Thank you to our incredible school catering team
A huge thank you to our amazing Catering team who work hard each day to cook, prepare and serve our school meals to a high standard 🤩
To find out if you are eligible for free school meals, visit: https://bit.ly/41SqJ8t
School meals are tasty, nutritious, sustainable and delicious
Our school meals are cooked on site and freshly prepared using high quality ingredients.
Why not encourage your child to try the meat free option to help save our planet 🌎
To find out more, visit: https://bit.ly/41SqJ8t
Free school meals - are you entitled?
In January 2024, 8,435 pupils entitled to a free school meal missed out on a free hot, nutritious lunch.
Children are in school for 190 days every year, so think of the savings you could make by making sure they are signed up.
Contact the school office to find out if you’re entitled to free school meals or apply online by visiting: https://bit.ly/41SqJ8t
Our weekly message: Friday 10 January 2025
A belated happy new year to you all.
What a tricky start to the new term! Despite this, children came back to school on Tuesday cool, calm and collected, all ready for lots more learning! Thank you again for your understanding and support when we had to make the difficult decision to close on Monday.
New year, new contact details?
Let’s start with a short request: If you’ve got any new contact details for you or other contacts, please remember to let us know. We need up-to-date details for the people on our lists in case of emergencies. (The people on our lists are the ones you gave us when your child started school – in most cases, we should have details for three different people.)
Attendance matters
Our school attendance in the Autumn term was 95.9%. This is a really good figure:
- it’s higher than for the same term last year (95.3%)
- we rank 57 out of 223 Leeds schools
- we’re in second highest band of schools nationally (decile 2: the top 10-20% of schools)
Thank you for continuing to make sure your child gets to school as much as possible.
In particular, a big thank you and well done to Class 3,4C (Mrs Wadsworth’s class) – their attendance is an amazing 97.2%! Also well done to Class 3,4A (96.9%). Class 5,6A, Class 5,6B and Class 2C all come a close third.
As always, if you’re unsure, please check the NHS app: Is my child too ill for school?
Money matters
This time of year can be difficult for many families dealing with additional costs and pressure on their household budgets. The Money Information Centre offers access to free, confidential, and impartial help and advice on a range of money-related matters, with a range of useful information about employment support, energy, fuel and food support and the healthy holidays programme.
Watch Us While We Work: you said, we listened
Our Watch Us While We Work and Topic Review sessions are really popular – lots of you attend these. However, some parents have told us being able to visit just one class is frustrating. We’ve listened.
The next Watch Us While We Work session is coming up – it’s first thing on Thursday 23 January.
This time, we’ve asked teachers to plan for two parts within the half hour session. This means after the first 10-15 minutes or so, you’ll get a chance to switch classrooms without disrupting the learning going on.
We realise this doesn’t help if you’d prefer to visit three classes or more because you’ve more children, but we think these 10-15 minutes parts are as short as they can be while making sure you still get the most out of them.
Enjoy your weekend – stay warm!
Bad back anyone?
We did it!
Thanks to some very energetic, strong, hardworking and possibly slightly mad parents, Grandparents and carers, we managed to clear some paths in our playground.
Fluffy snow? No
Rock solid ice? Yes
It was backbreaking work but we managed it.
Thank you so much to those of you who came to help. It was so nice to see our school community come together to help out. You never let us down!
Weather update for Wednesday 08 January
Just like today, we aim to open as normal tomorrow.
Registers will be open for longer. Your child won’t be marked in as late if they arrive later than usual.
This is to make sure you can get to school safely despite the freezing weather.
Weather update (Tuesday 07 January)
We’re open today (Tuesday 07 January).
Registers are open for longer so your child won’t be marked in as late if they arrive later than usual.
Please travel safely.
Snowy weather: update for Tuesday
We’re happy to confirm school will be open tomorrow as normal (assuming there’s not a drastic change in the weather conditions!).
When we’re faced with the question of whether to open or close, we have to factor in travel conditions for families and for staff (some of whom live quite far away); the availability of site staff to clear paths and make them safe; the condition of the rooms (and whether there have been leaks caused by snow, as was the case today)…
Thank you for your understanding today.
Snowy weather: school is closed
School is closed today.
The weather situation hasn’t improved enough overnight so we’ve taken the decision to close school today.
This is due to current unsafe travel conditions and the safety of roads and paths.
We also need to assess the situation at school due to a number of leaks.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
Snowy weather
The weather conditions at the moment mean that any sort of travel is tricky. However, the forecast is an improving one. As it stands right now, please expect that that school will be open tomorrow. We’ll keep the registers open for longer so you can travel safely.
We’ll keep you updated online if there’s any further updates.
Finally… Happy new year! We hope you enjoyed a lovely break.