Walton-on-Trent C of E Primary

and Nursery School – Weekly News

Friday 6th March 2020

Stars of the week

Hedgehogs – Sebastian

Squirrels – Jemima

Owls – Sam

Foxes – Sam

Badgers – Evan

Great work!

Take Care Champions

Hedgehogs – Nozomie

Squirrels – Vinnie

Owls – Logan

Foxes – Erica

Badgers – Hannah

Well done!

Marvellous Manners Medal

This week’s Marvellous Manners Medal was awarded to:

Hedgehogs - Reece

This is awarded by the midday supervisors.

World Book Day 2020

Wow what a creative lot you all are! We were so impressed with your ideas and costume creations yesterday. What a lot of new words for the children to learn.

Thank you for your efforts and for helping to raise money to buy more books for our school. You raised £85 in total and we will use this to buy more books for our library and class book shelves.

Attendance

Week Commencing 24th February 2020

Hedgehogs – 94.88%

Squirrels – 96.38%

Owls – 97.58%

Foxes – 100%

Badgers – 98.75%

Well done Foxes!

Dates for the Diary

Week commencing 9th March – Science week.

Friday 13th March – Comic/Sports Relief Tuesday 17th March – Alice in

Wonderland, whole school theatre performance.

Week commencing 23rd March – Rec to Y5 Parents’ evenings & book fair

Thursday 2nd April – Curriculum Showcase

Friday 3rd April – Break up for Easter holidays.

Monday 20th April – Back to school. Wednesday 6th May – Fashion

show/shopping event. Thursday 7th May – Class and Y6 leavers

photos. Monday 18th May – Wednesday 20th

May – Y6 Lea Green Trip. Friday 5th June – Y6 JTHS Transition Day

Friday 19th June – Inset Day Friday 26th June, Monday 29th June & Tuesday 30th June – John Taylor High School Induction days (John Taylor Free

School – Dates to be confirmed) Tuesday 7th July – Y2 & Y6 Fire Safety

Talks Thursday 9th & Friday 10th July – Year

3 & 4 overnight camp.

‘’Living, Learning, Laughing’’

Sports Events & School Trips

Tuesday 10th March – Year 5/6 Girls Football Festival at Derby Soccerdome

Tuesday 17th March – Year 5/6 JTHS Community Tea

Wednesday 25th March – Year 5/6 Hockey at Shobnall

Please note: a small number of children will be chosen for some of these events.

Letters will be sent home if your child has been invited to take part.

Family lunches

The family lunches continued this week with the YEAR 1 parents joining their children for a roast

dinner. We hope that you enjoyed it! Year 2 family lunch on Thursday 19th March.

Soccer Stars

Soccer Stars after school club will start Monday 9th March.

All Reception – Year 4 boys and girls welcome.

Please confirm your child’s place by paying via ParentPay.

Outdoor PE kit required.

Comic Relief

Please come dressed in sports kit or sports relief dress for a donation to Sports Relief.

Community Litter Pick

The annual Walton litter pick will take place on Saturday 21st March, 9:00am till 11am.

Pizza and hot drinks are being donated by The Swan after the litter pick.

Please confirm your attendance with the school office so they can make sure there is

enough equipment available.

Fashion Show

On Wednesday 6th May we shall be hosting a fundraising Fashion show and shopping

event.

All your favourite brands at up to 75% off. Dorothy Perkins, River Island, Next, New

Look, Topshop, Warehouse and many more.

The event will start at 7:30pm and finish at 9:30pm. Tickets are £5 per person and will be on sale from Monday 27th January from

the school office.

We need adult volunteers of all ages and sizes to help model the clothes. Please

contact the school office if you can help out.

British Science Week

From Monday 9th March we will be taking part in British Science Week.

As well as their normal science lessons the children will be taking part in activities

based around ‘Our Diverse Planet’.

We would like this opportunity to invite parents into school to join their children in

taking part in a science experiment!

This will take place on Friday 13th March at 2:00pm.

Please let the office know by Friday 6th March if you will be attending so that

resources can be prepared appropriately.

Owls session will take place in the woods during Forest Friday so please wear

appropriate clothing.

