Dear parents/carers,   We are over the moon to let you know that your child can stop isolating and return to school a day earlier than we originally told you.  This is due to updated confirmation from PHE, based on when symptoms started in the positive case in Y5.  Therefore your children need to isolate…

Dear parents and carers,   I sent some brief information out to you earlier today, in order to update you at the earliest opportunity.  As it was the weekend I was out with my family.  Now I am back at home with full IT access, I thought it would be useful to give you more…

HH Sports Coaching with coach Harry Hoggins is running a 3 week multi sports camp at King Edward Primary School for children aged 7 to 11.  Cost is £15 per session. Week commencing: Monday 19th July, Tuesday 20th July & Wednesday 21st July Monday 26th July, Tuesday 27th July & Wednesday 28th July Monday 2nd…

On Friday 18th June Year 5 will be watching ‘Alright Charlie’ as part of their Safe Relationships topic in RSE.  This is an important aspect of safeguarding our children our children, especially as they are online a lot more often.  If you have any questions, please get in touch with our Year 5 team (year5@kingedward.org).…

Dear parents and carers,   I am writing to you about school meals, as a result of some ongoing issues which we are experiencing.  A number of you have also contacted us to ask questions or to raise concerns, so I felt it was helpful to write to you all.   As a school we…

Dear parents and carers,   With just the rest of this half term left before the end of the school year we are obviously working hard thinking about and preparing for September.   A challenge to this preparation is that we do not yet know what revised guidance for schools may say after potential national…

Dear parents and carers,   It was a difficult few weeks before half term, with an increase of COVID cases in North Tyneside.  This resulted in a request for mass testing in Y2 by Public Health England and surge testing across North Tyneside.  A number of local schools closed to many year groups and one…

Dear parent / carer   Our very own Nigel is one year old today!     I am the first person to admit that I was sceptical about the idea of a school dog.  Having been afraid of dogs myself since I was little, I didn’t see how a dog could fit into our school community. …

Dear parent / carer Our school kitchen will be closed again tomorrow (Wednesday 26th May) due to a potential case of COVID among the kitchen staff. A packed lunch will be provided for all children eligible for Free School Meals (both universal and benefits related).  All other children must come to school with a packed…

Thank you to all our families who kindly contributed to our fundraising in memory of Frank, we managed to raise an amazing £2664.35 for Neuroblastoma UK. Please click on the link below to view a thank you letter from Neuroblastoma UK: Thank you letter from Neuroblastoma UK      

Dear parent / carer There is a significant increase in positive COVID cases in our area of North Tyneside.  This includes children who are asymptomatic.  Even if you are well, please consider accessing the LA surge testing this weekend as a precaution. This will help reduce further spread across North Tyneside. Please CLICK HERE to…

If you require out of school club at May half term, please book by Friday 21st May, if we do not receive enough bookings, we may need to cancel some sessions.  We have lots of fun activities planned, please click on the link: King Edward Out of School Club May Half Term Holiday Activity Programme 2021…

As part of Healthy Living Week we should encourage our children to travel actively to school each day by walking, cycling and scooting.  As well as helping to keep everyone healthier it will also make school safer for all our children’s by keeping cars away from the school gates and will reduce pollution around school…

Dear parent / carer   As you may already be aware, some national COVID restrictions are set to ease on Monday 17th May.  As a result, we are also able to change some of the rules we have in place as a school.  However, many restrictions remain in place for the moment in line with…

Dear parent /carer We are pleased to confirm that we are able to open OOSC for the May half term holidays.  We will be open Tuesday 1st June 2021 to Friday 4th June 2021.  If you would like to book a place, you can do so in the Gateway app up to five days in…

Dear parent / carer Bubble isolation and remote learning You will have received a text explaining that there has been a positive case of COVID in Year 2 and informing you that your child needs to isolate.  The text will have told you how long your child has to isolate for.  Your child MUST NOT…

