Woodland View Primary School

5^th September 2019

Autumn Term Information

Dear Parents & Carers

Welcome back to Woodland View Primary School for the new term. It has been a pleasure to be back in school and seeing lots of hard work and excellent conduct in the first few days.

We welcome our new starters in Foundation and throughout school and hope that they have a happy time at Woodland View, enjoying their learning and making great progress.

Please take time to read this letter and make a note of any dates for your diary. Our weekly newsletter is posted on the school’s website every Friday and emailed to you if you have signed up for this service. We also have the App which you can download to your mobile phone, please go your App store and download School Jotter, then search for Woodland View Primary School. It is the easiest way to provide information for parents and carers. News, dates and other events are included. All dates are included at least twice so that if you miss a newsletter you will be able to keep up with what we are doing.

WEBSITE

The website is at www.woodlandview.notts.sch.uk, the website has useful information on it including a calendar of dates of school events, inset days and lots of information for parents and carers.

DATES

These are the known dates for the term so far. As other dates become known, we will include them in the newsletter.

Friday, 13^th September                          Roald Dahl Day

Friday, 4^th October                               School Photos

Friday, 11^th October                              Parent Dinner Day

Friday, 18^th October                              Museum Day

Friday, 18^th October                    School Closes for Half Term

Monday, 4^th November                  School re-opens

Friday, 15^th November                           Anti-Bullying Day

Tuesday, 3^rd December                          Foundation Nativity

Wednesday, 4^th December                     Foundation Nativity

Tuesday, 17^th December                         KS1 Nativity

Wednesday, 18^th December                    Christmas Lunch

Thursday, 19^th December                        Parent Christingle workshop

Friday, 20^th December                  INSET Day

Monday, 6^th January 2020              School re-opens

WHAT ARE OUR SCHOOL TIMES?

Breakfast Club - 8.00 am - 8.40 am

Doors open - 8.35 am

School starts - 8.50 am

Break - 10.30 am - 10.45 am

Lunch

KS1 - 12 noon - 12.45 am

KS2 - 12.15 pm - 1.00 pm

School finish - 3.00 pm

The nursery morning sessions begin at 8.45 am and finishes at 11.45 am.

The afternoon session begins at 12.15 pm and ends at 3.15 pm.

Our breakfast club is open to all our children; the cost of this is provision is £1.00 per day.

There is also the facility of wraparound care until 5.30pm hosted by Vicki Whatmore, for this provision please contact her direct on 07540073508.

TIMEKEEPING AND ATTENDANCE

Please be on time for school. Being late, even by a few minutes, affects the start of the school day for all of the children in your child’s class. Children should enter school at 8.35am, ready to start new learning at 8.50am. By completing registration on time, we are able to ensure the attendance of children and start lessons promptly.

Last term we had children arriving at school after the register had been taken. This makes it very difficult for us to make a prompt start to the day, which has an impact on learning.

If your child is unwell, please notify the office first thing, stating why your child is not in school and when you expect them to return. Please call everyday of their illness.

Holidays during term time will not be authorised, fines will be imposed in accordance with the Local Authority guidelines. Fines will also be imposed for persistent absence (below 90%).

Please be on time to collect your child from school at 3.00 pm or 3.15 pm from Nursery. Thank you for your help with this.

Please do not stand on the steps by the playground at the end of the day.

The following items are a few reminders to help school run smoothly and safely.

CONTACTING SCHOOL

We understand that you may have concerns that you wish to raise with school. We welcome early notification of any concerns so that we can start to address them as soon as possible.

Please see the following procedure to highlight any of your concerns:

Step 1

Speak to class teacher

Step 2

Arrange appointment with your child’s Head of Family

• Nursery, reception, Year 1 Miss Haywood
• Year 2, 3 & 4 Miss Rawstron
• Year 5,6 Miss Fiddimore

Step 3

If your concern is about behaviour Mrs Guest and Mrs McDonald are our Senior Behaviour Leads.

Step 4

Arrange appointment with Headteacher.

For an appointment with any member of staff please either call into the office or email office@woodlandview.notts.sch.uk and we will try to respond within 24 hours. If it is a Safeguarding emergency, Mrs J Cockerill is our Deputy Safeguarding Lead and can normally speak to you more quickly.

UNIFORM

Please make sure that children wear the correct uniform, including proper shoes. This is set out on our website. The uniform is smart and practical and enables the children to feel part of the school. If you are unsure about the uniform, please ask. Please label all items of clothing with your child’s name. We can easily return lost labelled items

PE KIT

Children should have the correct PE kit in school. For indoor PE this is a white T-shirt, black shorts and suitable shoes. Tracksuits or jogging bottoms should only be worn outside in colder weather. Football shirts are not to be worn for PE. Leggings are not to be worn for PE. Please label all items of clothing with your child’s name.

SCHOOLMONEY

Our school is cashless! We use SchoolMoney for all payments including school dinners and school trips, a login will be sent to you via email and or text message. It is important to keep us updated with any new email addresses or change of telephone numbers.

This is a polite reminder that accounts must always be in credit. There must always be sufficient funds in the account to pay for any meals you wish your children to have. We cannot allow children to have snacks or a lunch if their account is in debit. Thank you for your help with this.

JEWELLERY

Jewellery should not be worn. Wristwatches are permitted, as are studs for pierced ears. Other piercings are not allowed on health and safety grounds.

MOBILE PHONES

If children bring a mobile phone to school, these should be left at reception upon arrival and collected at the end of the school day.

TEXT AND EMAILS AND APP

At Woodland View Primary, we use text messages and emails to communicate with parents & carers. This helps us to inform you of any problems such as school closure in adverse weather conditions or lateness, due to heavy traffic on a school visit.  We also email our weekly newsletter with updates of things that are happening in school on upload to our website.  Please download our school app at the App Store, Google or see our website for details.

ENTRY TO AND EXIT FROM SCHOOL

This should be via the pedestrian entrance at the start and end of the day. Please do not drive up to the school gates, as we need to keep this free from obstruction in case of an emergency.

Please always go to reception if you need to visit during the school day and use the electronic signing in system so that we know you are in the building.

CAR PARK

Parents should not use the car park unless they have prior permission from myself, which may only be granted in extreme circumstances. Thank you for your help and patience with this.

AT THE END OF THE DAY

Parents and children should leave the site at the end of the day. Please do not allow your children to play on the school site at the end of the day by going on the field.

We hope you find this information useful, if you need any assistance please speak to our office staff who will be happy to help.

Kind regards

Mrs Ruby Grey

Headteacher