Spring 1 , Week 1: Friday 12th January 2024

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Welcome back ! Can I start by saying a big thank you on behalf of the staff for your lovely gifts to us all before Christmas. In these difficult times, your generosity was overwhelming.  I hope you had a peaceful Christmas break and enjoyed spending time with your family. It has been wonderful to welcome the children back to school and see them settle back to school life well. We have lots in store for 2024 which we will keep you informed of through our newsletter, email and text. One of our focuses this term is improving punctuality and attendance, if you need any support please speak with Mrs Henry. Have a great week!

StreetTag is an app that encourages children and their families to be more active and to travel sustainably to school by turning the world around them into a virtual playground. Users earn points in the app by walking, running, scooting or cycling to the virtual tags that have been placed throughout their community.  The points can be collected if the app is off-line to save the user’s data allowance.  

We are encouraging families, teachers and staff to download and use the app.  A parent/carer user can register two children on their app.  

There are three seasons planned; points earned during each seasons by everyone who has signed up to the leaderboard will be added to the total for the school with the following prizes to be awarded each season to the top five schools:  

1st Place: £500, 2nd Place: £350, 3rd Place: £150, 4th Place: £100, 5th Place: £50 (to be awarded as sports vouchers).

Season Dates:

Season 1: 10th January to 19th March 2024
Season 2:  8th May to 12th July

Season 3: 10th Sept to 13th November

Key points:

• StreetTag is a fun app to motivate parents/carers and children to be active in their local area and to discover parks and green spaces

• It is free for parents/carers to download and register to use.

• It supports children to achieve their 60 daily active minutes.

• It encourages parents and their children to walk or cycle to school.

• The schools’ leaderboard develops team-building skills and a healthy competitive spirit whilst giving an opportunity for the school to win a prize