Parents of prospective pupils currently in Year 6 are invited to join them online on Tuesday 22nd September 2020 from 5.30pm. Please click on the link: John Spence Open Evening Information Flyer for more information.

Dear parents and carers, I have been in touch with the Health Protection Team at Public Health England (PHE) as earlier today we have had confirmation that a child has tested positive for COVID-19.   We have a rigorous system of controls in place in school, including operating in ‘bubbles’, enhanced hygiene and reorganised classrooms.  We…

Dear parent / carer We have reviewed lunch arrangements for Year 3 following their first week back in school.   From this week, all children in Year 3 will have their lunch in school on a Friday.  This includes children who are not staying in school for the afternoon childcare.  This is because children still have…

Dear parent / carer As you know, we are unable to sell uniform in the usual way due to Covid restrictions.   We will be holding a uniform sale every Monday from 4.00-5.00pm beginning Monday 14th September.  Uniform will be sold from the main office.  Parents should queue outside, observing social distancing from other families and…

Dear parents and carers,   I just wanted to catch up with you at the end of our first week back, to let you know how things have gone.   It has been wonderful to have all of our children back!  They have settled in straight away across school and it has been a real…

Dear parent / carer Thank you to everyone who has bought and paid for their PE joggers using the Gateway app.  Many of these have been distributed to children this week to take home.  Unfortunately we have not been able to fill all orders as our supplier is unable to get additional stock to us…

If your child attends morning Nursery only Your child will arrive at the Reception entrance between 8:45am and 9:00am. They will have lunch in school and will be collected from the pedestrian gate on Preston Avenue. Mr Denton’s class will be collected at 12:15pm and Mrs Armstrong’s class at 12:20pm. If your child attends afternoon…

Please click here to see which days your child will be doing PE from Monday 7th September.

Dear parent/carer  We are moving to an electronic way of recording any accidents and first aid in school.  This means that we will no longer send a paper first aid slip home with your child.   If your child has a minor accident in school requiring some small amount of first aid such (e.g. Grazed knee…

Dear parent / carer As you know, we now have a lovely school dog, Nigel! Please could you complete this form to let us know if your child has an allergy to dogs. Thank you

Due to the current prevalence of Covid 19, school has to organise a number of things differently to usual.  Much of these things are as a result of non-negotiable Government guidance.  By sending your child to school, you are agreeing to follow all procedures implemented by school.  In return, we will follow the Government guidelines…

Dear parent / carer Please click here to read a letter from North Tyneside Council regarding safe travel to and from school. Thank you

Dear parent / carer Booking for OOSC is now open in the School Gatway app.  If you would like your child to attend the club in the first week of term, please book by 9.00am on Tuesday 1st September.  After the first week, you must always book at least five days in advance.  If you…

Dear Parents / Carers,    We hope that you have had an enjoyable summer and we are looking forward to seeing you all next week as you join us in Reception class. We thought that we’d share a reminder of your child’s start date and arrangements for how and when the children will come into…

Dear parent / carer As you know, school jogging bottoms are a compulsory item of PE uniform from Monday 7th September.  From this date, children should come to school in their full PE kit on their PE days.  Joggers should be worn over shorts and school jumpers over PE t-shirts. School joggers are navy blue…

Exciting news……! Last week Nigel joined me and my boys at home.  He has settled straight in!  Despite stories warning me of how badly he’d sleep, that it would be a nightmare training him to go to the toilet-he has been a little dream puppy.   Nigel was born at the end of May.  He…

Dear parent / carer   Please click here to see our term dates for 2021-22 as agreed by governors.       I would like to bring your attention to two variations from North Tyneside Council’s (NTC) published term dates.  You can access NTC’s term dates by clicking here for your information.     Our school term…

Dear parent / carer   Following the information sent to parents last week, I would like to share with you further details of arrangements for Friday afternoons.     As you know, school will close to all children on a Friday afternoon, with the timetabled teaching week ending at lunchtime.  The changes to our school day…

From Monday 7th September, children will need to come into school in their school PE kit on their PE days.  This is for health and safety reasons. Therefore we are school jogging bottoms as a compulsory item of clothing for Y1-Y6.  This is because for much of the year all day in shorts would not…

Dear parents/carers, I am writing to you with some details about the changes we need to make in September, as a result of COVID 19.   The plans are complicated as a result of the DfE guidance, the size of our school community and the vast size of our site.  Sadly, the DfE guidance is clear…

Dear parent / carer We are aware that a small number of parents may have been unable to come in and purchase uniform on their designated day this week.  We will be holding another uniform sale on Thursday 27th August.  Parent can come to the school office between 9.00am and 12.00pm.  This is open to…

Some of you may be aware that Miss Osueke has a chronic health condition.  She is happy for me to share this for those of you who don’t.  How she copes and manages is inspirational.  COVID resulted in Miss Osueke needing to shield for many months.  All children are returning to site in September and…

Please click on the link below to view a letter from Jacqui Old, Director of Children’s and Adult Services – North Tyneside Council: Letter from Jacqui Old, Director of Children’s & Adult Services – North Tyneside Council  

Following a planning meeting this morning, we are excited to be able to tell you that OOSC will be opening on Wednesday 2nd September! The organisation of OOSC is going to have to be different, in order to comply with the DfE guidance for schools.  But we are confident that we have some ways to…

Dear parents/carers,   As you may know, schools finally received some guidance about September, at the end of last week.  We are now working through the guidance and making decisions about what it will mean for our school and how we will operate in September.  Things will need to be organised very differently in order…

We have been inundated in the last week with contact from parents/carers, asking if they can send things in as a thank you to staff for the end of the school year, as many of you kindly usually do.  So due to the number of requests, rather than replying to each request individually, I thought…

Hello everybody, We are really looking forward to seeing you all in Reception. Despite the challenging circumstances, we are doing all that we can to make you feel as prepared and as ready as possible for the next academic year and we’re looking forward to all the things that we have planned. Unfortunately, we aren’t…

Dear parent / carer There may be some belongings left in school that you wish to collect such as coats and PE bags.  Belongings will be collected from around site by staff and labeled where at all possible.  We will then make all items available for you to collect from the KS1 yard week commencing…

  Dear parent / carer In preparation for next academic year, we will be selling uniform in the week commencing the 13th July.  To adhere to social distancing guidelines and keep our families and staff safe, we will be organising the sale a little differently to usual.   Please read the following information carefully if you…

I am over the moon that almost all Year 5 children are going to return to site next week!  I expected there to be high demand, which was why I had to offer Monday/Tuesday or Thursday/Friday for each group.  The classrooms will be cleaned in between for the next group.  We just don’t have any…

Following on from the information this morning, I can now confirm which teachers will take each class for September for Years 1-6.   Current teacher/class                                          Teacher from September (pending all staff being able to return…

Staffing for next school year   As you already know, we do not know what school will look like in September.  It is too soon to know and we will need to be led to some degree, by what the Government and COVID 19 dictates.  We have some initial contingency plans for what school could…

Dear parents/carers,   As you know your children are leaving us at the end of the term, to move on to High School.  Whilst we know that things will not be the same as they would have been, it is very important to us that we mark this significant event with you, in the best…