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Parents evening Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd, please check emails for login for appointments.

Please look in 'letters' for an update on the new Government guidance. 

Please see 'letters' for details for Christmas movie night on Wednesday 8th December 2021 at 3pm.

Dear Parents of Pupils at Hillhouse C of E Primary School

 

Consultation on the proposed expansion of Hillhouse C of E Primary School

 

The Governing Body of Hillhouse C of E Primary School has taken the decision to consult on a proposal to expand from a 1.5 form entry school to a 2 form entry school i.e. to increase the Published Admission Number from 45 to 60 pupil places per annum.

 

A statutory process must be followed when consulting on such a significant change to a school.  It is important that all interested parties are made aware of the proposal and have an opportunity to ask questions and make comments.

 

Full details of the proposal are contained within a consultation document which can be viewed on the School’s website www.hillhouse.essex.sch.uk from 27 September 2021.

 

Any person may make comments on the proposal by sending them by e-mail to

consultation@hillhouse.efspt.org

or by letter to myself or Mrs E Anderson, Chair of Governors c/o the School Office.

 

If you require a paper copy of the consultation document you may obtain one by contacting the School Office.

 

The consultation process will run from 27 September 2021 to 8 November 2021.

 

Please find additional information under Parents/letters. 

Many thanks

We are writing to you to invite you to stand for election as a Parent Governor, or nominate another parent to do so.  Please find the Nomination Letter and Form under Parents - Letters

 

Sports day:

I am hoping that is the restrictions are lifted further on the 21st of June we will be able to hold sports days with spectators. The minimise the number of visitors to site this year we will run 3 bubble sports days. 

 

Reception and KS1 will be Tuesday 13th 1.30-3pm. Years 5 and 6 will be Thursday 15th 9.30-11am. Years 3 and 4 will be Friday 16th 1.30-3pm   Currently I will limit the events to two adults per family, but I am hoping I can adapt this on the 21st. 

 

http://https://pps.lgfl.org.uk/

 

Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey.  I was so pleased to receive 125 responses.

Thank you for all the positive comments and for some good ideas. As a school, I am proud of the quality and quantity of the varied offers of work we are providing. It was lovely to hear so many of you agree.

 

 

I realised I should have put the children’s name option on the questionnaire (which I did later on). For the parents who feel there is not enough work, please email me directly and I will support you. If you feel your child has too much work, please contact their teacher to help you prioritise what work would be most beneficial to complete.

 

Live lessons

15 people requested more live lessons. We will not be increasing our live offer due to the numbers of children accessing it. Although, Swans and Reception are doing really well. Some families prefer to work via the recorded links and paper copies, which is fine, but the teachers have to plan and prepare for all three options as well as monitoring emails, welfare phone calls, Facebook and mark the work that is submitted.

 

 

We will however, be offering additional one off lives, such as Science. Please look out for these dates and times.

Interaction with the school. In response to some parents saying their child is missing interaction with friends and adults from school, we have sent out an invitation to all children to attend two 1-1 reading sessions with a teaching assistant. They can read their book and have a catch up. If you missed this email, they are saved on the website under your child’s class page. We are also going to be organising a less formal live meeting for the children to catch up with their friends the week before half term.

Free choice Friday afternoons. 120/125 said yes to this. This came about because I am worried about the screen time children are having, parents needing some leeway for catching up with work or some physical/ creative time. Teachers are incorporating this into the weekly planning.

Sharing achievement. A parent suggested it would be lovely for the children to be able to share their other achievements once a week on just a plain assignment.  This is a lovely idea and Mrs Saunders has set the children up in their classwork page a section called January/February 2021 sharing space. The children can upload and share non-classwork related things they are proud of, for us to see. 

You Tube support videos

Mrs Saunders will be making some more help videos. Please keep an eye on our channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeKHl_Sbgh86ABebq0-D4PQ

Thank you for your continued support and patience whilst we iron out technical teething problems. Please remember you are able to change reading books and collect paper work packs on Mondays 9am -3pm.  If you need support, please contact us via google classrooms or email absence@hillhouse.essex.sch.uk

 

Stay safe

Miss Willcox

 

 

This is an update of the ‘a little extra help’ document that was co-produced between ECC, Essex Family Forum and Snap just before Christmas.

 

The information has been updated and some extra bits have been added, that are particularly relevant as we now enter another lockdown.

 

The links to the document are here:

 

PowerPoint Presentation (essexlocaloffer.org.uk)

 

http://www.essexlocaloffer.org.uk/category/coronavirus/

 

Take care and remember we are here to support you.

Don't forget to look at our Hillhouse Youtube channel for our Harvest Festival offerings, also under Children - Hillhouse Youtube