Bad Weather notifications:

Bulletin 19 Nov 2024 issued 7:00am:
 

Greystones Pre-school will be operating Breakfast Club as normal from 8am today.

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School will open as normal from 8:40am, but we won't be closing our registers for pupils until 9:30am giving time for staff and children to make it in from further afield.

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Hearing Impaired school transport is running as normal.

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Parents - Please make your journeys safely to school to drop off children.  For children not living in walking distance, roads are passable currently but we will expect congestion as the morning commute starts to build.  Snow conditions across the whole of the Greystones catchment area are less severe than predicted, and therefore should not pose any problems for walking in.

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On arrival at school, please stick to cleared, gritted footpaths to enter the buildings using the nearest gate to the classroom.  Any arrivals after 9:30am should use the main entrance.

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Bulletin 18 Nov 2024 issued 10:00am:

Snow Forecast / Weather Warnings

As you will be aware there are snow forecasts for our region overnight tonight and into the early hours of tomorrow morning, with a prolonged cold spell over a number of days

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As a school we are lucky that even on most snow days we can open for most if not all of the day because the majority of our school staff live within reasonable walking distance of the school.  Accordingly, we may adjust opening times to start a little bit later to ensure safe journeys are taken in getting to school; or when snow begins to fall significantly during the day we may contact you to advise that we will allow the collection of children earlier than the end of the day. 

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Having 630 children means we will have significant impact on the school office and staff if you try to contact the school by phone, email or text asking us for updates, so we want to be clear about how we will communicate any changes to the school day.

 

We will keep our parents informed of any changes to our opening times through three main ways of contact:
 

1. We will confirm our instructions on our school website – look for the Quick Link button displaying the title Bad Weather and Snow Flake symbol at the top of all school webpages.

2. We will email and app-message parents directly using our SchoolComms system.  If you’re not receiving regular updates from us then you might not have got the most up to date email address or mobile phone number advised to the school. If in doubt contact us and update us with the correct information.

 

Please note that all parents (where possible) will receive updates from school by both email and message.  We cannot, however, program additional notifications for child minders or grandparents, or other adults whom you entrust your childcare to, so please make sure that you pass on information to them when we send that information out; or ensure that they know to look at our school website for the relevant information.

 

Routes into and around school

If the school site is subject to snowy conditions we will endeavour to ensure that our main access routes from school gateways to the buildings are cleared, gritted and maintained during those conditions.  This means we may choose to prioritise these routes over clearing the school playgrounds and any routes that circumnavigate the grounds.  Please use the gates and entrances nearest to the location of your child’s classroom; accessing via Greystones Road or Tullibardine Road.

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Children’s Weather-ready Clothing

We know we shouldn’t have to say the following, but sadly we still see many children turn up without suitable winter-wear in the form of hats, gloves scarves, waterproof warm coat and appropriate footwear such as wellies or walking boots.

Please ensure your child is dressed correctly for the weather conditions, as break and lunchtime play may still use the outside in snowy conditions while it is safe to do so. 
 

And above all, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILDS NAME IS CLEARLY WRITTEN ON LABELS OR SOMEWHERE ON THE INSIDE OF THEIR ITEMS OF CLOTHING so that they can be returned to them if they are misplaced or left around the school.

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Greystones After School Club 

When weather affects the school's closing time and your child is booked into the after school club we will continue to provide childcare up to the normal closing time of 6:00pm.  Where we have announced that pupils can be collected early and you have been able to collect your child instead of staying for after school club, we generally cancel session charges on those occasions.  In the event that children not booked in to the after school club are remaining in school after 3:30pm, they will be transferred down to the after school club at that time and held there until collected.  Please use the call button at the gate opposite the Doctor's Surgery to notify staff that you have arrived to collect your child(ren).

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Emergency Arrangements - General Information

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When the snow hits Sheffield and the local Greystones area, the school communicates any emergency arrangements that parents and carers need to know by a number of means. 

We encourage parents to use our online communication app to receive push notifications directly to their smart phone. Outside of this school will communicate with parents via email and in the most severe cases by text message to all priority contacts.

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Remote Education via Online Learning at times of Enforced School Closure and Covid-19 

Guidance on how to access our Online Learning is here.

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In order to access the materials and guidance for online learning you will need to use your parent/child login information provided to you by school and sign in to the Parent Portal via the button at the top of the our webpages.

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(previous bulletins published here are no longer applicable and have been removed)