Week 7...The last full week in school: please remember that Thursday and Friday next week are training days so the school is closed to children. It has been a busy week again: Year 2 visited a mosque in Leeds and enjoyed finding out all about the deciraion and different parts of the building; and we have our first football fixtures of this year against Barlby Bridge with both the boys and girls teams in action. Then early next week the Year 6 children head off on their residential adventures!
School applications The deadline for applications for secondary school (Y7) is Thursday 31st October. Any applications after this will be treated as 'late' and will be dealt with after all the others, which means you may not get your first or second choice of school. With Holy family at Carlton closing, it is even more important that families apply on time.
Applications are also open for children who are due to start school in September 2025. These should be made online at https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/education-and-learning/school-admissions The deadline for these applications is Wednesday 15th January 2025. Please remember, even if your hild attends our nursery, you will still need to apply for a primary school place.
Reminder: start of the day The school day starts at 8:50am and children arriving after this time are marked as 'late'. The registers close at 9:10am which means that children arriving after this time are marked as 'U' ('late after registers') which counts as an unauthorised absence.
Attendance & illness In line with the new regulations around attendance, we are now having to share attendance information with North Yorkshire on a monthly basis. This includes where children have already missed a lot of time due to illness, and where we have reason to believe they may miss 15 days or more over the year (looking at patterns in the previous year) so the attendance team can pick this up. Obviously where a child has specific medical conditions or has had surgery we are mindful of this, but we do have children who have missed significant amounts of school through shorter blocks of illness which have added up to 20 or more days.
North Yorkshire Community Messaging (from NY Police) North Yorkshire Community Messaging allows members of the public to register to receive alerts, crime notifications and community news from North Yorkshire Police, this also includes businesses and schools within our communities in Selby to sign up to. This allows us to create an appropriate list of contacts and be able to reach out to you with crime prevention advice, this is a free service, and the information comes to your email only. (There are no text messages pinging away all day and night.) Sign up on this link https://www.northyorkshirecommunitymessaging.co.uk/#signup-section
Safeguarding newsletter The October Spotlight on Safeguarding parent newsletter is available here https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/brayton-cofe-primary-school/UploadedDocument/27c470af-783e-4561-a455-86148a57c03d/2024-october-primary-newsletter.pdf This month's edition includes advice on sharing images.
Contacting school Messages about absence, medicine, appointments & changes to after school picks ups must come through the school office either by phone 01757 704308 or email admin@bp.starmat.uk. Messages through Dojo don't work if a member of staff is absent, and also staff do not have their phones with them in the classrooms while they are working with the children so they can't always pick them up.
Term dates 2024-25 The term dates for this year are on the school website at https://brayton-cofe-primary-school.secure-primarysite.net/term-dates/
Jewellery No necklaces, bracelets, rings or other jewellery should be worn to school. If your child has earrings, these must be removed for PE sessions, or earrings can be left at home on PE days. Earrings for school should be small stud types so they don't get caught and cause any injuries.
