On the first morning of your child's illness you should call the school before 9.30am and leave a message on the voicemail box under option 1. If your child is absent for more than three days then you should remain in contact with the school, giving regular updates, so that parent and teachers can work together to ensure the best possible provision for the child. 

If your child vomits or has diarrhoea then they must not return to school for 48 hours after the last episode.

A list of other common childhood illnesses and the exclusion periods can be found at the bottom of this page,

In line with our Policy for Supporting Children at School with Medical Needs, where clinically possible, medicines should be prescribed in dose frequencies which enable them to be taken outside school hours. Where this is not possible we may agree to administer medicine to children only if

· It would be detrimental to the child’s health or school attendance not to do so

· a permission form has been completed by the parent (download below) and

· the medicine is in date, in the original packaging (including the patient information leaflet) and for prescription medication has a pharmacy label in the name of the child.

If the medication is for a long term health issue then you will also be asked to complete a Healthcare Plan in conjunction with the school. 

Our school lunches are provided by The Kids Lunch Company. 

We do operate a uniform policy and all children are expected to wear the correct uniform every day. Please remember that children are identifiable by their uniform and that behaviour outside school in uniform should be as expected in school.

The full details of uniform and where to buy it can be found on the Uniform page

The gates to school open at around 8.30am and the doors open 8.45-8.55am each morning. Morning registration is at 8.55am. Children in Reception enter through the gate from the Reception playground into their covered area, children in Year 1 enter through the main entrance of the school and children in Year 2 enter through the gate next to Teatimers from the school carpark.

The school day ends at 3.15pm when Reception children are brought to the Reception playground and children in Year 1 & 2 to the front of school.

Wrap-around care is provided for children at our school by Teatimers and more information can be found on their website or on the Wrap-Around Care page.

There are 2 types of clubs available running at lunchtimes and before and after school:

Free clubs provided by school staff

We offer a range of extracurricular clubs for our pupils either before school, during lunchtime or after school. Many are run by external companies and for these there will be a charge, others are run by school staff and are free of charge. 

Clubs from outside providers

For clubs run by external suppliers, you should contact them in the first instance to register your child or for further information.

Full details of current clubs and timetables can be found on the Clubs & Activities page.

The school greatly values the contribution which parents can make by supporting activities at home and this can have a really positive impact on the overall development of the child. Home learning is seen as a key link between home.

All pupils

• Daily reading
• Daily practising of keywords that are linked to their reading
• Termly specific science-based home learning tasks set by the science lead
• Half-termly home learning activity based on the school values set by the Headteacher

Additionally, for Year 2 pupils

• Practise set spellings each week.

Optional tasks 

For those families who want to do additional home learning with their children, teachers provide optional tasks each week which are linked to the current in-school curriculum. These involve consolidation or widening of current learning and include a task which relates to each of the following:

• Maths
• English
• Wider curriculum

We use 2 platforms - Google Classrooms and the school website

Google Classrooms

All home learning is posted on Google Classrooms. This includes the Year 2 spellings, the values home learning, science activities and all the optional items.

School Website

The website hosts the class home pages, the school newsletters, bookings for parent consultations, and is used for the vast majority of our emails/communications.

The Class Home Pages outline the curriculum for each half-term, the class' timetable and have presentations from the curriculum sessions and the Meet the Teacher. There are also links here to other platforms that parents can use should they wish to use them. These pages are updated every half-term. 

All parents are given logins to the school website and Google Classrooms when their child(ren) joins the school.

There are parent consultations held in the autumn and spring terms. Details of how to book these consultations are sent out in the newsletter.

If you have a concern, you can use your child’s yellow reading record to write short notes to your child’s teacher. You can also request a meeting with your child’s teacher by phoning or emailing the school office.

Curriculum evenings are held regularly to cover what and how it's taught in school and how you can support your child. Specific details will be given out when these are running. Presentations from previous sessions can be found on the Parent Presentations page.

Mums, dads, grandparents and carers are all very welcome in school as helpers. At present, we have parents working on a variety of activities, including listening to children read, mounting and displaying work and helping with sewing and craft activities… the possibilities are endless. The school operates a policy whereby parents need to attend a short training session before helping out in class. We will not ask for parent helpers until after the first half-term in the autumn.

We also often need helpers for one-off events such as school trips, special activities in school and short-term projects. Requests for help may be in the weekly newsletter, trip letters or specific requests sent by email. You do not need to have attended our parent training sessions to help out at an ad hoc event.