Site Security Feedback

Keeping children, parents, staff and visitors safe is incredibly important to us here at Sir Alexander Fleming Nursery and Primary School. As part of our site security risk assessment, we recently asked parents for their views on our site security and grounds.

Thank you to the parents and carers who completed the survey. Your voice matters! As a result, we have made some amendments to improve our site security based on your comments. This parent guide includes those changes as well as information on our current safety systems.

Please click the link below:

Site Security

PE News

Hi all,
It is so important for our children to be physically active in school but also when they are at home too.
We are increasing our PE sessions so that children for Year 1 to Year 6 get two hours a week and reviewing lunchtimes to provide lots of physical activities.
Read our PE News to know why it is so important….

PE News

Happy holidays…

Mrs T

Year 6 ~France 2024

Our Year 6 set off in the early hours of Monday morning to catch a ferry from Dover to Calais. After 16 hours of travelling they eventually arrived at Chateau Beaumont. They had a fantastic time and spent their days exploring le Mont St Michel, the zoo, markets, supermarkets as well as spending time climbing, archery, fencing and team building. French night meant that they could experience a French delicacy of snails and frogs legs!!

The experience was amazing and the children thoroughly enjoyed it!

Everyone arrived home by midnight on Friday and I imagine spent a lot of the weekend sleeping.

Well done and thankyou to the wonderful adults: Mrs Pigg, Mr Johnson, Mrs Adams and Mrs Wust that gave up their time to go and the parents for allowing your children this experience.

Site Security Survey

Good afternoon everyone,

Keeping children, parents, staff and visitors safe is incredibly important to us here at Sir Alexander Fleming Primary and Nursery School. As part of our site security risk assessment, we are asking parents for their views on our current site security. As you know, we are always looking for ways to make our school even better and parent surveys are a big part of this process. We value your opinion, your voice matters!

Please click the link below to access the survey.

We ask the children termly about how they feel in school and where they feel safe and who they can talk to. We also ask them where they do not feel safe.

Please complete the survey by Friday 15th March 2024.

Best wishes,

Mrs Tomlinson

Happy Half Term

Happy half term everyone!

We look forward to seeing you all back healthy and germ-free on Monday 19th February 2024.

 

World Book Day – Thursday 7th March

World Book Day – Thursday 7th March.
We have not dressed up in ages so we would children to come dressed as their favourite book character. There are prizes on offer so think creative and flamboyant; the more home-made the more chance of winning!
I can’t wait to get my costume ready 🙂

A Parent’s Guide to Attendance

These are the attendance expectations for parents of Sir Alexander Fleming Nursery and Primary School. It will explain what we classify as an authorised or unauthorised absence and explain our monitoring processes. All schools are required by law to keep attendance registers for morning and afternoon sessions.

Absences must either be marked as Authorised or Unauthorised.

Only the school can approve the reason for the absence.

At SAF our aim is for all our children to have attendance above 96%

What is an authorised absence?

  • If your child is ill and you have contacted the school before 9.10am
  • If your child is attending a medical appointment and school have seen evidence.
  • Religious observance

What is an unauthorised absence?

  • If the parent has received a SAL 2 letter and need to provide evidence of illness and are unable to do this.
  • Your child not attending school due to birthday celebrations, visiting family, friends, going shopping or having their hair cut.
  • Your child taking a full day off school for medical/dental appointments
  • Your child arriving to school after 9.10am
  • Your child being absent with an ailment that school would expect them to attend with (headaches, cold, treated after headlice)
  • Your child taking a holiday during term time that has not been authorised by the headteacher
  • Your child missing school due to a medical/dental appointment for a parent/sibling.

Punctuality

It is a parent’s responsibility to ensure their children arrive at school on time.

School has a clear procedure for the ‘start of the school day’. The doors open at 8.30am.  We expect children to be waiting ready to enter their class at 8.30am.  The class doors close promptly at 8.40am and the site manager locks the gates.

Children arriving after 8.40am have to enter school from school reception and receive a Late Mark.

Lateness

Children who are not in the classroom at 8.40am, ready to start the school day are late. They will be recorded as late on the class register.

Children who arrive after 9.10am will receive an unauthorised absence mark for the morning session as the morning registers have closed.

All students arriving late must enter school via the school reception where parents must sign their child into school with an explanation of why they are late.

Late arrival at school may result in:

  • Your child feeling stressed or anxious
  • Your child learning less and achieving poorer outcomes
  • Your child disrupting the learning of others
  • Parents receiving a fine if children arrive after 9.10am on a regular basis

Illness

If your child is too unwell to attend, school must be notified by 9.10am

Parents must report all absences to the school office via email or by leaving a voice message on 01952 327820.  We ask that parents do not give absence messages to teacher or school staff via Seesaw.

Where an illness lasts longer that one day, we ask parents to inform us daily of their child’s absence.

If school recognises a pattern of absence, we will contact parents to see if any support is needed and in some cases we will ask for medical evidence that the child has been seen by a GP.

Medical/Dental appointments

We ask that wherever possible all appointments are made outside of the school day.  Where this is not possible children should only be absent from school for their appointment and not all day.

For morning appointments, we request that your child attends school in the morning to receive their registration mark at 8.30am and then leaves for their appointment.

For afternoon appointments during school hours, we ask that your child receives their registration mark at 1.00pm and then leaves for their appointment.

Appointments will only be authorised where evidence of the appointment has been seen at the school office.
Without them it will be recorded as unauthorised.

Leave of absence

Leave of absence in term time can only be authorised by the Head Teacher in exceptional circumstances.

All requests will only be considered if parents have completed a Leave in Absence form. This is obtained from the school office. The Head Teacher who will consider each request on an individual basis.

 

 

Attendance Matters

Attendance Matters…

Our attendance target is: 96%

Our overall attendance for January has been:

Our Year-to-Date attendance is: 95.90%

Attendance % per class

Attendance is everyone’s responsibility!

It is our school’s policy that we visit all families that are absent for 3 days whether contact has been made with school or not! This is so we can complete a safe and well check and to see if there is anyway we can support you. We will always come out so please do not be offended. We miss our children when they are not here!

 

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