Dear Parents and Carers,

At the end of last year we issued an Ebor Trust Newsletter to highlight the new legislation that is now in place around unauthorised absences (holidays during term times, irregular attendance and lateness). It is important at this point to again highlight the new changes from September 2024.

• Penalty notice fines can be issued to parents for each sibling. For example, three siblings absent for term time leave would result in three fines

• Five consecutive days of term time leave could result in a penalty notice fine being issued

• Ten sessions (two sessions per school day) of unauthorised absence in a ten-week period could result in penalty notice fines

It is also important to highlight that repeated attendance issues can result to an escalation

• First Offence - An initial Penalty Notice fine of £160.00 per child could be issued due to non-school attendance (reduced to £80.00 if paid within 21 days)

• Second offence - The second time a penalty notice could be issues within three years. The amount will be £160.00 per child pid within 28 days 

• Third offence and any further offences - Could result in the case being presented to Magistrates Court and a fine of up to £2,500. Cases found guilty can also show on future Disclosure and Barring Service Certificates

This academic year we have notified the local authority of 3 unauthorised absences due to term time holidays.

If you have any questions or queries please speak to Mr Metcalfe.

Yours sincerely

Steve Metcalfe

Attendance Lead

Breakfast Club starts from 7:30 a.m. with breakfast being served until 8:15 a.m. 

After School finish times are 5:00 p.m and 5:30 p.m. 

When booking you will be charged accordingly for the finish time chosen by you. 

It is important that you arrive on time due to staffing ratios. This will also result in a late fee which will need to be cleared before attending future bookings. 

12th October - Portal for Primary School Admissions goes live (https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/education-and-learning/school-admissions/starting-primary-school-and-junior-school)

14th & 17th October - Parent Consultations (www.parents-booking.co.uk/staynorhall)

22nd October - Reception - Year 6 School Flu Immunisations (www.yny.schoolvaccination.uk/flu/2024/northyorkshire) 

28th October - 1st November - Half Term Holiday (School closed to all)

31st October - Portal for Secondary School Admissions closes 

4th November - School Reopens

7th November - Open Afternoon for prospective new parents (1:30pm - 3:00pm see below for more information)

26th & 28th November - Whole school Open Doors Event

15th January - Portal for Primary School Admissions closes 

You are invited to make appointments for the school's next parent-teacher meetings.  If your child has a MSP or EHCP, you will have received a separate appointment and do not need to make a booking.

The parent-teacher meetings are on 14/10/2024 and 17/10/2024.

To make your appointments please log in at: parents-booking.co.uk/staynorhall

To login you will need to enter your name and your child's name (First Name & Last Name). The login details you enter must match those we have on record for you.

Appointments will be available to book from 17:00 on 27/09/2024 until 12:00 on 14/10/2024. 

After you have made your appointments you can choose to print or e-mail confirmation.

If you cannot login please contact the school office.

N.B. The email address field on the login page is only used to send your appointment confirmation. If you have problems logging in, it will not be because of the e-mail address you entered.

We look forward to you joining us for parents' evening.

Kind regards,

Staynor Hall Community Primary Academy

Dear Parents/Guardians,

As the days grow shorter and the evenings become darker, it’s important to remind our children about staying safe, especially on their way to and from school. Here are a few helpful tips from North Yorkshire Fire Brigade around staying safe:

1. Always wear a helmet when riding a bike, even for short journeys

2. Make sure you have lights on your bike, and they are charged up

3. Make sure your front light is white and your rear light is red so other road users know which way you are travelling

4. Make sure your bike is fitted with front, side and rear reflectors at all times

5. Wear high visibility clothing during the day and reflective clothing or have reflective strips for when it gets darker. These could be on gloves, vests, sashes, bags or even bikes

6. If you’re walking keep to footpaths where there is one. If there isn’t one keep to the righthand side so you can see on-coming traffic.

7. Pay attention to your surroundings, take out earphones so you can hear vehicles approaching

8. Use designated crossing points where they are available

Please visit https://www.northyorksfire.gov.uk/your-safety/safety-campaigns/dark-nights-safety-campaign/ for more tips around supporting your child to stay safe as the nights are drawing in.

Thank you for your attention and care.

Best regards,

Steve Metcalfe

Designated Safeguarding Lead

Staynor Hall Primary School 

What's Cooking?

I have continued working with Team Aire this week and have started working with Team Wharfe too.  We have continued to make Yo Yo Biscuits in celebration of what they have been learning in the classroom (old and new toys).  They have tried many new skills including using digital scales, using a rolling pin and cutters and showed excellent spreading skills when it came to icing the biscuits. They also learnt about where flour comes from and the process it goes through to get to the shops.

Well done to the rest of Team Aire and to Team Wharfe, your biscuits looked delicious.  I do hope you enjoy sharing them!

Mrs Soper

Cook School Lead

To help you get on with your day and not waiting for a member of the team become available, we would like to ask for the following:

• When returning forms, these can be placed into the internal post box located to the left hand side of the entrance doors. 

• Information regarding change of contact details, medical conditions, address or emergency contacts are to be emailed to admin.shs@ebor.academy. We must hold this information in writing. 

• A leave of absence form must be completed and returned to the school for all absence unrelated to illness or appointments. 

• Information regarding appointments are to be emailed to admin.shs@ebor.academy. We will ask for a copy of the appointment confirmation for our records. This can be a photo or a screenshot included in the email. 

Whilst it can be easy to speak to someone face to face we will request that most queries be emailed across so they can be passed on to the member of staff so information is not missed. 

Please can we also ask that if using the disabled bays when collecting and dropping off that the gates are closed behind you for safeguarding purposes. 

Hello! 

As many of you will know, the FOSHA committee met on Tuesday 8th October for our Annual General Meeting where the new committee members were elected and plans were made for the year ahead. 

FOSHA is run entirely by volunteers and we are always on the lookout for more help so if you are able to offer any support please let us know! 

We are really excited for our first event of the year which will be a Halloween Disco, held on the 24th October- information on how to purchase tickets for this event will be shared shortly. 

We will also be launching a competition for the children to design a logo for FOSHA- more details to follow! 

Come and join our brand new Facebook page to keep up to date at FOSHA- Friends of Staynor Hall Academy. Or on Instagram at FOSHA_friendsofstaynorhall.

Have a great weekend,

 Your FOSHA committee.