The Week Ahead weekly newsletter

This week we have received some additional guidance re the teachers’ standards of ethics and behaviour, both within and outside of school. There is a list for staff, and some of this impacts parents:
Staff should never contact pupils or parents from their personal mobile phone or give their mobile number to pupils or parents. If staff must contact parents from home, they will do so by school email and not personal phones.

If staff need to make telephone contact with a pupil or parent, they must use the school telephone.

There is additional guidance about professional distance on on social media

Staff should not request or accept friends from school parents unless they are friends in the real world. We realise that many parents in our community do have friendships with staff - that's OK!

Staff should never add school pupils before they're 18 years old

Please make sure you help us by respecting these rules around boundaries and confidentiality

Occasionally staff will share a number for emergencies - e.g school trips and residentials. We would ask you to delete numbers after the event and only use them whilst the trip is taking place

Start of the day

We usually have someone on gate duty at 8:45am Before this staff are in meetings and are not available to supervise. Please do not leave your children before 8:45.

If it is wet, please do not send children into the building before 8:45am - there is nobody available to look after them.

The bell rings at 8:55am, when school starts. ALL children should enter school through either the Early Years outside entrance, the AP entrance or the school playground, not the main entrance.

The main entrance is for emergencies, and for people waiting for meetings. It is not the main way into school. Please make sure you are prompt so children can enter school with their peers, through the appropriate routes.

End of the day
School ends at 3:30pm and all children should be collected promptly. Please let us know if you are held up, as children get anxious when they have to wait after school.

School Lunches

Mrs Trice Parkin is doing an amazing job with school lunches, but is finding a number of parents are forgetting to pay and order, yet their children turn up each day expecting her to provide lunch. She buys ingredients according to weekly order numbers, which keeps the price affordable and keeps waste to a minimum.

Please make sure you top up your MIS account and order by Sunday evening each week. If a child turns up who has not ordered, they will not be served lunch.

If your account is not working for some reason, please contact the office staff who will help you sort it out.

Please DO NOT add trip money to your MIS account.

Labelling clothes
You will have received an email about our mountain of lost property - all un named or containing names of unknown people. There are eleven coats, several large school jumpers, thirteen black hoodies - all without names and all similar sizes. Please please please label your child's clothes - then when we find them strewn around school we can return them.

As a school we have decided to close our HSBC bank account, and have opened a new account with the Cooperative Bank.

The new account details are as follows:

Bradford Christian School

Sort code 08-92-99

Account no 63154896

As our HSBC account will be permanently closed in January,  we would be grateful if you would arrange to change your fee payment to the new account as soon as possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Our Music teacher, Mrs Honore is looking for instrument donations for our expanding music department. Currently, we are in need of anything from the brass family and some well kept glockenspiels. Any other instruments are welcome for parents to donate. Please bring anything you would like to donate to the school office. 

Thank you in advance.

Mrs Wells is extending the second use uniform to include coats for those who need them. If you have unused coats and in good condition that you can donate to this, please hand into the office or email suzannewells@bxs.org.uk

There is a WhatsApp group for parents in primary and middle school. If you would like to be added to the group, please message Rachel Baxfield on 07568 074586. Thank you