We hope you all had a restful half-term break. As we head towards the second half of the spring term, we have lots of exciting learning planned and we're looking forward to seeing the children flourish over the coming weeks.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact your child's class teacher or the school office.

Safeguarding Parent / Carer  Survey:

 🌟 The results are in!

Following our safeguarding survey, we're really pleased that:

✅ 95% of you feel your child is safe at school

✅ 95% of you are confident we keep your child safe

✅ 100% of you feel we would take your concerns seriously and act appropriately

✅ 95% of you would recommend our school to other parents because children are kept safe here

This is fantastic and shows we have a strong safeguarding culture at Vauxhall Primary School.

Areas you would like more information about:

"Please inform parents of how to access the safeguarding policy, as not many are aware" -  Our policy can be found here on our website. 

"School pick up permission" - Please check your email for a letter full of information about who can collect your child and our security measures.

"I hope lockdown measures are in place to keep the children secure in event of any major incidents like intrusion etc." - Today we successfully completed our scheduled lockdown drill, with everyone secure within 5 minutes. Like fire drills, these practices are an important part of our safety procedures and help ensure everyone knows what to do in the very unlikely event of an emergency. Well done to all our pupils!

Thank you again for taking the time to complete the survey. Your feedback is really important to us and helps us improve.

We'll ask for your views again next year to see how we're doing.

This week in Year 2, we have started our new Science topic: Plants.

The children have begun learning about what plants need to grow and stay healthy. We talked about seeds and how they grow into plants. To help us understand this, we went outside and planted (sowed) some seeds in different conditions. For example, some seeds will have more sunlight, some will have less, and some may have different amounts of water.

Over the next few weeks, we will watch the seeds carefully and see what happens as they grow. The children will be looking for differences and talking about why some plants grow better than others. This will help them learn how light, water, air and warmth help plants to grow.