Upcoming Events
Christmas Lunch - Wed 18th Dec. Please order via your SchoolPing account or via School Office
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Latest News
Menu for Week
December 2nd - 6th 2019 : Week 2 of the New Menu
Theme for the Week
Advent
Change To Term Dates For 2019/20
Please note that the non pupil day which was previously marked on the calendar on Friday 3rd April has now been moved to Monday 24th February.
Christmas Break
This will be from Thursday 19th Decemberber until Friday 3rd January inclusive. Children return back on Monday 6th January 2020!
Local Visits
To help children with their learning we may often go out of the school gate on a local visit. Your local visit permission slip enables us to do this. We will always inform families in advance if we are planning a local visit, normally via a text message (except for visits to the school field for PE etc). These visits will often be added to the website calendar. All such visits are fully risk assessed and planned prior to taking place.
Junior Parkrun will be held on the recreation ground at 9am on Sunday. Register for free at www.parkrun.org.uk/colchester-juniors/ . Any pupil of the school who runs regularly can order a barcode bracelet and/or barcode tag from the Parkrun website and we will reinburse the cost! (Just show us the items and receipt as proof).
Emergency Repairs to our Building
Our school building is almost 120 years old. It is much loved, but has shown the scars of age, weather, sibsidence, and the effects of two world wars! Sadly, government funding policy means that since 2010 our school, like every other, has had maintenance budgets reduced by 80%. This has been a shortfall of approximately £250,000 for our school alone in this time. The effect of this funding reduction is visible across the country, but for our beautiful building has resulted in emergency repairs being required as a result of continued deterioration. We currently have a significant amount of scaffolding around the site, but hope to have all works completed as swiftly as possible. In the meantime, the inside of the building is open as normal, and all children are learning in fresh, vibrant and engaging classrooms.
...Recent News...
School Meals remain £2.50 per day from September 2019.
Swimming is taught in Year 5. Please be aware that a £2.00 financial contribution will be requested for each lesson. Also, please do not allow your child to have piercings as this may impact upon them being able to join in.
Educational Visits are organised regularly for the children in the school. We will need to request a financial contribution for each visit that is a fair proportion of the total cost involved. Vists risk being cancelled if adequate contributions are not received.
Ofsted conducted an inspection of the school on November 9th and 10th 2017 as part of their normal round of inspections. Our school was judged to be good in all aspects. The full report can be read in the information section of this website.
SATs 2019 Results (Results for the whole year group : not confirmed)
Reading 65%, Writing 82%, Maths 73%, Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling 72%
Combined result 58%
SATs 2019 (Results for children who attended the school for all four years)
Reading 73%, Writing 87%, Maths 79%, Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling 76%
Combined result 66%
Disruptive Weather or Significant Events : in the event of any significant disruptive weather, or unavoidable events (eg lack of utilities), families will be informed by text of any risk to the school being able to open as normal. Please do not keep your child off school unless you have heard from the school formally of any need to close.
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