FRIDAY BULLETIN # 37, 11 JULY 2025

Learning for Life
Knowledge ~ Values ~ Opportunities

Dear Parents/Carers,

We’re getting closer to the end of the year… It’s shocking how quickly the end of the year comes round, isn’t it?

There is a lot of important information in this newsletter about wraparound care and school meals for September. Please read carefully and don’t hesitate to contact the school office with any questions.

1. ANNUAL REPORTS ON MCAS

We are planning to send your child’s annual report by the MCAS app on Friday 18 July. It will take some time to send them all out. If you haven’t received it by Monday 21 July, please contact the school office.

2. IDEAL SCHOOL MEALS

You have received a letter on MCAS with information about how to sign up for our new school meal provider from September, Ideal School Meals.  We have had some tasting sessions and we’ve been very impressed!  I have attached the letter again for your information.

Children in EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 will automatically be assigned free school meals, in line with the governments Universal Free School Meals (UIFSM). Please make sure you have selected the meal you would like your child to have.

Children in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM) in Year 3 to Year 6 will also be automatically given a hot school meal. Please make sure you select the meal your child would like.

We are particularly impressed with how Ideal School Meals provides food for children with allergies. If your child has a food allergy, they can provide a version of the meal without the allergen. For example, if the main option is macaroni cheese pasta, and your child has a gluten allergy, Ideal School Meals will make the macaroni cheese gluten-free. Or dairy-free, for example.

If your child has an allergy, you must make sure the school is aware.

*Parents/carers are responsible for checking the correct meals have been ordered.*

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.

3. WRAPAROUND CARE - USING MCAS TO BOOK FOR SEPTEMBER 2025

From today, if you go onto your MCAS app, you will be able to book wraparound care for your child(ren) from September 2025. The booking process should be straightforward but please use our handy guide to booking using the MCAS app (attached). If there are any problems, please let us know at school and we will do our best to resolve any issues quickly.

When booking, you will have the option to choose from a) Teatime Club with a snack at £7.00 a session, or ii) Teatime Club without a snack at £6.50 a session.

Breakfast Club will continue to run from 07:30 to 08:35. 

Teatime Club will run from the end of school to 18:00.  If you arrive late for pick-up, a fee will be applied to your MCAS account.

You can cancel your wraparound care places on the day, should you need to, and your money will be refunded to your MCAS account.  If you have booked a session and then know your child will not attend, for example, because of illness, please cancel your session so that another child may be allocated the place.

Due to staff ratios, we will need to limit sessions to 50 children per session.  If you are unable to book on, it is because the session is already full.

This information is also on our website for ease of reference.

For wraparound care bookings for the remainder of this school year, please keep using our current system.

4. HOLIDAY CHILDCARE/CLUB DISCOUNT

Discovery Sports will be running full day childcare sessions at Tower Road Academy throughout the summer holidays.  Children that go to Tower Road get a 10% discount. Click on the link in the attached pdf to claim your discount!

5. CLUBS

After school clubs have finished for this academic year. Teatime Club is still running.

6. CLUBS – TENNIS, FOOTBALL AND CHEER/DANCE

Please find attached information about a summer holiday sessions at Boston Tennis Club, Boston United and The Cheer and Dance House.

7. BOSTON SMILE DENTIST

Boston Smile dentists have FREE dental care appointments for children.  Please see the attached leaflet.

8. ATTENDANCE WINNERS!

Mrs Sewell’s class won the week with 100% in Key Stage 1 this week, and Miss Czerwinska’s class won in Key Stage 2.

In assembly today, all the weekly winners from this term were put in a jar and a winner was pulled out to receive the attendance bouncy castle afternoon this Thursday.

And the winners of the bouncy castle on Thursday are…Miss Hayes class (Y1) and Miss Dodd’s class (Y5). WELL DONE!

9. BOOKS COMING HOME

From Thursday 18 July, children may bring a carrier bag into school to start bringing some of their exercise books home.

Enjoy a wonderfully sunny weekend!

Regards,

Mrs Smith
Headteacher