children must wear the Winter uniform.

If you need to purchase school ties, please do so through Arbor, our online payment system and we will facilitate giving these to the children in class. If you are new to the school and do not yet have Arbor please contact the School Office.

Hair that is shoulder length or longer should be tied back and beads in hair should not be worn.

We have noticed some children returning wearing items such as necklaces and bracelets - this is not permitted due to health and safety therefore children will be asked to remove these items.

PE Uniform

Children from Years Reception to 6 are now permitted to wear a PE uniform for school on their identified PE day.

We do expect parents and children to adhere to the uniform requirements.

PE sweatshirt - this can either be embroidered with the school logo or plain navy but it must be a sweatshirt and not a hoody of any kind. There should not be a zip or a hood. This is for health and safety reasons.

PE bottoms - either jogging bottoms, leggings or PE shorts can be worn, these must be plain navy without any writing or logos.

Footwear - Trainers should be plain white or black and should be a sports trainer not a fashion trainer as children will be taking part in both indoor and outdoor PE sessions. Hi-tops are not permitted as they do not allow the freedom of movement needed during the wide range of PE opportunities.

Children should not be wearing sparkly, coloured, shiny trainers.

Jewellery - Please can we remind parents that earrings cannot be worn for PE sessions and should either be removed before school or the child must remove them before the session. If your child is removing their own earrings please send in a small box or bag for your child to keep their earrings clean and safe. School staff are unable to remove earrings for children nor can staff apply plasters over earrings.

Children do still have the option to wear their normal school uniform on PE days and can then change into their PE kit before the PE session.

PE/Swimming Tuition Timetable

Please see the timetable below for your child's PE/Swimming tuition days:

Class Dojo

Thank you to all parents who have signed up for Class Dojo - we are hoping you have already started to see the benefits of knowing where your child is being awarded positive points. We also share information/messages/photos of work on the class stories.

Please note - Class Dojo is not a forum to send messages to staff. Teachers will not see your messages as this function is disabled. Please follow the usual procedures for contacting school either by contacting the Office by phone or using the postbox email. We will ensure the right person gets back to you as soon as they can.

Parents with children who are new to our school will receive further information shortly about how to sign up for the Dojo App and relevant QR code.

Reception Baseline Assessment

If you have a child starting in Reception this year, they will be participating in the reception baseline assessment (RBA) within the first 6 weeks of starting. The purpose of the assessment is to provide the starting point for a progress measure that will help parents understand how well schools support their pupils to progress between reception and year 6.

A Guide for Parents explaining this in more detail can be found on the following link

Information for parents: reception baseline assessment

Reminders - Safety whilst on school site

Please can we remind all parents to keep their children close by them when arriving/leaving school to avoid children being accidentally knocked by others or becoming separated and lost. Please avoid walking across the car park wherever possible and if necessary, please follow the pathway by the building and again, keep children close by. Children should not be riding on scooters or bikes on site. These should be walked into school and stored in the bicycle shelters.

Children should not be bringing their own footballs into school and children are not permitted to play football on our site before or after school.

We are a non smoking site - this includes vapes.

Dogs are not permitted on site.

Mobile phones should not be used on site. Staff will remind you to keep these out of site - please do not question them, this is their job and this is part of our Safeguarding procedures.

Dates for your diary

Wednesday 10 September - Nursery pupils start

Friday 12 September - Animal Man in school

Friday 19 September - History Workshop for Year 6 – Tudors

Monday 22 September - 2:45pm – Reception Phonics Workshop

Wednesday 24 September - 6:00pm – Secondary Transfer Meeting

Thursday 25 September - 5:00pm - End of EYFS Expectations on Teams

Friday 26 September - History Workshop for Y4 – Egyptians

Monday 29 September - Extra Curricular Clubs/boosters begin

Thursday 2 October - 4:30pm – 7:00pm Back to school Discos

Thursday 9 October - 9:00 - Year 1 Phonics Workshop for parents

Friday 10 October - World Mental Health Day

Wednesday 15 October - 8:00am – 10:30am Advisory School Committee (ASC0 meeting

Monday 20 October - 4:00pm – 6:20pm – Parent/Carer Consultations

Wednesday 22 October - 3:40pm – 5:40pm – Parent/Carer Consultations

Friday 24 October - 9:15am Year 1 Harvest Festival

October Half Term: Monday 27th October 2025 - Friday 31st October 2025

Monday 3 November - School Re-opens

Thursday 6 November - 9:00 - Reception Phonics Workshop for parents

Monday 10 November - Anti-Bullying Week

Odd Socks Day

Tuesday 11 November - Remembrance Events

Thursday 13 November - Year 1 Trip

Friday 14 November - Children in Need Day

Monday 17 November - After School clubs finish this week

Tuesday 18 November - Photographer in school - individual photos

Thursday 20 November - Year 5 Trip

Tuesday 25 November - Photographer in - Sibling photos

Thursday 27 November - Flu vaccination catch up sessions

Wednesday 3 December - Reception trip

Friday 5 December - 5:00 - 7:00 - Christmas Fayre

Thursday 11 December - 2:30pm - Reception Production

Friday 12 December - 9:30 - Reception Production

Wednesday 17 December - Wear a Christmas Item/Christmas Dinner Day

Friday 19 December - 9:30am - Year 5 Carol Concert

School closes

Christmas Break: Monday 22nd December 2025 - Friday 2nd January 2026

Term Dates for Next Year

Please avoid booking holidays in term time. We are unable to authorise holidays and they do incur a Fixed Penalty Notice which is £80 per child per parent.