Scroll below to explore our day-to-day information, useful for parents and carers, including:
SCHOOL CALENDAR | TERM DATES | CLUBS & OUT OF HOURS | E-SAFETY | HOME LEARNING SUPPORT | LATE & ABSENCE PROCEDURE | LUNCH MENUS | OPENING TIMES | PAYMENTS | SCHOOL CAR PARK | SCHOOL UNIFORM | USEFUL INFORMATION
Calendar:
Term Dates:
2024-2025
INSET DAY - 2nd September 2024
Return to school - 3rd September 2024
Autumn Half Term - 28th October - 1st November 2024
Christmas Break - 23rd December - 3rd January 2025
Return to school - 6th January 2025
Spring Half Term - 17th - 21st February 2025
Easter Break - 7th - 21st April 2025
Return to school - 22nd April 2025
INSET DAY - 16th May 2025
Summer Half Term - 26th May – 30th May 2025
INSET DAY - 4th July 2025
Last Day of school - 18th July 2025
INSET DAYS - 21st - 22nd July 2025
Bank Holidays
Good Friday - 18th April 2025
Easter Monday - 21st April 2025
Early May Bank Holiday - 5th May 2025
Spring Bank Holiday - 26th May 2025
After & Before School Care:
Earlybirds
Parents will need to book for their chosen days, a week in advance, in order to secure a place. No last minute places are available.
The prices per session are: 7.45am (£1.50) or 8.00am (£1.00).
Nightingales
Parents will need to book for their chosen days, a week in advance, in order to secure a place. No last minute places are available.
The prices per session are: 3.15-4.15pm (£3.50) | 3.15-5.00pm (£5.00) | 4.15-5pm (£1.50).
Parents will need to collect their children from the main school reception.
After School Clubs & Activities:
Monday:
Multisports (Year 1-6)
Tuesday:
Dance (Year 1-6)
Choir (Year 1-6)
Wednesday:
Gym & Football (Year 1-6)
Thursday:
Basketball (KS2)
Gardening club (Year 1-6)
Showcase Peri Instrument lessons - Thursdays
E-Safety:
This information is provided for parents and carers.
Keeping your children safe online is really important. It is vital parents and carers share in spreading awareness across our community as to the risks posed by using the internet. Below are some useful links for parents and carers.
Useful Links:
National Online Safety Guides for Parents - These resources are easy to understand and provide advice on a wide range of programmes, websites and games.
CEOP - The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command
Reporting Concerns - CEOP is a law enforcement agency and is here to keep children and young people safe from sexual exploitation and abuse.
Guidance for Children - Click the link to visit our Pupils page where we provide further information for our young people.
BROADBAND PARENTAL CONTROLS:
How to Control Internet Access at Home
Your child's safety online is as important as their offline safety. In this guide, learn all about broadband parental controls and how to make sure they are protected
Home Learning:
Partnership Learning Platform
The Partnership Learning Platform originally began as our rapid response to Covid-19 school closures. It has evolved into a full scheme of lessons, with high quality resources to ensure that any child at home can access a broad and balanced curriculum. For each year group there are differentiated learning resources for every day of the week. If our children are required to isolate at home, or if the school is required to close, you will find everything you need via the learning platform ready for remote learning.
Click Here to enter the Partnership Learning Platform.
Pip and Pap Family Hub
Click Here to visit the Pip and Pap Phonics Family Hub.
Late & Absent:
Attendance is important to us. If children are not in school regularly this can hamper their academic and social progress.
If your child is absent for reasons of sickness, please let the school office know promptly by telephone or by email. We are required to keep records of all absences.
Attendance is celebrated weekly as a whole school and daily in class.
Families are supported by Mrs. Olney, our Deputy Director of Vulnerable Children. It is her role to liaise with families and offer support and challenge for you to improve your child’s attendance. Attendance is tracked daily by leaders and monitored weekly by our Senior Team. It forms a central element when we discuss children’s provision and outcomes.
If you wish to take your child out of school for any other reason you will need to complete an ‘Application for leave of absence’ form. In line with government policy we do not authorise leave of absence for family holidays during term time. If you take your child out of school for a holiday, you risk the local authority issuing a penalty notice or pursuing a prosecution.
