A nutritious breakfast is the best way to start the day, preparing children for their day ahead, giving them the energy they need to keep going until morning break snack time or even lunchtime for those who do not have a playtime snack.

We will be doing some work about breakfast choices in some classes in school as we are finding that some children either do not have breakfast at all, or are having high sugar content breakfasts leading them to have spikes in their concentration and learning attitudes throughout the morning.

We can offer free breakfast club to pupils eligible for income based free school meals, and we are always willing to offer fruit or toast to pupils who occasionally come in without breakfast at home – we want pupils to feel safe and secure to learn, they can’t do this if they are hungry.

Please see Mrs Lyall to enquire about Breakfast Club places, the support we can offer is linked to our Pupil Premium funding spending offer, it is not in relation to publicised free breakfast clubs for schools. We are not part of this government led initiative as yet, as we do not qualify under the current criteria.

Reminders – playtime snacks are provided for classes R, 1 & 2 via the national fruit scheme. Children in other classes can bring a piece of fruit to eat at playtime. Fruit only please, no nuts or seeds due to allergens.

Some websites with breakfast ideas: 

Healthy breakfast ideas – Healthier Families – NHS

Healthy breakfasts for kids

20 breakfast ideas for kids | Good Food

We would like your feedback about our school lunches. At the moment we are asking our children for feedback, but we will also reach out to parents before Christmas. Please see a member of school staff if you would like to provide immediate feedback.

We are seeing a change in the pattern of packed lunch choices which is causing us to reflect upon our staple choices. For example, this week on roast dinner day over 60 pupils had a packed lunch instead of a school dinner and a further 20 children chose to have a school prepared sandwich, this is considerably more than on other days when we serve sausage or pizza or similar. Highlighting that children and families are choosing to not to eat the more traditional, arguably more nutritious food, leaving us to wonder why this could be. The roast dinner day is our most expensive serving day due to the high cost of the meat, so we will be looking at the menu to see how we can weigh up preferred meals with nutritional content and costings. This is tricky! But we need to look at this going forwards to ensure value in our kitchen in addition to being responsive to the needs of our community.

Your thoughts would be greatly welcomed about this matter.

A polite reminder that school uniform should be worn in school daily as per our policy and procedures. Leggings are not part of school uniform and should not be worn. School shoes should be worn, not trainers or boots. Thank you for your cooperation with this and respect for our school procedures.

Link to our policies and procedures page

A polite reminder that pupils need coats and items to keep them warm during playtimes and lunchtimes as we always aim to be outside as much as is possible, even in the showery winter months. Please can parents/carers ensure that all items are named. Thank you.

Well done to everyone who received awards or shoutouts this week, we are very proud of you.

Today we celebrated reading in our celebration assembly, with praise for lots of children for their reading at home and reading throughout the curriculum in school.

• Class R – Ada
• Class 1 – Phoebe
• Class 2 – Jade
• Class 3 – Sybil
• Class 4 – Scarlett J
• Class 5 – Charlotte
• Class 6 – Maeve

Congratulations to all our chosen Book Worms, your reading at home and school was excellent this week.

Remember to keep up those good reading habits.