Applications for a place in Reception for September 2026
Children born between 1st September 2021 and 31st August 2022 are due to start reception class at primary school in September 2026. You must still apply for a reception class place even if your child already attends our nursery. The closing date for applications is 15th January 2026. To apply, please follow this link https://www.eadmissions.org.uk/.
Online Safety and Gaming
Christmas is often a time when children are given new computer games or devices. Here are some excellent steps you can take as a parent to guide your child to safe and healthy online gaming.
- Get involved by finding out what type of games your child enjoys and making sure they’re appropriate for their age.
- Play games together with your child and keep the technology in shared family spaces rather than bedrooms.
- Talk to them about who they are playing with and what information they are sharing.
- Talk about what information is and isn’t appropriate to share, particularly personal details that could identify them or their location.
- Talk about the financial costs of games and agree on how children will spend their money online.
- Discuss what they would do if they were bullied online, and what the appropriate steps to take are.
- Ensure you have set up accounts yourself on regularly checked email addresses and with appropriate settings for your child’s age.
- Agree how long is appropriate to play in one session and how many sessions in a day. Then set these restrictions in parental settings with your child.
For more advice on keeping your child safe online; setting up parental accounts; setting up parental controls on devices and specific games, parental guides and more visit:
Christmas Performances
Thank you to everyone who came along to support the children with their festive performances this week. All the children did a phenomenal job with brilliant singing, dancing, speaking and great enthusiasm.
We did ask families to attend only one performance and to limit the numbers of attendees to not include wider family, friends and neighbours etc. Most people followed this guidance and the audiences generally felt less overwhelming for the children so thank you to those who complied with our request. To make it fairer for everyone next year we are thinking that we will issue tickets for the performances to ensure that everyone follows the same rules - look out for the ticketing process next year.
PSA Donation Request
Newsletter Readership
Following the success of the last newsletter readership prize draw - I am trying again to see if we can get more entries than last time. Please enter the draw to prove your commitment to regularly reading the newsletter and for your chance to win a prize! Good luck and thank you. Click here to enter.
Happy Christmas
It has been a very long and busy term for everyone so I hope that you all have a wonderful festive break and get a chance to rest and recover ahead of the start of the Spring Term. Wishing you all a fantastic Christmas and best wishes for a fabulous 2026. I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 6th January. Take care - thank you for your ongoing support.
Ian Hutchings
Headteacher
