Littleport Community
Primary School
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Booking OPEN for Half Term holiday club!
Tue 03 May 2016You can now book our Half Term Holiday Club for the upcoming break – Tuesday 31st May to Friday 3rd June from 07.30am to 5.45pm every day. This can be booked and paid for via the School Gateway, or the School Office. If you do not have a School Gateway account, it’s easy to set one up - all you need are your email address and mobile number that school holds on record for you.
Download the app: If you have a smartphone, please download School Gateway from your app store (Android and iPhone). The app shows the same information as the website PLUS it saves the school money when we send you a text message.
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Visit the website: www.schoolgateway.com and click on ‘New User’. You’ll receive a text message with a PIN number. Use this PIN to log into School Gateway.
If you are having trouble logging in, it may be because the school does not have your current email and mobile phone number on record. Please call the school and we’ll update the details on our system.
The half term holiday sessions are as follows:
1st child Additional siblings
Full day 07.30am – 5.45pm £22.00 £19.00
AM Half day session 07.30am – 12.30pm £14.00 £12.00
PM Half day session 12.30pm – 5.45pm £14.00 £12.00
The full day includes breakfast and an afternoon snack. The AM session includes breakfast. The PM session includes an afternoon snack. Those children who will be here for lunchtime will need to bring a packed lunch. All children should bring a drinks bottle to keep them hydrated throughout the day.
The club will be offering various activities, both indoors and outdoors (depending on the weather), such as puzzles, Forest Schools, cooking, games, art and lots more! As always, sessions will be supervised by Littleport Community Primary staff. Please ensure your child has suitable clothing for outdoor activities.
Please be aware, if you are booking using a paper form, you will need to return this with payment in full by Wednesday 25th May 3.15pm – we will not accept any paper bookings after this time. If you are using the School Gateway, you can book sessions a minimum of 5 days in advance – these deadlines are in place to ensure staffing, equipment and supplies (food, drinks etc) are ordered and sufficient to cover the numbers of children attending.
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Online Booking system for Parents Evening
Fri 15 Apr 2016From Monday 18th to Friday 22nd April you will be able to book your appointments online for Parents Evenings being held on Tuesday 26th April and Thursday 28th April
Browse to https://littleportcommunity.parentseveningsystem.co.uk/
Step 1: Login
Please fill out all the details on the page. A confirmation of your appointments will be emailed to you and we may use the phone number to contact you.
Please use your child’s legal forename that matches our records (no abbreviations).
Date of birth – eg: 26/11/2005
Step 2: Select Parents’ Evening
Click the green tick to select the parents’ evening you want to make appointments for.
Step 3: Book Appointments
Click ‘Book’ to make your appointment with the teacher for the time you wish. Repeat this for all the teachers you wish to see.
After you have finished booking all your appointments, click on “click here” in the yellow box at the top of the page to send the confirmation email.
Step 4: Finished
You will receive an email confirmation of your appointments. Please print this out and bring with you to the parents’ evening.
Viewing/Editing/Printing Appointments
You can also view and print your appointments online by clicking the “Appointments” tab. Please bring a print out of your appointment times to the parents’ evening.
You can change your appointments by clicking on “Add/Edit/Delete Appointments”. There is a link at the bottom of the confirmation email which logs you back into the system.
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Health Week - photos in our gallery!
Fri 04 Mar 2016We had a great week learning about healthy bodies and healthy minds. Have a look at our photos in our gallery page to find out what we got up to!
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Discount for additional siblings at out of school clubs
Fri 04 Mar 2016We are pleased to advise that our Stay and Play and Holiday Club are now offering a discount for siblings.
The charges are as follows:
Holiday Club
Full day - 1st child: £22.00 - Additional siblings: £19.00
1/2 day (either AM or PM) - 1st child: £14.00 - Additional siblings: £12.00
Stay and Play (after school)
Full session - 1st child: £8.50 - Additional siblings: £7.50
1/2 session - 1st child: £5.00 - Additional siblings: £4.50
For any queries at all, please speak to the school office.
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Easter Holiday Club opening! Book by Monday 21st March
Wed 02 Mar 2016Great news… HOLIDAY CLUB is starting at Easter
We are pleased to announce we will be running a holiday club over the Easter break.
