All school news articles are located below.
For the continued safety of our children, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce our new cashless catering system, Biostore, which will be active from Thursday 3rd September. The school will now become a cashless area and we ask that you do not send cash into school. This will help to keep our children and staff as safe as possible and avoid potential contamination from handling cash.
During the next academic year, we would like to continue focusing on the well-being of our pupils and we want to ensure that they have the best fuel inside their bodies to help them learn. As we know from research undertaken by the School Food Trust, eating healthily can positively affect children’s behaviour in the classroom. As a school, it is part of our responsibility to help children learn how to eat healthily. We want to ensure that what the children eat at break times in particular is categorised as a healthy snack.
The Department for Education has passed emergency regulations that introduce flexibility in the way that appeals are held, given the current social distancing measures in place. They have also amended some of the deadlines surrounding the timescales. The Appeals Team within the Local Authority as well as every admission authority in the county that makes arrangements for independent appeals to be heard, will be investigating ways of dealing with appeals using written representations, as well as bringing panels together via telephone or other means. Please see below the information in relation to appeals and how to appeal for different types of schools
Dear Parents/Guardians,
You will understandably be concerned about the current situation regarding the spread of COVID-19. We are following all advice from the government and remain open as usual. Currently, we do not have any students or staff who have confirmed cases of the virus, however some are self-isolating following advice from NHS 111 or due to underlying health conditions.
Dear Parents and Carers,
Due to the current risk of Covid-19 and current Government and Department of Health guidelines, we have taken the difficult decision to cancel our Afterschool Club facilities after Friday 20th March until further notice.
It was wonderful to see so many parents attend our SATS information evening on Wednesday evening. As promised, the presentation that was used has been attached to website for you to refer back to and for those who were unable to attend.
Many thanks, Mr Cheuk
On Wednesday 4th March, Mrs Woodward took our Year 8 pupils to the Worcestershire Skills Show at the Chateau Impney.
On Friday 28th February we had out first Wellbieng Enrichment Day. The day included the whole school partaking in Yoga. Chair Yoga, different Mental health workshops and producing their own Zentangle!
The long build up to Easter is called Lent. The day before Lent begins is called Shrove Tuesday. 'Shrove' means being forgiven for wrong-doings. It happens on a different date each year depending on when Easter is. This year Shrove Tuesday was on 25th February.
In order to support pupils on their learning journey at home, and in preparation for the National Curriculum Assessments in May this year, we are in the fortunate position to be able to offer the CGP KS2 English SATs Revision Book and Question Book for £5.00, which is significantly cheaper than the RRP.
There will be lots in this newsletter celebrating the achievements of the pupils and school in many areas. It is important to recognise and celebrate those achievements.
