Special Reading Week Challenges

• July newsletter

  Mon 15 Jul 2019 Mr. O'Connell

  Our latest newsletter is now available on the All Saints' website and has been sent to all parents via ParentMail.

   

  The July newsletter includes:

   

  • News of our successful summer fayres (many thanks to our PTFA and to all who supported);
  • Term dates for next year (including the dates of our agreed INSETs);
  • Staffing updates: goodbyes, welcome back and hello to new staff;
  • Our new homework policy (many thanks to the help of the Parents' Forum in establishing this);
  • Our revised attendance policy;
  • Things to look out for in September!

   

  I wish you an enjoyable and restful summer break.

   

  Many thanks for your support,

   

  Mr. O'Connell

   

• Summer fayre success!

  Fri 05 Jul 2019

  Many thanks to the parents, relatives and staff who made the Junior school's summer fayre a huge success. Our PTFA managed to raise a whopping £2,657.64 for our children. Wonderful news! Thank you to everybody involved.

   

  We are now looking forward to a sunny and successful Infant summer fayre this afternoon. The gates open from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. and our PTFA are working hard to prepare.

   

  The staff and I hope to see you this afternoon and many thanks for your continued support. It makes a huge difference for our children.

   

  Many thanks,

  Mr. O'Connell 

• Parents guide to Relationship and Health education

  Mon 01 Jul 2019 Miss. Harcup

  The government has just published guidance on Relationship and Health education which will be a statutory part of the curriculum from September 2020. This guidance is available on our website, under: Curriculum/Relationship and Sex Education

   

  We have already started to work with parents to consider what our curriculum should look like for our children. In our recent parents’ survey, 95.3% of the parents who responded stated that they would like school to provide ‘sensitive and age appropriate’ sex education. 

   

  Parents worked with senior leaders during our recent Parents' Forums meeting to consider what this might look like and what content they considered to be more appropriate for secondary school. It was interesting to see the many similarities between the sets of parents and it was also very interesting to discuss the common areas which were parents thought should be consistently developed throughout a child’s time in school. These included:

  • Families: they are important because they give love and security. Others’ families, either in the school or the wider world, sometimes look different but they share the same charactistics of love and security.
  • Feeling positive about ourselves and our body.

   

  Our next step is to undertake the same exercise with our staff in a training session on the 9th July as we start work to develop an appropriate curriculum and policy.

   

  Please note, that as sex education is not compulsory, parents will always have the right to withdraw their child/ren. However, we hope that by working with parents, staff and governors that we will develop a ‘sensitive and age appropriate’ curriculum for all of our children and families.

   

  Please contact me via the Junior school office if you would like any further information.

   

  Miss. Harcup

• Welldressing 2019

  Mon 01 Jul 2019

  Last week our children worked with staff at both schools to help put together this wonderful well dressing.

   

  Well done to the children for showing such care and pride and a huge thank you to our staff who supported our children