We hope to see you there!

Parent Lunches

Year 2 – Thursday 19th March at 12:00pm

Year 3 – Friday 27th March at 12:00pm

Year 4 – Wednesday 22nd April at 12:10pm

Year 5 – Friday 1st May at 12:15pm

Year 6 - Wednesday 15th July at 12:15pm

All Parent lunches need to be booked by paying on ParentPay. Please see

ParentPay for due dates.

Online Safety

Girls' Football Competition

Mr Willetts' took our first all-girl team to Derby Soccerdome to compete in a tournament with 28 other schools.

Mr Willetts was immensely proud of the team with lots of staff from other schools commenting on our children's manners,

determination, resilience and sheer grit to be the best they could be.

Mr Willetts is currently completing his level 1 coaching certificate at St George's Park and

once completed will be offering an after school training session for our football

teams.

Inset day

We have decided to hold an additional inset day on Friday 19th June.

We have been working hard on curriculum development and our school vision and values so would like an additional day to focus and build on this as a whole staff

team.

As an academy school we can have additional inset days for staff training and

development.

No Toys in School

A few children have been bringing toys in from home recently. We have a no toy rule as

they get lost etc.

If you feel that your child needs a ‘fiddler’ then please speak to Mrs Irvine our SENCO as

this can be provided by school for those children who need this for sensory purposes

Curriculum Showcase

Our next Curriculum Showcase is planned to take place on Thursday 2nd April at 2pm

Corona Virus

We are keeping up to date with the Government daily updates. Mrs Rowe is working with the Governing Body and the other JTMAT heads to consider the government advice and formulate a

plan if the virus arrives with us, In the meantime, we have increased cleaning, we are teaching children to wash hands for a

greater length of time with plenty of soap and we have purchased sanitizer dispensers for around school. If anyone has any contacts or knows where we can get sanitizer from please pop in to the school office as we cannot seem to find anywhere that has any left in stock over the last month!

Please help us to do your bit by encouraging your child to wash their hand properly and keep germs to a minimum. We would be grateful if you could keep school updated with any recent

travel plans that you or a family member may have encountered and of course alert us immediately if corona virus becomes evident in your own networks.

We are looking to reduce any significant events in the school calendar where large groups of families will come together to hopefully reduce the risk of the virus spreading.

We will keep you updated. Thank you.

Medication in School

Gentle reminder that we can only administer prescription medication in school with a care plan completed via the school office and signed by a senior member of staff. All medication must be

named and stored correctly with the prescription information clearly visible. Please do not ask staff members individually if they will administer medicine on your behalf.

If you feel your child requires Calpol during the day, you are welcome to pop up to school during the day however this is with prior agreement from the senior team.

Inhalers and epi pens must all be in date. This is parents' responsibility to keep these updated in

school.

Walton on Trent CE Primary and Nursery School

Code of Conduct: Parents/Carers and other visitors to school

At Walton on Trent CE Primary and Nursery School we are extremely fortunate to have very supportive and friendly

parents without which we would not be able to function so successfully as a Christian School. Educating children is a

process that relies on partnership between parents, class teachers, staff and the school community. It is important that

children see everyone working together to help them understand how to work in the future. Therefore, we will always

welcome parents and carers into school.

This policy is to remind everyone about how we expect them to behave in and around the school.

Guidance

We expect parents, carers and visitors to:

respect the Christian Ethos of our school;

always respect the school staff and support the things that have been done to help your child learn;

set a good example by behaving well and not using bad language;

make sure you ask the school for their view of any incidents so that you can see if it is the same as your child’s view

before you take things further;

make sure your child is behaving so that things don’t get out of hand;

ask the school for help if you don’t understand something or want to know more detail;

In order to have a peaceful, safe and happy school environment, parents, carers and visitors must not:

disrupt classes or any area of the school;

question decisions made by the school in front of children or other parents;

use loud or rude language, swear or show temper;

threaten to, or hit/push a member of the school staff, other parents or carers;

damage or destroy school property;

criticise the school, staff, pupils or other parents on the school premises, or on social network sites;

send abusive or threatening emails or make abusive or threatening phone calls;

physically punish your child on school premises;

go up to another child to ask them, or tell them off, about something that may have happened with your child. This

may be seen as an assault;

smoke or drink alcohol (not at a school event) or have taken other drugs whilst on school premises;

spit on school grounds;

If parents, carers or visitors do not accept our guidance the school may need to contact other authorities and possibly ban

offenders from being on school grounds.

