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Dear Children and Parents/Carers

If your child cycles or comes on a scooter to school please can we remind children not to ride on school grounds or in the turning circle and to wear helmets (head protection) when travelling to and from school.

Many thanks for your support and understanding.

Regards
School Office

 

Dear Parents/Carers,  

 

I would like to update you on our plans to support our pupils with Citizenship this year.  

 

Across the school, we aim to celebrate as many extra curricular and citizenship-focused activities that children complete; and for the last three years we have worked with the Children's University team in Plymouth to achieve this.   

 

This year, we have reviewed the 'offer' from this programme, and we have decided to press pause on using the scheme for now. This is mostly due to the fact that the children would struggle to achieve the awards because of the restrictions of the current pandemic of Covid 19 with their inability to complete many clubs safely.  

 

We do however, still want to celebrate the children's efforts and promote citizenship in our school community; we have found an alternative programme for pupils to follow.  

 

The programme is called the Active Citizenship Award Scheme. This programme is more achievable in light of our current situation and is something they can achieve with school's help, rather than just parental support. Further details of this programme will come later in the month, once staff have attended some training to run the programme successfully.  

 

Please kindly advise your child/ren that Children's University has ended for now, but a new, super exciting scheme will be up and running very soon!  

 

If you require us to update old passports or if your child/ren require any certificates or badges to finalise their Children's University days, then please let the office know and they will be happy to help.  

 

Lastly, I would like to thank all the parents, carers, pupils and staff who have previously supported Children's University; and hope that you are all looking forward to the next challenge of the Active Citizenship Award Scheme instead.  

 

Kindest regards,  

Mrs Jenny Deacon 

Gatehouse Primary Academy wrote to the Queen, in April, to share with her the fantastic hard work and collaboration that has taken place since schools were notified of their closure due to Covid-19 in Dawlish. To express that we are so incredibly proud of our children, for the hard work and resilience they are demonstrating, whether learning at home, or in school.

Today we have received a reply, we wanted to share.

The School's Behaviour Policy has been emailed to parents. It can also be found on the school website, paper copies are available in the office.