We are working hard to respond appropriately to all advice being given about Coronavirus. This advice is being reviewed on a daily basis and if anything changes we will let you know as soon as possible.

If your child is experiencing sore hands due to increased hand washing, please send them to school with suitable unmedicated hand cream (they must be able to apply it themselves).

In the current climate, if your child develops a temperature or other symptoms, we would encourage you to contact the NHS 111 helpline and follow their advice prior to coming to school.

As you are aware, today is World Book Day, to celebrate we have decided to join in with World Book Day’s mission to share a million stories throughout this month.  Sharing a story is incredibly important, this could be done with parents, siblings, grandparents, friends – anyone who loves a good story time.

Today we will be sending home a letter and a reading record sheet.  Every time your child shares a story for ten minutes they need to tick off or colour in a step on their ladder.  Please keep the record and fill in for the next four weeks, you can then either return your record to school so we can add the story shares to our school total or keep it over the holidays to add even more story shares.

We will be keeping a record of all our story shares in school and entering our total each week onto the World Book Day website to be in with a chance of winning £1000 worth of books for school.

Happy World Book day and we hope you enjoy sharing some wonderful stories over the next four week (and beyond!)

We are looking forward to celebrating all things bookish on Thursday 5th March (although, every day is a book day here at school)! In a change from previous years, we are not asking children to dress up; we have noted the potential expense and stress that dress-up days can involve for parents and would much rather any spare pennies were spent on a new book rather than on an outfit!

So instead, we would like children to bring a potato that they have decorated as a book character! There will be a prize for the best potato in each class and an overall winner for EYFS/KS1 and KS2.

If you are stuck for ideas, get googling! There are loads of amazing ideas to inspire new potato decorators.

We can’t wait to see them all displayed in school on Thursday 5th.

In particular a message for Reception parents (who won’t be aware of our Christmas festivities).

Can your child please bring named party clothes in a bag to school on the morning of their party so they can get changed at lunchtime?

Christmas parties are as follows:

Rooms 7 & 8 – Tuesday 17 December PM

Rooms 2 & 6 – Wednesday 18 December PM

Room 3, 4 & 5 – Thursday 19 December PM

Please can I remind parents who transport their child/ren to and from school by car to only park in official parking areas along the roads.  We are getting reports from some understandably irate neighbours that parents are parking across their driveways obstructing the access to their property. This is totally unacceptable.  Our neighbours are already as understanding as they can be about the levels of traffic due to the school run and we do not wish to make life any more difficult for them.

Some further clarification on the new timetable starting next week.

• The school door will open at 8.45am (no change here)
• Registers are taken promptly at 9am (no change here)
• Lunchtime is now 12.30 – 1.30pm (half an hour later than previously)
• The school day will end at 3.15pm (no change here)

Mr Langford felt it was a good opportunity to remind parents to get their children to school for 8.45am as teachers have work set ready for them to complete whilst dinners etc are completed.

Although the majority of families arrive for 8.45am some arrive at 9am or later which means their child has already missed up to 15 mins of work and is often late for registration by the time they have hung up their coats or dawdled down the corridor.