We know that parents, carers and visitors will be happy to help us provide a safe and happy school and we thank you for your

support.

Social Media Code of Conduct for Parents

Walton-on-Trent CE (C) Primary and Nursery School

At Walton-on-Trent CE (C) Primary and Nursery School our policies and procedures have been

written to comply, appropriate, with the General data Protection Regulations – GDPR 2018. Further

information regarding GDPR is available on the school website.

Mission Statement

‘’To provide all of our children with the very best primary education possible so that they will become

less effective and enthusiastic learners in a caring, happy and stimulating Christian environment’’

Statement of intent

Walton-On-Trent CE (C) Primary and Nursery School understands the benefits of using social media;

however, if misused, the school community can be negatively affected, such as by damaging the

school’s reputation. This code of conduct sets out clear procedures for how we expect parents to

conduct themselves on social media and when using messenger apps, such as WhatsApp.

1. Legal framework

1.1. This policy has due regard to statutory legislation, including, but not limited to, the

following:

Data Protection Act 1998

Defamation Act 2013

Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (as amended)

2. E-safety and social media conduct

2.1. Walton-On-Trent CE (C) Primary and Nursery School expects parents to behave in a

civilised nature online and will not tolerate any of the following behaviour online:

Posting defamatory ‘statuses’ about fellow parents, pupils, the school or its

employees

Complaining about the school’s values and methods on social media

2.2. The school has the JTMAT Complaints Procedures Policy in place, to avoid parents

broadcasting grievances online.

2.3. Parents will be made aware of their responsibilities regarding their use of social

networking and their conduct online.

2.4. Breaches of this code of conduct will be taken seriously by the school and, in the event of

illegal, defamatory, or discriminatory content, breaches could lead to prosecution.

2.5. Parents will not attempt to ‘friend’ or ‘follow’ any member of staff on social media.

2.6. Parents are instructed not to post anonymously or under an alias to evade the guidance

given in this code of conduct.

2.7. Walton-On-Trent CE (C) Primary and Nursery School retains the right to request any

damaging material to be removed from social media websites.

3. Online messaging

3.1. Walton-On-Trent CE (C) Primary and Nursery School expects parents to use WhatsApp, for

purposes beneficial to themselves and the school, and will not accept any of the

following behaviour:

Sending abusive messages to fellow parents

Sending abusive messages about members of staff, parents or the school

Sending abusive messages to members of staff

3.2. The school appreciates the simplicity and ease of instant messaging online; keeping in

contact outside of school can benefit the school community by keeping the school

community closer.

3.3. Should any problems arise from contact over messaging apps, the school will act quickly

by contacting parents directly, to stop any issues continuing.

3.4. Walton-On-Trent CE (C) Primary and Nursery School can request a meeting with parents if

any misconduct, such as sending abusive messages or posting defamatory statuses,

occurs online.

3.5. The school’s complaints procedure will be followed as normal if any members of the

parent teacher association or governing body cause any discrepancies through their

conduct whilst using online messaging.

3.6. The head teacher can, with permission of the parent, view messages sent between

members of the parental body in order to deal with problems quickly and effectively.

3.7. The head teacher can request that ‘group chats’ are closed down should any problems

continue between parents or parental bodies.

4. Monitoring and review

4.1. The head teacher will review this code of conduct on an annual basis and will

communicate any changes to all teachers and parents.

Please Note - Jacket potatoes are no longer available

Please see the link below for our themed day menus

https://www2.myschoollunch.co.uk/derbyshire/primary-schools/about-us/menu/

Smoke Free School Gates

We are one of the first schools in Derbyshire to be a part of the Smoke Free School Gates initiative. Have you spotted our new posters that have kindly been produced by Derbyshire Health team?