Our holiday club will run every day (Tuesday 29th March – Friday 1st April, Monday 4th April – Friday 8th April) from 07.30am – 5.45pm. Sessions can be booked as either a full day, or a half day as below:
First child:
Full day 07.30am – 5.45pm £22.00
AM Half day session 07.30am – 12.30pm £14.00
PM Half day session 12.30pm – 5.45pm £14.00
Additional children:
Full day 07.30am – 5.45pm £19.00
AM Half day session 07.30am – 12.30pm £12.00
PM Half day session 12.30pm – 5.45pm £12.00
The full day includes breakfast and an afternoon snack. The AM session includes breakfast. The PM session includes an afternoon snack. Those children who will be here for lunchtime will need to bring a packed lunch. All children should bring a drinks bottle to keep them hydrated throughout the day.
The club will be offering various activities, both indoors and outdoors (depending on the weather), such as puzzles, Forest Schools, games, art and lots more! As always, sessions will be supervised by Littleport Community Primary staff.
To book your child on a session, this can only be done using the paper form (not online at this time) – available from the School Office (or you can download from our school website).
ALL BOOKING FORMS WITH FULL PAYMENT MUST BE HANDED IN BY MONDAY 21ST MARCH 2016. We will not accept any forms without payment, or any forms handed in after this date.
Please feel free to speak to the school office if you have any questions about our new holiday club – we look forward to seeing lots of children there!
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Childcare Vouchers and flexible Stay and Play sessions
Thu 25 Feb 2016A letter will be coming home tonight with all children to advise what we are pleased to announce two beneficial changes to our Breakfast Club and Stay and Play Schemes - firstly, we are now accepting Childcare Vouchers for both clubs, and secondly the Stay and Play club now has 3 session options.
Childcare Vouchers
Most employers who provide Childcare Vouchers do so through a salary sacrifice scheme. This means you agree to reduce your salary by a certain value, and receive Childcare Vouchers to the same value but pay no tax or National Insurance on these vouchers.
To join your employer's Childcare Vouchers scheme you first of all need to complete a salary sacrifice agreement. Your employer will give you directions on how to do this. After your agreement has been submitted to your employer, they will reduce your salary by the requested amount and arrange for vouchers to be provided to you.
For information about if the Childcare Voucher scheme is right for you, please visit: www.gov.uk/childcare-vouchers-better-off-calculator.
If you currently claim tax credits, please contact your local tax office to discuss (as each case is individual we cannot advise on whether paying for childcare will affect your entitlement).
Stay and Play flexible sessions
To offer more flexible after school care, there are now three sessions available to you:
The full session – 3.15pm – 5.45pm - £8.50
First session – this is a shorter session, from 3.15pm – 4.30pm and the charge is £5.00
Second session – from 4.15pm – 5.45pm and the charge is £5.00. This session is useful for parents whose children attend other after school activities, such as All4Sports, or a school run club.
Sessions can be booked via the School Gateway (please make sure the School Office have your correct email address to ensure you can create an account) at www.schoolgateway.com or via the paper based form which you can pick up from the leaflet holders to the left of the school office (or just ask in the office).
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Ely Standard story - police crack down on parents parking
Fri 05 Feb 2016 -
Year 2 and Year 6 SATs Presentation
Fri 05 Feb 2016The SATs presentations, which were shown at the Parents Meetings this week, are now available to view as follows:
Year 2 - Go to 'Pupils, Year Group' and then select Finches
Year 6 - Go to 'Pupils, Year Group' and then select Kestrels
The videos are at the end of the page.
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Breakfast Club and Stay and Play - opening on 1st February 2016
Mon 01 Feb 2016It's very exciting news that LCPS will be running their own Breakfast Club and Stay and Play from 1st February 2016.
Breakfast Club runs Monday to Friday, term time only, from 07.30am until 08.45am. Stay and Play will be after school, from 3.15pm until 5.45pm, again term time only.
At both clubs children will be offered different activities as well as a healthy food choice, such as cereal, toast or fruit.
To book a session, the easiest way is via the School Gateway app where you can select the sessions you want and pay as you go. Alternatively, you can complete a paper form (please see the School Office) and then we will add the sessions to the online system for you.
For all terms and conditions of our clubs, please click here: http://www.littleport.cambs.sch.uk/breakfaststay-and-play-clubs/ All forms are available from the School Office, so please just ask and we will be happy to help.
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BBC Cambs Christmas Song
Wed 16 Dec 2015Dotty McLeod from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire came to visit us earlier in the week and filmed some of our children for their Christmas song...
The video is now up on their Facebook page – you can take a look at http://on.fb.me/1Yh9r9z.
We hope you like it! The children are fantastic!