Hordle CE (VA) Primary School & Nursery Parent Portal

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Summer Term 1 - Week 3 - Friday 3rd May 2024

Attendance Guide

What to do if your child is absent

Please can we remind parents/guardians of our schools absence procedures:

Contact us as soon as possible (and before 9.30am at the latest) on the first day of absence; telephone (via the schools absence line), email or visit the school office
Advise us on the nature of your child’s absence. Please note that in the event of sickness and/or diarrhoea, the exclusion period is 48 hours since the last bout of illness
Update the school daily on subsequent days absence unless advised otherwise.

If your child is absent and we have not heard from you by 9.30am at the latest, we will telephone you and any other contacts that have been provided to us to confirm your child’s whereabouts. This is because we have a safeguarding duty to ensure your child’s safety as well as their regular school attendance. A child not attending school is considered a safeguarding matter. This is why information about the cause of any absence is always required.

Please note, if no reason for absence is received before 12pm, it is a safeguarding requirement for us to visit the family home to ascertain your child’s wellbeing.

What to do if my child is late

If you think your child will be arriving late at school please can we remind parents/guardians of our school late arrival procedures:

Contact us as soon as possible (and before 9.30am at the latest); telephone (via the schools absence line), email or visit the school office
Advise us on the nature of your child’s late arrival and a choice of lunch for the day, please note lunch orders have to be placed by 9:30am for the kitchen to have enough preparation time
Sign in at the front office at the time of arrival (registers in the classrooms are closed after 9am)

Parents are unable to escort their child to the classroom if they arrive once the gates are closed.

Holiday in Term Time?

Parents are strongly advised by the Government and Local Authority to avoid taking children out of school in term time because of the disruption it causes to their education.

We ask that if parents/guardians need to take children out of school, to please notify the school of all planned absences by completing an absence request form. Whilst your request may not be authorised, it will mean that we know not to worry about your child's welfare and they will not be treated as a missing child.

Please note, if your child has unauthorised absences for 10 sessions (1 day is 2 sessions) or more in a 100 session period, you will be liable to a fixed penalty notice and a fine.

More information can be found here on the Gov website.

If you have any queries, please speak to the school office.

If your child will not be attending a booked Hub Club or Den Booking

We understand that plans can change last minute. If this is the case but your child is meant to be attending a Hub Club or Den, please ensure you inform the office that they will not be attending. You can do this by either visiting the reception, calling us on 01425 611657 or emailing adminoffice@hordle.hants.sch.uk.

If we have a child unaccounted for at the end of the day, we will start procedures as per our Missing Child Policy, which may result in us making a 999 call and reporting the child missing and providing all personal details of the pupil concerned. We will continue to carry out all other missing child procedures as per our policy, in addition to the above, which includes sweeps of school, local area and all known contacts and possible friendships.

For this reason, and in order that we do not unnecessarily waste police time, it is absolutely VITAL that you also tell us if there is a change in pick up procedures or if your child is not going to attend a club that they would usually be expected to attend.

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Please help us to ensure the safeguarding of all children in our care.

School Photos

Children will be coming home today with their recent Class Photo, Choir Photo and Year 6 Leavers Photo proofs.

Please note, you will need to place your order online, directly on the Cardwell & Simons website by Monday 13th May in order to receive free delivery to the school. Late orders after this date will incur a delivery charge.

If any families require a second copy, please let the office team know.

Food Bank Donations

On Monday 20th May, Lower Juniors will be participating in their charity awareness day.

This year, Team Hazel have chosen to support Lymington New Forest Basic's Food Bank. They would like to ask the wonderful parents/guardians of the school to please bring in a small donation for the Food Bank.

These can be dropped off either in Team Hazel or the Front Office on Monday 20th May.

Please follow the link below to see what the Basic's Bank urgently requires:

Items Urgently Needed

Thank you in advance for your support.

Lost Property

We have a large volume of jumpers/hoodies and other school uniform in our lost property bin, which are unfortunately either unnamed or names are illegible.

Please may we ask parents/guardians to have a look through the lost property bin to double check for any of your lost items.

Please may we also encourage parents to name all uniform so that we are able to reunite lost items with children promptly.

Tick Awareness

It is the season for Ticks! Please click on this useful Government guidance here, for more information on what to look for and how to remove them safely.

Equality Survey

As a school we are constantly striving to do our best for all pupils and to support their parents/carers whenever possible. This includes our duty under the Equality Legislation.

To help us do better, we are consulting with all our families in an effort to identify those pupils who belong to particular religious, cultural or ethnic groups and may therefore require further adaptation to enable them to enjoy full access to school life.

Please click below to complete a short survey.

Equality Survey

Community Request

A previous Hordle parent is currently working on a charity project and has asked if we can put out a request.

Please can we ask for any small glass jars (e.g. paste jars or small condiment jars such as mustard jars or mint sauce jars, not jam jars as these are too large) to be dropped in to school reception.

As requested by the charity project, please may we ask for jars to be washed and de-labelled, if possible.

Thank you.

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03 May 2024

Team Deerleap's Charity Day in Aid of 'Ambitious About Autism'

This week ,Team Deerleap has been learning all about their class charity, 'Ambitious About Autism'.

02 May 2024

THE Greening Campaign

On Tuesday 30th April, several of our children were invited to attend THE (Tiptoe, Hordle & Everton) Greening Campaign meeting, organised by Hordle Parish Council. The children had entered a recent competition to create a poster or poem to highlight the current issues surroundi...

30 Apr 2024

Year 3 & Year 4 After School Art Club Try 'Kandinksy'

At Year 3 and Year 4 afterschool Art Club, the children have been inspired by the abstract artist, Kandinsky who used lots of shapes and lines in his work.

30 Apr 2024

Team Hazel's Information Pages

Team Hazel have been working hard on writing their animal fact pages. They have been learning techniques to engage the reader.

29 Apr 2024

Good Luck Mrs B!

We've made our pitch to the judges. Now it's up to the National Teaching Awards panel to decide.

29 Apr 2024

Team Wilverley's Written Contrasting Atmospheres

Team Wilverley have been working hard to create contrasting atmospheres in their writing.

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02 May 2024

Year 3 & Year 4 Cross Country Competition

Some of our Year 3 and Year 4 children enjoyed a fabulous afternoon in the sunshine at the cross country. Coach Marden and Coach Dobson are so proud of every runner who competed in the tough course.

25 Apr 2024

New Forest Juniors Athletic Club - Quadkids Competition

Year Four and Five pupils enjoyed a Quad Kids competition at Noadswood School yesterday. They competed against 9 other schools in sprints, the vortex and the long jump.

24 Apr 2024

KS1 Quicksticks Festival

Yesterday, Team Hordle hosted a KS1 Quicksticks festival with the New Forest School Sports Partnership and Young sports leaders from Arnewood school. As well as Team Hordle, we welcomed 9 other local schools for a fun afternoon of Quicksticks. Each team participated in various statio...