Dear Parents and Carers,
It was lovely to see so many of you at this week's curriculum information meetings. Over 200 parents attended in total, many of whom were appreciative of the opportunity to put names to faces, see the classroom and find out more about the year group expectations. If you were unable to attend the meeting, please click on the link HERE to see the relevant year group presentation.
The curriculum information meeting also gave me an opportunity to talk about the way our school is expanding and the opportunities and challenges this brings. Bramhope is known as a popular, successful school with an excellent reputation, and this will remain the case as pupil numbers continue to increase. Alongside that, I am keen to acknowledge and celebrate the fact that our school is changing. We are becoming more diverse and therefore have a real focus on inclusion this year; not only ensuring that children feel they belong here, but also ensuring that they help others feel that they belong here too. We have already made a start on this through our revised RSE curriculum, the introduction of our Equality and Diversity readers and our ToyLikeMe workshop. This year we will be developing our focus on inclusion both inside and outside the classroom.
A big part of school changing is obviously our continued building programme. I would like to reassure parents again that I am trying my best to speed up the works and do not underestimate the significant impact it has on traffic and site access. Hopefully, opening the Tredgold gate at 8:30am will ease congestion next to the road a little and parents and pupils can mingle on the grassed area until 8:40am. The gates onto the school playground will open at 8:40am (teachers are in meetings and so on until then) and a member of staff will continue to supervise children coming into school between 8:40am and 9:00am. After 9:00am, parents should bring their child to the office, and they will be marked late in the register. With regard to volume of traffic and parking, I am afraid there is very little I can do aside from continuing to appeal to parents. I am receiving frequent emails about poor parking and unsafe driving and would urge everyone to abide by our Road Traffic Charter.
This is a voluntary code of conduct. However, if everyone seeks to adhere to it, it will really help make our site and local community a safer and more pleasant place to be: