EYFS trip to West Lodge Farm

EYFS trip to West Lodge Farm

Dear Parents and Carers,

As part of our curriculum work on growing and the world around us, we have organised a trip to West Lodge Farm for the children to provide hands-on learning and an experience of life on a working farm.

Details:

Day and Date: Thursday 19th March

Timings: Coach to depart at 9.15am. Coach to arrive back at EBPS at 3.00pm (drop off and collection as usual).

Special clothing / items required: Suitable footwear (trainers), appropriate bottoms (leggings or joggers), school polo shirt / jumper, sun hats if the weather is warm and a raincoat.

Permission

Permission is required for this trip. Please use Parentmail to give your permission for your child to attend / participate.

The trip has been thoroughly planned and carefully risk assessed by the trip leader, our Educational Visits Coordinator and by Miss Lally. A copy of the risk assessment is available upon request.

Please note: by consenting to your child attending the trip you are consenting to them travelling by coach.

Voluntary Contributions

This trip is to enhance our curriculum and we are relying on parental contributions to enable to trip / experience to take place. We would appreciate you paying a voluntary donation of £15.10 to cover the cost of this trip.

Please note, if insufficient voluntary contributions are received, regrettably, this visit may have to be cancelled. The total cost of the trip is divided equally by all children in the year group and the school budget cannot make up significant shortfalls in voluntary contributions.

Please pay this amount via our ParentMail online payment system here https://pmx.parentmail.co.uk/#core/login or log in to your Parentmail mobile app. Payment to be received by Thursday 12th March.

Lunch Arrangements for EYFS / KS1 Trips

Children will need a packed lunch for this trip. Hatton Catering can provide a packed lunch for free for all children but these must be requested online using the SchoolGrid system by midnight on the previous Wednesday of the week it is required.

If your child already has a lunch option booked for the day of the trip this will be cancelled and you will need to rebook the ‘School Trip Packed Lunch’ option via the SchoolGrid system by midnight on the previous Wednesday of the week it is required.

Alternatively, if you would like to provide a packed lunch from home this must be in a disposable carrier bag with a maximum of 2 drinks (no glass bottles and no fizzy drinks), healthy snacks only please and no nuts due to allergies.

We would like to invite some parent volunteers to accompany us on this trip. Please either message on Class Dojo or approach your child’s teacher to let us know if you would like to join us and we will let you know. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

The EYFS team