From the Office
School closure today
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PTA Annual General Meeting - all welcome
**Tuesday 8 March - Junior Boys mezzanine**
Arrivals for coffee from 8.30am. The meeting will take place from 9.15am to 10.15am.
Holiday Clubs next week - for Years 1-6
Our holiday clubs are running for Years 1 - 6 next week and are open to all Claires Court children as well as children from other schools. There are a few spaces for Years 5-8 (Kool Extra) on our Arts and Crafts club too running 21-23 February. If you would like to book, please do so here.
A parents & guardians' update session on the school's approach to Relationship & Sex Education - Google MEET 7pm Tuesday 8 March 2022
As parents will recall from our various announcements with regards to our pastoral education so far this year, we have been updating our approach to include the major on-line tools of JIGSAW (PSHE) and Careers (Unifrog). As a consequence, we have now updated our written content for the PSHE programme published in our various year group curriculum guides. We have taken some specific actions with regards to the compulsory element of Relationship & Sex Education (RSE), to ensure that those components of the programme supported by our school nurses in their work are clearly signposted.
As a consequence, we are holding a whole school video conference for parents and guardians on Tuesday evening, 8 March from 7pm, Entitled Claires Court’s approach to Relationship & Sex Education, we will be joined by Marilyn Hawes, one of our independent advisory consultants whose campaign ‘Freedom from Abuse’ sees her lead the country’s thinking in this regards. Marilyn was also awarded “Most inspirational Woman of the year 2017” for her work in this field“, where she passionately believes victims need not make their childhood abuse a life sentence –with appropriate therapy and support systems they can thrive - not merely survive!
www.freedom-abuse.org
Evening schedule
7.00pm Introductions by two of our headteachers; Stephanie Rogers (Sixth Form) and Leanne Kirby (Juniors).
7.10pm Marilyn Hawes outlines the current challenges for schools and families
7.30pm Questions
7.40pm Secondary Deputy Head Pastorals Huw Buckle and Victoria Ruddick speak about how RSE fits into the secondary schedule
7.50pm SRN Nicola Bose explains how, in practice, she teaches a Year 7 lesson
8.00pm Further Q&A
8.15pm Final words and thank - James Wilding
The event will be recorded and made available on the school website.
Reminders:
Please bring a coat every day with hats, scarves and mittens if required
We like to promote independence in the children and therefore could we ask that the children have shoes with velcro or a zip which they can put on and take off themselves
Please provide a water bottle and ensure they are named
Our uniform is navy bottoms, our blue school polo top and school burgundy jumper. We have some second hand jumpers if you would like to buy one which are £3
NURSERY'S WORDS LENT WEEK 6
