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Medicines

Absence from school

School's achievements

School Routines

Vouchers

Parent Helpers

Parking

Holidays

Library cover and opening hours.

Foundation Stage

Jewellery

Sickness and toileting accidents

Voluntary Contributions

Serious Allergies and Foods

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Medicines

We are only able to give children medicines, creams, etc., prescribed by the doctor. If you wish us to administer medicine at any particular time you need to complete a consent form from the office. Children are not allowed to bring cough pastilles, throat sweets or lip salve into school. Back to top

Absence from school

If your child is sick please could you ring the school office on their first day of absence to inform the school why your child is not attending. When your child returns to school the class teacher will need a letter explaining the absence for the school register. This is a County requirement. In order to ensure the safety of the children our Office Staff will have to ring parents / carers if we are not notified on the first morning of any absence. This wastes valuable office time. Back to top

School's achievements

We are the first Primary School in England to be assessed for 'The Challenge Award', which focuses on providing teaching, learning and curriculum opportunities for the Able, Gifted and Talented children. Back to top

School Routines

The bell will be rung in the back playground at 8.55am. Please ensure your child is ready to join the class line at this time. To ensure the required teaching hours for Key Stage One are completed we need to start lessons promptly at 9.05am and lessons will finish at 3.00pm. Classes will then be taken to the back playground by 3.05pm. Nobody is allowed to bring cars into the front car park without prior permission. This includes taxis. Back to top

Vouchers

We are always grateful for the various voucher schemes that take place and would be grateful for any vouchers you receive from the various stores. These help us to update a variety of items from sports equipment to ICT and are of great value to ensure we are constantly reviewing and improving the facilities we have in school. Back to top

Parent Helpers

We are always very grateful to the parents, grandparents and Bedgrove Residents who offer to help and support the teachers during the school days. With the many changes that have taken place in teaching the school curriculum, we would like to encourage anyone who is willing to help in school to attend a Workshop. These are arranged at various times throughout the Year. Please ask at the Office for details. A Crèche will be provided for young children. All helpers will be asked to complete a CRB check and will be given a booklet about school procedures. Back to top

Parking

Please can I remind you to consider our local residents when parking. This involves the slip road off Ingram Avenue, on corners or across driveways either in Ingram Avenue or in the Bedgrove Pavilion area. This also creates a safety problem for the children walking to school. The school has been contacted on several occasions by neighbours expressing concern about young children being left unattended in cars. Please be aware of the risks and dangers this involves. Please do not allow children to ride bicycles or scooters in the playground. Back to top

Holidays

Please can I ask you, whenever possible, not to take holidays during the school term. If a child has more than 10 days holiday during the academic year these days count as unauthorised absences. These are logged onto your child's report and will become part of school statistics. If you wish to take your child out of school for a holiday please could you complete a Leave of Absence Form which can be obtained from the Office. If your child is in Year 2 it is very important that no holiday is taken in May. Back to top

Library cover and opening hours.

We would like to continue our practice of opening the Library from 3.00pm - 3.30pm for children to change their books. Any parents who would be willing to manage the Library during this time on any day please let Mrs Vicky Milnes, or the Office, know.

Children must be accompanied by an adult. Due to limited space pushchairs will not be allowed in the library. I am sure you will ensure your children treat the resources with care. Thank you very much to all of the parents who have volunteered to help in this way. Back to top

Foundation Stage

We will continue to ensure continuity of teaching within this important first year of your childs schooling. Please be aware they will find a full day tiring and if you have any concerns please do inform the class teacher. If you can write notes in the home - school blue diary booklets it is much easier than trying to speak to the staff in the playground. As you can imagine it can be difficult to remember important details when you are dealing with 30 children who want to talk to you and potentially 30 parents as well. Many thanks for your understanding.

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Jewellery

Jewellery is not to be worn in school, with the exception of stud earrings in the ears. Jewellery is easily lost or damaged and it is a potential source of danger in PE lessons and in the playground. Earrings need to be taken out on PE days or parents can provide micropore tape for the children to put over their ears.

No responsibility can be accepted for any loss or damage to such items, including watches, brought into school. Back to top

Sickness and toileting accidents

Please notify the School if you do not wish staff to deal with changing your child after a sickness or toileting accident. Back to top

Voluntary Contributions

As you are very aware, schools are always struggling to make their allocated budgets balance at the end of the year and we rely heavily on parental support. With our age group of children we find it easier to supply all consumables that children may use in class, such as pencils, crayons, felt tips, glue, whiteboards etc rather than ask children to provide their own for no additional charge as in other schools. (This costs the school at least £15 per child). Each child is also provided with a water bottle which costs the school £1.50 per bottle. As you are also aware, each term our children have first hand experience of theatre groups, story tellers, workshops etc (£800 plus per term).
We would not wish to curtail our provision for the children in any way and would be very grateful if you could help us by returning any slips and monies for the various events in an envelope so that it does not get lost. Back to top

Serious Allergies and Foods

There are a number of children within the school with Nut Allergies. As this is a very serious condition would you please ensure that you avoid sending foods in your child's lunch box containing peanuts, peanut butter, other nuts or products that contain nuts. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter. Back to top

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It is with great sadness that we need to inform you of the death of Mrs "Jeff"  Ault. Mrs Ault has been involved in the school for over 25 years in every conceivable support role and always took a lively, active part in everything she turned her hand to. She was an invaluable help to teaching staff as she organised, created resources for and tidied up after us - always with a cheerful smile! She counted vouchers by their thousands without being asked. She always saw what needed to be done and did it and those of us who have been here for some years remember her with true gratitude, love and respect. Her involvement in lunchtime play activities with the children was a sight to behold! We would send our deepest sympathies to her family at this time.

 

 It was also sad to hear of the decision by Mr Shah to retire after over 25 years service to our school within the Governing body. He will always be remembered with gratitude for his positive, friendly attitude and the respect he showed to all staff. We are pleased that he will not be leaving us completely and we look forward to seeing him around school. We wish him every happiness for the future and would like to say a very heartfelt thank you for all of his commitment to us in the past years.

 

 

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