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…

Dear parents/carers,   I thought it would be helpful to write with some updates.  So much has changed since we were all physically together as a school community.  It saddens me enormously that it is 3 months today that I made the difficult decision to send children home.  It saddens me further to think that…

Dear parents and carers,   I am over the moon to say that reopening our school site to Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 has gone extremely smoothly.  It has been wonderful to see so many of our children back in school.   As it has gone so smoothly, I am writing to offer Year 5…

Dear parents/carers,   I am writing to update you about a decision which has been made, in our Governing Body Committee meeting on Friday.  As you will know, we have been providing key worker childcare since Monday 23rd March.  At the same time, our staff have been providing remote learning and now, in addition, around…

Ant and Dec have teamed up with the NSPCC to do a Stay Safe Speak Out Assembly, please click on the link below. NSPCC Virtual Assembly with Ant and Dec

Update As you can imagine, we have been incredibly busy making sure that the necessary detailed plans are in place for more children and staff to return on-site from Monday.   Reception and Year 6 return on Monday 8th June Year 1 return on Wednesday 10th June   ONLY CHILDREN WHO BOOKED A PLACE CAN…

Since our childcare was initially set up, a range of guidance and information has been coming into schools for us to work through.    Last week we organised our returning R, Y1 and Y6 children into ‘bubbles’. This means that when these children return to being on-site, they will always be with the same small…

Dear parents and carers,   I thought I’d give you a brief update about the possibility of schools beginning to welcome children back on-site.  Since the announcement was made asking schools to begin to plan, we have been very busy.  I have been working through lengthy and ever-changing detailed guidance and contacting parents of children…

Hello! With half term just around the corner, we would like to share a potential activity document produced by the North Tyneside PE team which you may choose to use next week. We thought that it would be particularly relevant as we would ordinarily be enjoying Healthy Living Week at this time of year. There…