FRIDAY BULLETIN # 38, 18 JULY 2025

Learning for Life
Knowledge ~ Values ~ Opportunities

Dear Parents/Carers,

1. ANNUAL REPORTS ON MCAS

You will all have received your child’s annual school report on the MCAS App today. Reports for children in Year 6 were sent on Parentmail.

If you have not received your child’s report, please contact the school office on Monday

2. SCHOOL FOOD IN SEPTEMBER

Don’t forget to sign up to www.schoolmealsonline.co.uk for your child’s school meals in September.  

By the end of July, set up your Ideal Foods account. Menus will go live towards the end of the month.

By 09:00am, 23 August 2025, order your meals for the first week of term.

There are helpful guides on our website if you need them.

3. PERMISSION FOR YEAR 4 AND YEAR 5 TO WALK HOME/ BRING A MOBILE PHONE NEXT YEAR

Children in Year 4 and Year 5 were sent home with a paper copy of the school’s Mobile Phone Agreement this week. If your child is not in Year 5 or Year 6 in September, they are not expected to bring a phone to school.

This form must be completed and returned to school by Thursday 4 September 2025. Without the form, children will not be allowed to bring their phone into school.

During the school holidays, it can be posted in the green post box, next to the defibrillator, next to the gates of the staff car park.

As an alternative to bringing a phone to school, parents/carers are now using a SmartTag instead.  This allows you to track your child so that you know that they have got to and from school safely.

4. CURRICULUM VISITS FOR 2025-2026

Attached is a list of proposed visits and prices for next academic year.  As in previous years, we share this with you now as we know from your feedback, many of you like to know what you’ve got to budget for.  The prices are estimates assuming all parents/carers contribute to the cost. Information about visits in the autumn term will be shared with you in the new academic year.

5. READING NEWSLETTER

Our English Leads, Miss Abell and Mrs Cooper, would like to share their first reading newsletter (attached) with you. It contains information about an exciting summer competition the school is running!

6. STAFF LEAVING

As part of a review of the school’s operational needs, we have recently made the difficult decision to reduce the number of administrative staff within school.  Our administrative team play a vital role in the smooth day-to-day running of the school, so this decision has not been taken lightly. 

Mrs Cannon, Miss Keane, Miss Ward and Mrs Parkin will leave the school at the end of this term, on Tuesday. We are deeply grateful for their contributions to the school over the years; their work has been greatly valued within school, and we will miss them.  We wish them all the best for the future.

7. PE DAYS FOR SEPTEMBER

Attached are your child’s PE days for the autumn term.

Have a good weekend.

Regards,

Mrs Smith
Headteacher