Nursery

2 years ago
Posted on 15th Jan 2024 by

Attendance

Dear Parents/Carers,

We recognise the importance of good attendance and have this as a central part of the school’s vision, values, ethos and day to day life.

We also recognise the interplay between attendance and the wider school impact this has on our children. This impact could include attainment, behaviour,  special education needs support, supporting pupils with medical conditions or disabilities, safeguarding, wellbeing and support for disadvantaged children.

As part of our clear vision for attendance, we evaluate and monitor expectations, processes and data very regularly.

Across the Autumn term our attendance for the whole school was 95.18% (This is below our target of 96.5%)

The Early Years children attendance figure ended at 92.98%.

Special Educational Needs (SEND) registered children attendance was 95.22%   verses non-SEND at 95.17%  

Pupil premium registered children was 94.05% verses non pupil premium at 95.51%  

We will continue to have a careful focus on attendance as we know it is not only important to your child’s progress and attainment, but also their wellbeing and wider development.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Cook

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 13th Jan 2024 by

Mighty oaks New term

This term in Mighty Oaks 🌳 our Topic is
‘All about me’ As we will be talking about ourselves and our families, we would love to see photos of your houses ( just the outside) and family photos for our boards and display ‘ love you to the moon and back ‘ The family photo is mainly for our new starters as I know many have done this for us already ❤️ and the children love looking at each other’s families. If you haven’t already sent in a family photo, then there’s still time.
All photos of your house and families can be sent in via the app evidence me.

Our Treefic Tuesdays will be starting next week, the following groups will be going in our Am or Pm slots. To make this fair we rotate these termly so every group gets a turn to go. For this please bring in wellies and come in an old coat that you don’t mind getting a little bit dirty.

Am
Green group
Orange group
Red group

Pm
Yellow group
Purple group
Blue group

If you are unsure what group your child is in I can answer this for you now or you could ask on Monday at the gate.

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2 years ago
Posted on 11th Jan 2024 by

Nursery Funding Information

There are now several funding offers available for parents, below is  a short roundup of what the new and existing funding streams look like:

There are 3 different routes for application for 2 year old funded places

 

There are 2 different routes for 3 & 4 Year old funding:

  • 15 hours universal funded places for all children which will be applied for directly through the childcare provider of your choice.
  • 30 hours funding for working families apply here Childcare Choices.

If you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the school office.

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 11th Jan 2024 by

Site Health & Safety

Dear Parents/Carers,

Health and safety when moving around our site is extremely important. Unfortunately, our school grounds were designed in such a way that it is impossible to keep traffic and pedestrians totally separate. Since September we have had several ‘near miss’ incidents involving pedestrians and vehicles on our site, and we continue to see pedestrians walking through the car park where cars are reversing, rather than keeping to the pathways.

It is very evident that we need to alter the current arrangements in place as the risks are too high. Yesterday, the police joined me in assessing the busiest times of the day to look at ways in which we could improve safety.

We are not classified as public highways and instead are classified as private property. As such, we can decide who has access to our site at all times. This access does include blue badge holders. It is worth noting that the vast majority of schools across Telford do not allow any access to their site other than for staff and visitors.

From Monday we will be completely stopping all vehicle movement during our most busy times. The main school gates will be locked to parents each morning between 8:30 and 8:40, and again between 3:10 and 3:20. The pedestrian access will not be affected in any way.

Should you already use the school car park as you hold a blue badge and this has been agreed, you are still welcome to drive onto the site before each of these periods. As the classroom doors open at 8:35 and again at 3:10, this simply means being here five minutes early if you have need of the car park, and not moving your vehicle at all until the children are safely in the building in the morning and off site in the afternoon. In this way, we can ensure that pedestrians at those busy times can safely walk through our site.

We are trying to avoid completely preventing access as we really do want to support families as much as we can, but I hope you can see that the safety of everyone must be paramount. We will monitor how this improves the situation over the rest of this half term.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher