Holy Trinity C of E Primary School

Dear parents/carers,

I am pleased to inform you that as a school, we are engaging in the Emotionally Friendly Settings process.

Emotionally Friendly Settings (EFS) is an initiative developed by Salford Educational Psychology Service in collaboration with schools. The aim of this process is to promote positive emotional wellbeing in school and identify and support any difficulties that arise early. The EFS process focuses on 4 key areas:

• Staff Wellbeing and School Ethos
• Classroom Practice
• Assessing Children’s Needs
• Supporting Individual Children

As part of this process we have been asked to collect data from children and staff in school to help measure the impact of this work. Children may be asked to complete a short questionnaire online or take part in small group conversations to gain their views about how they think emotional wellbeing is promoted in school. Your child’s name will not be collected and it will not be possible for them to be identified from the data gathered. Tameside Educational Psychology Service may support us with this data collection.

If you would prefer for your child to not be involved in the data collection process you are able to opt-out using the attached slip. Please print out that attached letter and bring it into school. If you do not complete the slip, it will be presumed that you are happy for your child to be involved in completing the questionnaire and for their views to be incorporated into the data collected by the school.

If you would like to find out more about Emotionally Friendly Settings, please visit the website: www.emotionallyfriendly.co.uk

If you have any further questions about the project, please do get in touch.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Hockey

Deputy Headteacher

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are delighted to let you know that we will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5 March.  This is an opportunity to share the joy of reading and encourage a lifelong love of books in all of our children.  This year, children may dress up as a book character for the day if they wish, or alternatively, they can come in their own clothes and bring one of their favourite books with them.   The day will be packed with stories and activities around some of our favourite books.

As we have done in previous years, we will be holding a World Book Day competition.  This year, we are inviting children to take part in a ‘Story on a Paper Plate’ competition.  We would like pupils to choose a favourite book or story and recreate a scene, character or key moment from it on a paper plate. This could be through drawing, painting, collage or a small 3D design.  

Please ensure that your child’s name and class are clearly written on the back of the plate. All entries should be brought into school by Monday 2 March and the winners from each year group will be announced in our special World Book Day assembly.

We look forward to seeing their creations.

Kind regards,

Miss Quinn

Dear Parents and Carers,

I am writing to inform you that Holy Trinity CE Primary School will be removing our school account from X (formerly Twitter).

In light of recent information in the news and our ongoing commitment to safeguarding, we have reviewed our use of this platform and do not feel it remains the most appropriate or secure way to share school information and celebrate children’s achievements.

We know many families enjoy seeing the wonderful things happening across school, and we want to reassure you that this will not stop. We will be reviewing and moving towards more secure and suitable methods of sharing our school news through alternative platforms. We will update you again once this has been agreed.

In the meantime, important updates will continue to be shared through our usual channels, including school communications and direct messages.

Thank you, as always, for your support.

Mrs Kavanagh

(Headteacher)