SCHOOL DAY

School Sessions are as follows:

School office hours:

8:30 am – 4:00 pm Monday to Friday

ARRIVING AT SCHOOL

School officially starts at 8:45 am, but all children should aim to enter their classrooms between 8:40 and 8:45 am.  This gives 5 minutes to get settled and begin early morning work.  Please be punctual.  The security gates are opened at 8:40 am for children to enter the school.   

COLLECTING CHILDREN FROM SCHOOL

Please collect your children promptly.  The school gates are opened at 3:10 pm.  If your child is not collected after school, and we have not been able to contact you or your emergency contact number by 5pm we will inform the police.

EVENING EVENTS

All children in Years 3, 4 and 5 are expected to take part in their evening performance at Christmas.  Y6 children perform in an evening performance in the summer term and are expected to attend.  

DATES OF EVENTS

The academic year calendar is published to the website as soon as possible in the Autumn term.  We aim to send out reminder dates at the beginning of each term and any changes of dates are notified to parents immediately.

TERM DATES

Autumn Term 2024
Monday 2 September 2024 to Friday 20 December 2024
(NB: Monday 2 September and Tuesday 3 September are INSET days.  First day of term for pupils is Wednesday 4 September 2024.  There is also an INSET day on Friday 20 December 2024.)

Autumn Half Term Holiday

Monday 28 October to Friday 1 November 2024

Spring Term 2025

Monday 6 January 2024 to Friday 4 April 2025

Spring Half-Term Holiday
Monday 17 February to Friday 21 February 2025

Summer Term 2025

Tuesday 22 April 2025 to Tuesday 22 July 2025

Summer Half-Term Holiday
Monday 26 May 2025 to Friday 30 May 2025
INSET Day — Monday 2 June 2025.  Pupils return to school on Tuesday 3 June 2025 
 

SCHOOL CLOSURE PROCEDURES

The decision to close the school is taken after assessing a number of factors such as heating, safety of the grounds and the number of staff able to get into school. In the event of us closing, we will follow the procedure below:

• An e-mail via parentmail will be sent to you stating we are closed or opening late
• A message will be put onto this website in the "Notices & Announcements" box
• Parents can look on the Essex County Council’s website. For live updates. This page will be constantly updated as notifications of school closures are received and will list next day closures from 6:00 pm each evening.
• Essex Radio stations will also continue to broadcast school closure messages

If none of the above occur, we are OPEN as normal and there is no need to telephone to ask. Perhaps parents could arrange a telephone tree amongst friends in classes to make sure the message gets to everyone.