Children throughout the school have been actively engaging with Anti-Bullying Week.  This national initiative aims to raise awareness of bullying and highlight ways of preventing and responding to it.  The week started with Odd Socks Day - adults and children wore odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.  Since the launch, children have engaged in a variety of learning opportunities including PSHE lessons, themed assemblies, poetry and poster writing.

We are aware that some families are allowing their children to use SNAPCHAT.  This is a 13+ photo- and video-sharing app which also allows users to chat with friends via text or audio.  We strongly urge parents/carers to follow the link below and find out more about SNAPCHAT from nationalonlinesafety.com.  As well as sharing information about how SNAPCHAT can be made safer for children, it contains important information about difficulties associated with it:

Contacting strangers 

Excessive use

Inappropriate content

Sexting

Damage to confidence

Visible location

Thank you to the School Council for organising our pyjama day to raise money for Children in Need.  We are delighted to let you know that we made £450.22.

Dear families,

We will be taking bookings for Earlies & Lates Spring Term 2023 from 7pm on Wednesday 16th November. 

• Bookings will be on a first come first serve basis and places are limited.
• Please only book the dates required. Regular non-attendance will result in future bookings being cancelled.
• The booking form will close at 8 am on Thursday 23rd November - no late bookings will be accepted.
• Parent Pay account must always be in credit. Arrears on the account will result in future booking being cancelled.
• Earlies are £3 per session and start 8am.
• Lates are £7.50 per session and finish at 5.30pm.
• Confirmation of places and terms and conditions will be sent from the 30th November via text message
• Terms and conditions MUST be signed and returned by the 7th December to secure your booking

A link to the booking form will be sent to all families via text, the App and email at 7pm on Wednesday 16th November - keep an eye out!

Kind regards,


Sara Byrne
School Business Manager

This winter holiday period, Gloucestershire County Council are providing vouchers to eligible families who have signed up to our Holiday Free School Meals (FSM) scheme. These vouchers are provided by Gloucestershire County Council as part of our commitment to 'no child goes hungry'. The vouchers are funded through grant funding we have received and they are separate to that of term time free school meals.

The scheme is for children in reception to year 11 who receive benefits-related free school meals and attend a school in Gloucestershire. We are unable to consider college and sixth form students, as well as children who receive infant free school meals (available to all children from reception to year 2), as they are not eligible for this scheme.

Families who have signed up to the scheme will receive £15 per child, per week for the holiday period. We will be distributing  2 weeks of vouchers for the winter holiday period.

To find out more about the scheme and to apply, parents can visit our Holiday free school meal vouchers webpage<https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/education-and-learning/school-transport-and-free-school-meals/meals-during-school-holidays/holiday-free-school-meal-vouchers/holiday-free-school-meal-vouchers/#main>, seen below:

https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/education-and-learning/school-transport-and-free-school-meals/meals-during-school-holidays/holiday-free-school-meal-vouchers/holiday-free-school-meal-vouchers/#main

Parents who have signed up previously do not need to re-register, they will already have been included. To ensure we reach all those who are eligible, we are encouraging parents that have not previously signed up, to sign up as soon as they can.

For any parents wishing to update details of an existing application, please ask them to email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>  so we can update their account, as this not an automatic process.

Applications for Holiday Free School Meal vouchers for the winter holiday period are now open until the 6 December. Voucher emails will be sent out on 13 December.  Please encourage parents to check their junk/spam email folders during this period as sometimes the vouchers end up there. If parents have not received their vouchers by the 14 December please encourage them to email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

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