Dear Parents and Carers,

Just before we break up for a well deserved Easter break, I just wanted to draw your attention to a few areas of school life that we need to ensure are consistent after Easter so that we have a great summer term.

Attendance and punctuality

As you are all aware, attendance is both a school priority and a national priority. Attendance nationally is still lower overall than it was before 2020. Currently our attendance stands overall at 94.59% and as a school we aspire this to be at last 96%. For some of our children, arriving late to school significantly impacts their attendance score and also it means that they miss the crucial start of a lesson which can add to a child’s anxiety.

If for whatever reason, your child arrives late to school, as parents and carers, you are required to bring your child into the office to sign them in and provide a reason for their lateness. Myself, Mrs Gray and Mrs Hopcraft (Attendance Officer) are always happy to work with families to find solutions wherever possible to supporting attendance.

Uniform and PE Kits

Just a reminder that our school PE Kit consists of a blue T-shirt and plain black shorts, black joggers and black sweatshirt/hoodie. Trainers should be plain black or white. We have had some variation recently with designer logos and this has detracted from our aim of having an affordable and smart looking PE kit.  All PE uniform items should be plain and unbranded.

For our school uniform, children in the summer term can choose to wear, blue checked dress, dark grey trousers or shorts or skirts, white collared shirt with a tie or a plain white polo shirt. Trainers should not be worn with school uniform.

Behaviour Expectations

During the Summer term we are going to be completing our annual review of our Relationships (Behaviour) policy. To do this we shall be taking the view of children, staff and parents to help us refine our systems and processes further. We will be reminding children about our behaviour expectations in lessons, unstructured times as well as when they are leaving school to go home. In the spirit of working together, we always value your support when we require your assistance or if a member of our team makes contact with you.

Jewellery

Please can we remind parents that children are only permitted to wear simple silver or gold coloured studs (hooped earrings, even small hoops are not permitted for health and safety reasons). These must be removed for PE and Games lessons or covered with plasters brought from home. Children are allowed to wear a watch, but smart watches are not allowed, which must also be removed for PE/Games. 

Hair/Headwear

Hair bands, scrunchies or clips must be white, black, grey or navy.  No fancy or ornate hair accessories are allowed.  Hair colourant, excessive use of hair gel or patterns shaved into the hair are not permitted.  Religious headwear should be in line with school uniform colours of black, grey or navy.

Children are not permitted to wear coloured nail varnish or have acrylic nails/nail extensions.

As ever, please do come and speak to myself or Mrs Gray or our family support team if we can help in any way.

Thank you for helping us ensure we take pride in our kits and uniforms and our sense of being a school family is further strengthened.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Chamberlain                    Mrs Gray

Head Teacher                        Deputy Head Teacher