Our Out-of-School provision has been setup to support our most vulnerable children as well as children whose parents are considered to be in one of the 'critical key worker' groups.

Vulnerable children have been defined by the Local Authority (LA) in conjunction with the Government’s Department for Education (DfE) as:

• Those children with an Education, Health & Care Plan
• Children who are currently receiving support from a Social Worker i.e. those officially designated as a Child In Need (CIN), a Looked After Child (LAC) or those subject to a Child Protection (CP) plan

• NHS staff
• Teachers and school support staff
• Police and community support officers
• Frontline civilian police staff
• Prison officers and staff
• Probation officers and trainee probation officers
• LA officers and LA/NHS social workers
• Uniformed staff in fire and rescue services
• Armed forces personnel and some civilian MOD personnel (i.e. clinical staff, MOD police, uniformed fire and defence) and some discharged personnel
• Highway agency traffic staff
• LA environmental health officers/practitioners
• Care workers
• Food/supermarket drivers and other workers

No, the Government's guidance now stipulates that all key worker places should be offered on a full time basis only.

Yes, we are able to accommodate part time attendance providing parents and carers request this in advance and in writing via the school office.  Evidence of shift patterns may be requested.

Please bring your child to their normal entrance doors between 8.40am and 8.55am - our usual gate opening times.  At the end of the day, please collect from the same entrance/exit doors between 3pm and 3.15pm (depending on their usual finish time).

Our childcare provision will open at 8.40am as usual (with gates closing at 8.55am) and finish by 3.15pm (depending on the age of the child).  When we have a more accurate idea of the numbers of children attending, we will make a decision about Breakfast Club.

To begin with, our childcare provision will open at 8.40am as usual (with gates closing at 8.55am) and finish at 3pm.  However, once we have a more accurate idea of staffing and children numbers, we will look to extend this further as soon as possible.

Children are expected to continue wearing school uniform.

It will be very important that clothes are washed properly in order to minimise the risk of germs being spread.  All clothes and footwear must be suitable for a school environment (inc. being outdoors) and may well get dirty at some point.

Children will need to have a water bottle with them and provided with a healthy morning snack e.g. a piece of fruit, as our normal fruit supplies may not continue. 

We are currently working with our caterers regarding school meals.  However, it is likely that our kitchen will be closed and therefore, every child would need to be supplied with a packed lunch from home.

There may be other items e.g. wellington boots and changes of clothing, that we ask to be supplied from time to time depending on the nature of activities planned for your child.

We have been working closely with our caterers and have made arrangements for all children attending our childcare provision from Monday 23^rd March to have a cooked meal as would usually be available. 

Meals must be booked via ParentPay in the same way as usual before 9.30am.  If you would like your child to have a packed lunch provided from home instead, please send them with this as normal.

No charges are being made except for school meals at lunchtime (when available).

If your child is eligible for Free School Meals (income related OR thorough the Universal Infant Free School Meals entitlement), this will continue as normal.  Parents and carers will still be expected to book school meals (or stipulate that they will have a home-provided packed lunch) via our normal ParentPay system.  This is needed in order to ensure that our caterers can provide the correct meal numbers and so that we know who we are expecting to attend. 

More details will be sent out shortly.