The Week Ahead weekly newsletter

Government guidelines view attendance below 90% as Persistent absence, which must, by law, be reported to the Local Authority's Education Welfare Officer. Persistent absence includes absences due to holidays and illness as well as unauthorised absence.

The Education Act 2004 states that it is the responsibility of the parent/carer to ensure their child attends school regularly and on time. 

At BCS we want to avoid this. Our school mental well being lead, Mrs Walker, would like to work with you and support you in bringing your child to school regularly. Mrs Walker works closely with our leadership team, the school office team and the Head Teacher so we can all be aware of any issues you may be facing in getting your child to school.    

mrswalker@bxs.org.uk

We are always willing to listen to parents who are experiencing difficulties with attendance and will be happy to work with you to improve your child's attendance.

If you are worried about your child's health, there is lots of useful information on the West Yorkshire Healthier Together website, which can be accessed via the following link:  https://wyhealthiertogether.nhs.uk/parentscarers

Parents have been emailed information regarding fees. Please check your emails for these. If you have not received an email with information about fees, please let the office know.

office@bxs.org.uk

Thanks to all who filled out the uniform questionnaire.
The results showed clearly that:
95% parents want to keep uniform with no real changes
92% parents like the change from primary to middle to upper
90% parents like PE day uniform, though some would like it to be stricter and more modest
Most like the logo on the blazer or jumper, but not the T shirts or polos

Some parents would like a summer uniform
M and S is expensive for the quality
Logos make uniform expensive
Most would like second hand uniform
Some parents made comments about the need for modesty in terms of skirt length, PE attire, and own clothes days

We are moving to partner with a different uniform provider in the future, but they will keep the same uniform for us. They are owned by Tesco but source from other places myclothing.com More details will follow.

We are introducing an optional summer uniform across school, which will be summer dresses up to year 4, and from year 5 will be grey or black school shorts, trousers or skirts with a white shirt or polo shirt (no ties, jumpers or blazers necessary) This will be an option from April to July. Obviously on cooler summer days children can still wear jumpers and blazers.

We do run a second hand option. Suzanne Wells, one of our parents, collects clean used uniform and has regular stalls, the main one being at primary sports day in the summer. She does have a stock of second hand items.

We are tightening up the PE uniform, so it is a plain white T shirt, plain black joggers or sports leggings, and a plain black sweatshirt or school hoodie (Middle school onwards) Fashion leggings are not appropriate school wear.

Skirts should be knee length

We do require a logo on blazers and prefer them on the blue school jumpers, but do not require them on polo shirts, T shirts, fleeces, PE sweatshirts, or other uniform items.

The full updated policy will be shared before the Easter holiday.