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Some helpful information of parents whose children are about to start/have just started at our school.
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Information for Parents
Kingsley Community Primary & Nursery School Middle Lane, Kingsley, Frodsham WA6 6TZ Tel 01244 981300
Kingsley Community Primary & Nursery School
First Aid: Several staff are fully qualified first aiders. If your child has an accident at break or lunchtime, they will be seen by the member of staff on duty and a ‘first aider’ if necessary. You will receive a head bump note if your child has bumped his/her head. If we are concerned, we will contact you by phone. Please be aware that some young children often fall over a lot during the first few weeks of school/nursery – this is normal, please do not be alarmed.
‘Accidents’: Young children are asked to bring a spare set of underwear and socks to change into in the event of an ‘accident’. These can be kept in their PE bag on their peg.
Absence Line: Please ring 01244 981300 Ext 1 before 9.15am to inform us of any absence. If you have not contacted us, a member of our team will contact you.
Car Parking: the car park on Middle Lane is for staff and visitors only and must not be used by parents/carers. The car park on Hollow Lane is for parents with children in the Foundation Stage Unit only. All other parents are encouraged to park on Middle Lane and surrounding streets with due consideration for our neighbours. Please remember to use the voluntary one-‐way system at peak times.
CORE PRINCIPLES • If it works, do more of it; if it doesn’t work, fix it or bin it. • The problem is the problem, not the person. • We will constantly review what we do and will seek feedback. • We are a team: Together Everyone Achieves More • Communication will be effective so that everyone is clear about
what is expected. • If we make a change we will make sure it is: Simple, Measurable,
Achievable and Realistic with a Timescale.
Health and Safety
When Things Go Wrong: We are a happy school and enjoy working in partnership with parents, children and outside agencies. We are all working together to help your child achieve his/her potential as an individual. Everything we do or say is done with the best interests of our children in mind, in accordance with established procedures or in the exercise of our professional duties. Whenever a parent is concerned about any issue at the school, we would ask that an appointment is sought with the class teacher or the teacher concerned via the school office. He or she is the person best placed to clarify/discuss concerns, and who is likely to have the closest and most immediate knowledge of the circumstances and issues involved. Hopefully, and usually, this will resolve parents’ concerns, but if this has not been achieved, the class teacher will refer the matter to a member of the Senior Leadership Team who will, after being briefed by the teacher, arrange an early appointment to discuss the matter. Where the concern is with the school as a whole, please contact the office, by ‘phone, in person, or by letter or e-‐mail and, after considering the matter, we will respond or arrange a meeting with the most appropriate member of staff. We believe we need to respond to parents’ concerns and that the response must be delivered in a considered and timely manner. This may involve the teacher in carrying out an investigation, reflecting on school practice and taking time to consider the best way forward before they get back to you, so please be patient.
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• Option 2 School events noticeboard: this contains information on the clubs that are running and other school events.
• Option 3: The school office.
Our school office is open between 8.45am and 3.30pm. To save parents time queuing at the main office, we have installed a postbox in the main entrance. Please use this to drop off money/slips in an envelope stating the child’s name, class and purpose e.g. Freddie Boyce, Y3, Dinner money.
We also communicate with parents via text message: one contact number/child except for exceptional circumstances. Please ensure that we have your phone number. It is our policy to send out messages to Classes/whole School about school events. It is not our policy to send out individual reminders via text message.
If you would like to see your child’s teacher, please make an appointment via the school office. Teachers are very happy to speak to parents but you will appreciate that first thing in the morning can be very disruptive as the children are coming in and settling down for the start of the day.
School events: We will do our best to give you the most notice possible for school events. Please ensure that reply slips and monies are sent into school in a timely manner to enable us to ensure the smooth running of events.
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School Dinners: Dinner money is collected in the classrooms and sent to the school office on a Monday morning, alternatively parents can drop their money off into the postbox in the entrance hall by the school office. All monies should be sent into school in a labelled envelope with the child’s name and class. Parents can pay by cheque (made payable to ‘Cheshire West and Chester Council’) on a weekly, monthly, half-‐termly or termly basis. The cost of a school dinner is £2.10 (£10.50/week). We prefer children to have school dinners/sandwiches for the whole week.
There are hot options every day for dinner in addition to a cold lunch in the summer term. Salad, fresh fruit and drinks (milk, water or fruit juice) are on offer every day. All meals are cooked from scratch on the premises each day and often use locally sourced produce.
Any parents who owe three weeks dinner money or more will need to provide their child with a dinner as the kitchen cannot provide them with a meal until the debt is settled.
Lunchtimes: Children in nursery staying for dinner, have their lunch at 12.00pm with Reception. The Infants have lunch at 12.05. The Junior lunch starts at 12.15 and Mr Sutton will call the children to line up when it is the turn of their class. The children are supervised by Mid-‐day assistants both in the dinner hall and outside in the playground.
Kingsley is particularly effective in promoting pupils’ enjoyment of learning and developing their determination to work hard and do their very best. Ofsted
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Arrival: Children in the Foundation Stage Unit are usually brought into class by their parents. As the year goes on, we would like Reception children to become more independent by coming into class on their own so that they are ready to move into Year 1 by themselves. All other children are expected to come into the school building by themselves unless there is a problem you wish to share with the teacher.
Collection: Children in Nursery and Reception need to be collected from the Foundation Stage Unit Entrance. Children in year 1 from the play area, Y2 from the door at the end of the Infant corridor and Junior children from the playground (Y3) or the area between the two main school buildings. We finish at 3.15pm each day.
The school gates are locked at 9.05am and unlocked around 3.05pm in time for the end of the school day. Please ensure that you are out of the main premises between these times unless you are acting as an adult volunteer. This allows us to make a prompt start to the school day.
Please inform us if someone different will be collecting your child as we will not let them go without your permission.
If you need to collect your child for a medical appointment during the school day, please come to the school office. It is helpful if this is during lesson time rather than at breaks as the children are not easy to find when on the playing field/tennis courts/playground/ canteen.
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Communication:
At school we send letters to parents via email/printed copy/school website. These list up and coming events and share key information with parents regarding the organization of the school and school news. Please let the school office know of your preferred method of communication and ensure that all email addresses and contact numbers are kept up to date. Please read all letters carefully so that you know what is happening in school. Paper copies of letters are only sent home with the oldest sibling and will be handed to the child to put in his/her bag. In the Foundation Stage Unit, parents need to collect letters from the parents’ information point in the entrance. If you do not collect your child, please ask the person collecting to check for letters. If you have something to send in to school, please make sure that your child knows it is in his/her book bag.
For Diary Dates, you can use the calendar on the school website: www.kingsleycp.cheshire.sch.uk
Our school website also contains useful information for parents and copies of key school policies on the Parents section as well as recent photographs from school activities.
At busy times of the day, the answer phone is left on. Please leave a message and a member of staff will get back to you shortly. Our phone system allows you to leave messages for different people:
• Option 1 The absence line