Attendance Expectations

Driving up attendance and tackling persistent absence is at the centre of new stronger measures launched by the Government in January 2024.  You can see why being late matters.

Should you send your child to school if they are poorly?

Whilst we want to improve school attendance, children who are ill should not be in school.  We especially ask that children with diarrhoea or vomiting should stay away from school until they have not been sick or had diarrhoea for at least 2 days (48 hours).  If you’re not sure then you can check the NHS guidelines: Is my child too ill for school?

Advice for managing behaviour at home.

My Family Coach is a free website written by behaviour experts which can support you through the tough times, inspire you with new ideas, and share practical tips to make parenting that little bit easier.  It complements the Team Teach techniques used in our school.  The website gives tips for parents/carers including:

• Responding in a calm way.
• Giving space, or taking a child away from a difficult situation to calm down, if it’s safe to do so.
• Speaking more slowly, using fewer words (which gives them verbal space to self-regulate).
• Giving them enough time to feel back in control of their emotions – and as we know, it can take much longer than we might expect!

There are also some free parent classes available through the My Family Coach website.

Helping your child with Reading

We use the Oxford Owl Read Write Inc scheme for teaching phonics and parents can access some of these Oxford Owl Read Write Inc resources and have access to the Oxford Owl eBook library. You can find more guides on helping your child with their reading on our website in Documents page for each Year group.

Walking to School

We encourage everyone to walk to school if they can.  OCC have this useful guide on Road safety

Healthy Lunches

All KS1 children (Kites to Y2) get a free school lunch and many chidren in KS2 enjoy delicious Kites Kitchen lunches too. But if you are sending in a packed lunch OCC provide some guidelines on packing a healthy lunch. Recent research from Leeds University found that only one in five children had any vegetables or salad in their packed lunch. VegPower have some handy Lunchbox Hacks to help.