In the case of unauthorised holiday, a penalty notice may be issued straight away, without a warning letter.
The penalty notice will be issued by post to a pupil’s home, after one warning letter. Cases of unauthorised absence include pupils caught on Truancy Sweeps, persistent late attendance after the register has closed, internal truanting from lessons and unauthorised holiday.
Good attendance is rewarded weekly with raffle tickets to enter a prize draw at the end of term. 100% attendance at the end of every term is rewarded with cake with Mrs Montague.
How to improve your child’s school attendance and where to get support
Lunch Menus:
Click Here to view our latest lunch menu.
School lunches are provided by award-winning caterers HC3S. To find out more about HC3S, simply click here.
Opening Times:
The school day is as follows:
8.20am - Classrooms are open
8.30am - Morning registration
8.40am - 12.15pm - Morning session
10.15am - 10.30am - Break
1.15pm - 3.15pm - Afternoon session
Earlybirds begins at 7.45. Nightingales runs through to 5.00pm. Both of these services are bookable through the school office.
The school office is open from 8.00am until 3:15pm
Payments:
We use an on-line system to administer payments to the school. This system is called Tucasi and pupil logins are available by contacting the school office.
Payments for lunches, trips, Earlybirds, Nightingales, school facilitated after school clubs and more can be taken using the link below.
Click here - to access TUCASI.
Useful Links:
School Car Park:
We are really grateful for your support in keeping our school community safe, especially when navigating our car park and surrounding areas. Here are our expectations of all:
Please use the pathways and walk around the school car park.
There is a 5mph speed limit in the school car park.
Please turn off engines whilst the cars are parked.
Do not park cars in the spaces in front of the bike store as this is the access for a fire engine.
Cars shouldn’t be parked on the single yellow line or else in a way that would block another car in.
Please be considerate to our neighbours when parking and avoid the area on Ramley Road between the two bollards.
Cars are allowed to park on Hazel Road but please ensure that you are not parked across a driveway or that you are not parking in a way that would mean that a resident’s car is blocked in.
School Uniform:
Taking pride in school is important and one way of showing it and sharing a sense of identity is through school uniform and personal appearance. All children are expected to come to school smartly turned out. We would ask that children do not have extreme fashion haircuts, dye, or style their hair inappropriately.
We also request that children do not wear earrings to school. Our main feeder school, Priestlands, also do not allow earrings at any time so we would appreciate your support with this.
To help families our uniform is very flexible, and most items can be readily bought from many high street outlets.
OLSJ school uniform can be purchased at the retailers below, however the personalised yellow PE T-Shirts can only be purchased through Serious Sport.
Useful Links:
Useful Links:
NSPCC - The UK’s Children’s Charity
Childnet - Help, advice and support for parents and carers.
Sleep - A useful fact sheet.
CEOP - Police online safety centre.
ThinkUknow - Useful online safety advice and educational resources.
Parent Zone - Online safety resources.
Safer Internet Centre - Online safety resources.
NSPCC Online Safety - Online safety resources.
Superstar Sports - Our Sports Provider
Discover the Music Ltd - Our Music Provider
Pip and Pap Phonics - Our Phonics Programme
Following the recent news and concern about the rising cases of Measles and other winter illnesses in children, Public Health have some ‘Back to School’ advice: UKHSA reminds parents of back-to-school advice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
In addition, the following links may be useful.
MEASLES - Don’t let your child catch it (publishing.service.gov.uk)
MEASLES - Protect yourself, protect others (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Translations of Routine Immunisation Schedule QR Code Poster - Health Publications
Measles :: Healthier Together (what0-18.nhs.uk)The Healthier Together app has been developed by local clinicians and offers advice on all the most common childhood illnesses. Treating children at home with medicines from a local pharmacy is often the easiest and quickest way to help them get better. If it is something more serious, the NHS Healthier Together App will guide you to the right NHS help, should you need it.
Visit what0-18.nhs.uk to download from the App Store or get it on Google Play.
