Dear Parents/Carers,

Non-uniform Days

I’ve had some useful feedback regarding non-uniform days and the problems they can cause at home. This seems to be especially true with younger children,

Non-uniform days have always been a way to motivate children to do well in school, good attendance as well as a simple way to raise money for good causes. In particular, the non-uniform days to reward good attendance have been very successful.

However, we also appreciate that parents are busy and we don’t want to do anything to make lives at home more complicated. With this in mind we are planning to do the following:

·         Team Point winners will no longer have a non-uniform day. We will celebrate their achievement in other ways in school.

·         We will spread out charity non-uniform days as much as possible. We will publish dates in advance and will not arrange such events at short notice.

·         We will keep non-uniform days for good attendance for Year 1-6 but these will now just be for 100% attendance (previously it was also 99%). In Reception there will be an alternative way of rewarding good attendance for children so there will not be non-uniform days for weekly attendance.

·         We will still have the termly non-uniform day for all children (including Reception) who get 100% attendance across a term.

Hopefully this will address some concerns whilst maintaining a positive ethos in school.

So to clarify, this means that:

·         We will still have next Friday’s non-uniform day for the Parish Christmas Fair on Saturday 29^th November. The school will running its usual stall, so next Friday (28th November) we will have a non-uniform day and ask children go brink in a packet/box of sweets/chocolate for the stall.

·         Y1 and Y2 will still have special non-uniform days on Wednesday 3^rd December (although these will be the last classes that have it for 99% attendance).

·         St Matthew's Team special non-uniform day on Monday 1^st December will be cancelled. We will celebrate their achievement in another way in school. To be fair, this will then be the same for all Team Point winners from now on.

Again, can I thank parents for their feedback as it’s always appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Matt Condon,

Headteacher