Dear parent / carer The school photographer, Rose and Sons, is due to be in school on Monday 10th May 2021.  All children in school will have their individual school photo taken during the school day.  Children will not have sibling photos taken as we are unable to coordinate this under present COVID restrictions. All…

Healthy Living Week will be held the week beginning Monday 24th May, we are planning lots of fun activities and events for our children to enjoy which promote the importance to our health and well being of being active and having a healthy, balanced diet. As there are still social distancing restrictions sports day will have to be…

In less than 10 teaching weeks we will be saying goodbye to our Year 6 children, as they move on to the excitement of High School.  They have coped fantastically well as a year group with the many challenges that COVID has brought to them in their last two school years here.  Despite COVID constraints…

You will no doubt remember our little boy Frank from Reception class, who I wrote to you about recently.  I shared with you that we were going to be developing our outside spaces in memory of Frank and that we would do it all as a surprise for our children.  Frank absolutely olved being outside…

Catering Services are moving away from Joinos as the method of parents paying for school lunches.  From Monday 10th May 2021 they will be moving to Parentpay. North Tyneside Council’s school meals team will be contacting you soon by e-mail to ask you to set up a new ParentPay account for school meals when the…

Dear parents/carers,   It has been lovely to see all of our children return to school after their Easter holidays, for what we very much hope will be a positive term of happiness and sunshine for us all!  It can only be a positive for all of us that COVID restriction changes and vaccine rollout…

Dear parent / carer   As you know, swimming lessons in school have been disrupted both this and last academic year due to COVID, affecting two year groups.  We have just been informed that swimming sessions can resume shortly in a phased approach.  Whilst most schools are not offering this until September onwards, we are…

The Holiday Activity Fund is a national offer for children and young people to provide enriching experiences and food outside of term time.  As part of the Holiday Activity and Food Programme (HAF),  North Tyneside Council has received funding from the Department for Education to deliver a summer activity programme and we would like to…

As you are aware the government have released funding to support parents of children eligible for benefits related Free School Meals (FSM) with the purchase of school uniform.  We are pleased to update you and to let you know that the supermarket gift cards have now arrived in school.  We will be sending them home…

As you will remember the COVID Winter Grant was given to all families who are in receipt of benefit related free school meals to purchase food during the school holidays.  The £60 payment for this financial year covered Christmas, February half term and the first week of Easter holidays.  We have now been informed by…

Dear Parents / Carers   RE: NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay safe. online programme   I am pleased to tell you that this term we will be participating in the NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay safe. online programme.  This consists of an online assembly and supporting classroom based activities.  Speak out. Stay safe.  is a safeguarding programme…

Dear Parents / Carers,   As you know we have been celebrating children’s birthdays in school this academic year as we are conscious that many of our children have missed out on their usual birthday celebrations.  Next week we will be hosting small parties in bubbles to celebrate all of the birthdays that have been…

Dear parent /carer   OOSC is planning to be open during the Easter holidays; Monday 29th March to Friday 9th April (closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday).     Uptake is currently very low.  If numbers do not increase, we will have no choice but to close during the holidays.  If you would like your…

Dear parent / carer   As different types of testing are now available to the public, we thought it would be helpful to clarify which type of test to take in which situation.  We ask that all parents / carers read the below information carefully.   PCR Test (Polymerase Chain Reaction Test) – This is…

Dear parents and carers,   Following the decision made at our Staffing and Finance committee last week about Friday afternoon childcare, I have had some feedback and some questions.  I thought it would be useful to share some information with you all.   The reason for children going home at lunchtime on a Friday COVID…

Dear parent / carer   Red Nose Day is back on Friday 19th March and this year it’s never felt more important to have some fun and support people living incredibly tough lives.  We need the power of funny to turn laughs into lasting change!   Red Nose Day is part of the charity, Comic…

Dear parent / carer   As you know, our timetabled teaching week has been organised differently since September 2020.  While the change was necessitated by COVID restrictions, it has had a myriad of benefits for our school and children as communicated to families back in July.     This organisational change involved changes to the start…