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World Book Day

Fri 26 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

We will be delaying our World Book Day celebrations by one week. This will allow all of our children to take part in the activities once school fully reopens on the 8th March. Our World Book Day activities will take place on Friday12th March. This will be a non-uniform day and the children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite book characters!

Goodbye and good luck Mrs Creasey!

Fri 26 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

At Haggonfields Primary School, every member of our staff team is valued. We were sad to say goodbye to our wonderful midday supervisor, Mrs Creasey today. At the end of lunchtime, we held a presentation in the school playground. We presented Mrs Creasey with a card, flowers and a gift to thank her for her contribution to our school. We would like to wish her 'good luck' in her next adventure!

Full School Reopening Update

Tue 23 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

Following the government announcement yesterday, we will be welcoming all pupils back to school on Monday 8th March.

If you child requires a paid school dinner, please order via the school office. FSM and UFSM school dinners will be provided as usual. The latest menus can be found in the 'Parents & Carers' section of the website.

Community Consultation Feedback Newsletter

Tue 16 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

Community Consultation Feedback Newsletter North Worksop Children’s Centre - Rhodesia

What? Nottinghamshire County Council’s (NCC) Early Childhood Service carried out a community consultation to gather views from local families and other interested people on possible changes to the use of the Children’s Centre Service building in Rhodesia.

The proposed change is for Haggonfields Primary& Nursery School, (part of the Southwell and Nottingham Multi Academy Trust) to take over the running of the building, so that more local children and their families can regularly use it.

Why? The Children’s Centre Service has changed, with most of the service now delivered in a family’s home or online. More children from aged 2 - 4 years are able to go to early years settings due to increases in childcare funding, so fewer group activities sessions are needed.

This means that some of our buildings are rarely used, so if a better use for them can be found, such as using them for childcare or handing them to the local school, we have looked at doing this. Whenever any changes to the Children’s Centre Service properties are considered, the County Council have a “duty to consult” with local communities to find out their views.

When and Where? The consultation took place on the Council’s online Consultation Hub for 6 weeks, from 7th December 2020 to 18th January 2021. North Worksop: Rhodesia Children’s Centre - Nottinghamshire County Council - Citizen Space.

Due to Covid, we could not carry out any face to face sessions, so we extended the consultation timescale from 2 to 6 weeks and the school helped us publicise it on their website, under both the “News” section and setting up a separate page with more information. https://www.haggonfields.co.uk/childrens-centreconsultation/. Haggonfields also printed out the questionnaire for parents who wanted to complete a paper copy.

The Children’s Centre Service contacted local families who were registered with them, to give them the link to the consultation and offer to print off a questionnaire to fill in, if they did not want to use the online survey. One of the CCS team is also a Rhodesia parent, so she also publicised the link to the consultation through informal networks including a local Facebook page (rather than the district wide CCS page).

The CCS team also advised the Healthy Families Team and the Midwifery Service, asking them to complete the questionnaire and promote to local families. Early Childhood Services also contacted local district and county councillors and sent it to the other services who use the building for their views.

We received ONE response via the online survey, from a local mum, and THREE responses via paper copies of the questionnaire – TOTAL OF 4 – all of which were from parents living locally, with at least one child under 5 years old, with some of the families also having over 5s too. There were no responses to the questionnaire from any professionals working in the area or community leaders, although several councillors did contact us by email.

All 4 (100%) agreed with the proposal to transfer the running of the Children’s Centre building to Haggonfields Primary and said that if the school were to take over the building and offer free early years sessions, their child would use it.

Three of the parents (75%) felt that Children’s Centre Services could be delivered in a variety of community buildings and family homes, with one (25%) not responding to that question.

Three parents (75%) felt that services could be delivered online (e.g. via ZOOM), with one of the parents saying, “I believe that most children’s services should be face to face where possible”. One parent did not respond to this question.

What next? Subject to Committee approval, we plan to continue to work with Haggonfields Primary School to transfer the building to them, ready for September 2021.

The Children’s Centre Service will continue from the other Children’s Centre buildings in Worksop at Gateford, Manton and Prospect Kilton along with services such as one to one Family Support, Let’s Play and Home Talk continuing to be offered in family homes, throughout the week. Due to Covid, we are also offering services virtually via ZOOM and TEAMS and we are putting lots of great activities on line via the Bassetlaw Children’s Centre Service Facebook page and on Notts Help Yourself at www.nottshelpyourself.org.uk/supportingyouandyourchild

For more information, please contact: Una Daniel, Children’s Centre Co-ordinator tel: 0115 9773758 email: una.daniel@nottscc.gov.uk or Diane Tinklin, Early Childhood Commissioning & Projects Manager tel: 0115 804 1221 email: diane.tinklin@nottscc.gov.uk

Half Term

Fri 12 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

Just a reminder that it is half term next week.

School is closed for an INSET Day on Monday 22nd February.

We look forward to seeing our children who have already been allocated a school place on Tuesday 23rd February.

Parent Survey - Remote Learning

Thu 11 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

We recently sent our parents & carers a link to an online survey via The School App. We are keen to gather feedback about our remote learning provision. Just a reminder that the survey closes on Monday 22nd February at 3:30pm!

Spring Term 2 Menus

Wed 10 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

Our kitchen will be serving a new menu after half term. There will be two menus on rotation throughout the term. The week 2 menu starts w/b: 22nd February. The menus are available in the 'Parent & Carer' section of the website.

Please contact the school office if you would like your child to have a hot school dinner.

Snow!

Tue 02 Feb 2021 Mrs H-S

At Haggonfields Primary School, we believe in looking for opportunities to take learning outside of the classroom...today was no exception. The snow provided us with the chance to get outside and get creative! This enrichment activity encouraged curiosity, problem solving and collaboration as the children worked together to build snowmen and snow 'cubes'! Some of the children investigated the different tracks made in the snow by people, cars and animals and discussed the patterns that were left.