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Fawbert & Barnard's Primary School

Learning for Life

School Information

SCHOOL DAY

School Sessions are as follows:

8:40 am

Gates Open

8:40 am

Children enter classrooms

8:45 am – 12:00 noon

Morning session

1:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Afternoon session

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 2023
Monday 4 September 2023 to Wednesday 20 December 2023
(NB: Monday 4 September is an INSET day. First day of term for pupils is Tuesday 5 September 2023.)

Autumn Half Term Holiday

Monday 23 October 2023 to Friday 27 October 2023

Spring Term 2024

Thursday 4 January 2024 to Thursday 28 March 2024

INSET days — Thursday 4 January 2024 and Friday 5 January 2024.  Pupils return to school on Monday 8 January 2024.

Spring Half-Term Holiday
Monday 19 February 2024 to Friday 23 February 2024

Summer Term 2024

Monday 15 April 2024 to Tuesday 23 July 2024

Summer Half-Term Holiday
Monday 27 May 2024 to Friday 31 May 2024
INSET Days — Monday 3 June and Tuesday 4 June 2024.  Pupils return to school on Wednesday 5 June 2024 
 

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.