Office Reminders:

Late Collection from After School Club

Please be aware that if your child is not collected on time at the end of the school day then they will not automatically be booked into After School Club. Office staff will attempt to contact all those with parental responsibility before moving on to contact other nominated adults that you have authorised to collect your child, for example a grandparent or childminder. These will be contacted in the order of priority that you have provided to us.

Recently, we have noticed that some children have only one adult contact on their record and, whilst it might be that this parent or carer collects daily, it is best practise to have the details of another adult that could collect your child in an emergency. If you think that this might apply to you, please contact the school office to provide details of an additional adult for this purpose.

New Breakfast Club and After School Club System

This week we launched a new booking and payment system for our Breakfast Club and After School Club. It is our hope that this new system will be much easier and more streamlined than the previous one. At the present time you are able to book sessions for any date, however please be reminded that as per the guidance sent out earlier this week, from Friday 6th May we will be applying a 5 day advance booking restriction to the system to enable us to provide accurate catering and staffing provision for both clubs. Last minute bookings can still be made, but you must contact the Academy office in advance and not just send your child along to a session without booking as there may not be a space available. If your child is not booked into After School Club in advance and is not collected at the end of the school day, you will be contacted and asked to collect your child as per the late collection guidance above.

Forgotten Items

Please ensure that your child arrives at school with everything they need for their learning each day. This includes, but is not limited to, water bottles, packed lunches, coats, wellington boots and shoes!

Office staff spend a considerable amount of time every day walking back and forth to and from the main gate to retrieve forgotten items from parents and carers, before then having to distribute them to children all across the school. The time staff invest in doing this impacts the remaining time they have available to spend answering your phone calls, emails and performing other important admin tasks. We would therefore be grateful if you could avoid bringing items to the school once the gates have closed, where at all possible.

Respecting School Property

It has been observed on our CCTV that some children are playing in the area close to the rear kitchen door before school. Some pupils have been spotted kicking the door and riding very close to it on their scooters, which I will also take this opportunity to remind you must not be ridden on school property at any time. The rear kitchen door has already suffered damage and is awaiting repair, however staff are concerned that further damage is being caused and would ask that children avoid touching the door, leaning on it or playing near to it.

On a similar note, please ensure that your child(ren) remain close to you at all times whilst on site and whilst they are waiting to come into class or onto the MUGA. Before and after school, children should continue to behave in a way that reflects our Academy Behaviour Policy and should be respectful to school property and other children and families at all times.

Contacting the class teachers:

If you have concerns that you would like to raise with the academy, please do so via the school office email address on contactus@langleyparkprimaryacademy.org.uk and it will be directed to the relevant members of staff.

Whole School Attendance:

93.97%

Weekly Class Attendance Award:

98.67%

Zari

Key Dates:

Monday 2nd May - Bank Holiday

Tuesday 3rd May - Year 2 SATs begin

Tuesday 3rd May - Year 1 Phonics Screening Parent Meeting, 2pm

Wednesday 4th May - Parental deadline for acceptances/refusals for Year R September 2022 entry

Monday 9th May - Year 6 SATs begin. Don't forget that we are running a breakfast club in class from 8.10am each day this week!

Monday 9th May - Parents Evening for Jubilee Class, 3.40pm to 5.30pm

Thursday 12th May - Parents Evening for Jubilee Class, 3.40pm to 7.00pm

Please note that these are confirmed dates but should we need to change any due to unforeseen circumstances, we will communicate this with you with as much notice as possible.