News from EBPS 4th April 2025

Dear parents and carers,  

Wow! What a wonderful day we have had to conclude the spring term! We started with our Reception and Key Stage One Bartonian assembly this morning, had our winning house team (Water house) afternoon tea this afternoon, Excellence in Everything playtime in the glorious spring sunshine, then concluded the day with our Key Stage Two Bartonian assembly and farewell to Mrs Levell this afternoon. 

Thanks to those who came to our Y1 and Y6 art galleries yesterday; they were wonderful! 

Photographs of highlights from this term can be found on the EBPS termly round-up attached. 

Message from Mrs Levell  

I would like to say a huge thankyou to parents, carers and children for the wonderful gifts and cards I have received as I leave EBPS. I have been absolutely blown away by these and will stand all the cards up on the windowsills in my new house when I arrive tomorrow! I will miss all of you and would like to thank you for your support during my 7 years here.  Thank you again. 

Spring term reports 

Your child’s spring term report will be sent home this afternoon. As previously, this will be sent to your personal email address from Insight reports and you will need to enter your child’s date of birth in order to open the attachment. 

Term dates 

A reminder that term dates, holiday clubs, community information can all be found on our school website. The summer term begins at 8:45am on Wednesday 23rd April. (Monday 21st April is Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday 22nd April is an INSET / teacher training day). 

Online safety 

I am sure many of you have watched, read about the Netflix drama “Adolescence ” and are wondering what we can all do to protect our children. There are lots of helpful parent guides on monitoring and ensuring children’s safe use of online platforms, devices and gaming and we send updates each week. Please see the attached online guide to Instagram which has an age-rating of 13+ so no primary school should be using it, but we know some do. 

Similarly, please try to limit children’s screen-time over the holidays and ensure they are playing age-appropriate games. Fortnite has an age-rating of 13+ and is not suitable for primary school children and causes lots of problems in school when children have played it online at home and try to recreate the violence and inappropriate language in school. Why not try some of the activities in the Bartonian Blooms passport with your children and encourage them to get outside! 

Roll out of Medical tracker in school 

In a bid to ensure a consistent and timely approach to informing parents and carers about first aid incidents and medication administration at school, we have decided to transition over to a paperless service called Medical Tracker. Medical Tracker not only allows us to inform parents/carers of first aid incidents and medication administration by email but it also allows us to analyse the data we record. 

Medical tracker is beneficial because: 

• We can record and track first-aid incidents that involve your child more effectively  
• We can record and track medication administration that involves your child  
• You can be notified after a first-aid incident by email (instead of letters coming home at the end of the day) 

You can be notified after medication has been administered by email.    

Please be assured that Medical Tracker is registered with the Data Protection Registrar and guarantees that all information you provide will be kept private and will not be passed on to any other organisation.  

Important – When we start using Medical Tracker, email messages will be sent from . Please add this address to your email address books (or approved sender list) to prevent messages from being blocked by your SPAM/JUNK filters.  Please also ensure you inform the school office if your email address changes. 

All About Family Magazine  

Please find useful articles and suggestions for the family in this online magazine here. 

Wishing you all a lovely Easter / spring holiday and Eid Mubarak to those families who celebrated this festival on Monday. 

Miss Lally & Mr Morris 

Co-headteachers 

Letters home this week 

Year 3 Ancient Egypt day 

Caythorpe presentation – Year 3 residential attendees only 

Headlice letter – Buttercup class 

Lavender class trip 

Gymnastics club – term 5 

Daisy class change of PE day after Easter 

School holiday fund voucher – entitled families only 

Year 5 trips – Castle Theatre and Oxford museums 

Year 1 art gallery reminder 

Case of chicken pox in school – vulnerable families only 

Attachments 

Housepoint sponsor – Haversley 

Online safety – Instagram 

Stevensons opening hours 

EBPS Roundup Spring 2 2025

HOUSEPOINTS TERM 4