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Christmas stars

Tue 30 Nov 2021 Mr Youngman

Dear parent(s)/carer)s),

The Kirkby Collaborative of Schools are working together to create Kirkby Christmas Stars. Following the success of the activity we held last year we will be doing the same this year.

This week, to mark the start of the festive period, every child in each of our schools will create a Christmas star to hang in a front window of your home, to provide a message to the community. The star symbolises a Kirkby community togetherness and unity at Christmas, a way of showing you are thinking about others – and particularly as we face the challenges of our second pandemic Christmas.

You will also soon be able to see a Kirkby Collaborative display of stars, representing all 14 schools, in the windows of the old Pound Bakery site on St Chad’s Parade.

Of course, you don’t need to stop at one star – you and your children could create more stars to put in the front window of your home, or those of neighbours this Christmas.

We can all bring the Kirkby community together this Christmas, through a display of stars in our schools, homes and in the town centre.

Our thanks to the Tower Hill and Shevington Together group for providing the inspiration.

Steve Dixon

Development Manager

Kirkby Collaborative of Schools

Parent hub meeting

Thu 11 Nov 2021 Mr Youngman

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to have secured some funding to create a Parent Hub in school.

We hope that this hub will provide parents with a place to meet, access training and offer a range of free services to support parents and carers.

However, it is important that we hear your views on the kind of training and services that you would like from your parent hub.

We would like to invite parents, carers and grandparents to a coffee morning on Wednesday 17^th November at 8.50 am (approximately 1 hour) in the School Hall.

For all who attend there will be a free prize draw and Bingo!!

To ensure that we can hold the meeting safely, with the necessary Covid restrictions in place, we need to know how many will attend. Therefore, please complete the slip below and return it to school by Tuesday 16^th November.

If you are unable to attend but would like to share your views, please email the school or speak to a member of staff at the start or end of the day.

I look forward to hearing your suggestions and working in partnership on this exciting project.

Yours sincerely,

Miss J A Withey

Headteacher

OFSTED inspection

Tue 02 Nov 2021 Mr Youngman

Dear parent or carer

Inspection of Eastcroft Park School by Ofsted

We have just told your child's school that we will inspect it on 03 November 2021. The lead inspector will be Adam Sproston, HMI. We are writing to you because we would like to know what you think about the school. Please take a few minutes to read the leaflet that came with this letter. It explains why we inspect schools and what happens during an inspection.

Your views about the school are important to us

If you are a registered parent or carer of a pupil at the school (including pupils on sick leave or who are temporarily excluded), you can tell us your views about the school by completing Ofsted's online survey, Ofsted Parent View, at: www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk

Ofsted Parent View asks for your opinion on some aspects of your child's school, including the progress made by your child, the quality of teaching, how the school deals with bullying and poor behaviour. It also provides a free text box for you to make additional comments, if you wish. The inspectors will use the online survey responses when inspecting your child's school.

Written comments can also be sent to the school in a sealed envelope, marked confidential and addressed to the inspection team.

To register your views, you will need to provide your email address, which will be held securely.

It will not be used for any purpose other than providing access to the online survey. Neither schools nor Ofsted will have access to any email addresses.

Please complete the online survey by 11am on 03 November 2021 as this will give the inspection team more time to consider your views. However, we will consider all online responses that are completed during the inspection, although the free text box facility will not be available after noon on 04 November 2021.

Speaking to an inspector

If you are unable to complete the online survey, it may be possible to speak to an inspector during the inspection, for instance at the start of the school day, or to pass on messages to the inspectors if you are unable to speak to them in person. Inspection administrators will be happy to make the necessary arrangements. If concerns are raised about child protection, we may have to pass the information we receive to social services or the police. You can contact the administrators on . Inspectors will be pleased to receive your comments, but cannot deal with complaints about individual pupils or settle disputes between you and the school.

Privacy notice

During the inspection, the inspectors will collect information about children at the school by talking to them, looking at school documents, responses to the pupil survey where appropriate, and observing the everyday life at the school. In most cases, we do not record names. However, some of the information may make it possible to identify a particular child. Ofsted uses this information to prepare its report and for the purposes set out in its privacy policy. Ofsted will not publish any information that identifies a child in the report.

More information is available in Ofsted's privacy notice:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/ofsted-privacy-notices/schools-ofsted-privacy-notice#parent-school

The contact details for Ofsted's Data Protection Officer are as follows.

Email:

informationrequest@ofsted.gov.uk

Post:

Information management team

Ofsted

2 Rivergate

Temple Quay

Bristol

BS1 6EH