Good afternoon all. It has been brought to my attention the increasing number of parents/carers coming into school to pick up their child/children early at the end of the day. This is causing a huge amount of disruption and having an impact on the pupils’ learning. I would like to remind all parents/carers that the school day finishes at 3:15pm, not before. 

The only time parents/carers should need to pick up early is for a pre-arranged appointment or if you have previously agreed an early pick up with a member of the Senior Leadership Team. For medical appointments, you must contact the school before lunchtime to let them know. The school office will be asking parents/carers for medical evidence of appointments. 

More and more parents/carers are coming onto the school site, sitting on the playground and in the foyer area, waiting to pick the children up; sometimes as early as 2:45pm. We cannot have this happen anymore, sorry. We have lessons taking place outside at this time and it is a safeguarding issue having the gates open and unsupervised adults on site. As a result, we will be changing the times our gates open to make the school site a safer place for your children.

From tomorrow, our gates will open at 3:10pm. Our caretaker will open the side gates at 3:10pm once all children have  returned to class from being outside. At this point, parents/carers will be allowed to come onto our site, ready to collect their children. There should be no parent/carer onsite before 3:10pm (unless you have previously agreed with school to collect early). Please do not turn up on the day without pre-arranging an early pick up. Please do not buzz the office and ask to be let in before 3:10pm unless you have pre-arranged an early pick up.

In the coming weeks we will also be changing the way parents/carers approach the teachers/classroom doors to collect their child/children – adding a safer, more organised system. We will communicate this with you all shortly. 

I hope that you understand why we have put these measures in place. Keeping the children safe is our number one priority.

Thank you for your support and cooperation.

Mr Leach

Headteacher