BGN''s Youth Choir have recorded this fantastic CD full of Christmas songs including well-known carols such as Hark the Herald Angels Sing and the incredibly moving A Star Shone over Bethlehem, written by a former pupil.    They will be performing in and around Banbury, raising money for charity, during the Christmas period if you want to hear them in person.

The CD is available from our on-line shop at a cost of £11.00.  Limited numbers are available.

As the cold weather is now upon us, we are asking all parents with children who are asthmatic to ensure they have their reliever inhaler on them while they are in school.

We also advise that an emergency inhaler is kept in school and we are happy to store these in our medical cabinet in Student Services. As with all stored medicines we would need the inhaler to be in a box with a prescription label on it and a school consent form to be completed for our records.

If you have any concerns or would like to keep an emergency inhaler in school, please do contact us at the school office.  

Mrs Catherine Smith - Front Office Manager

Mrs Margaret Batsel - School Nurse

As part of OCC’s protocol regarding unauthorised term time holidays, action may be taken for Unauthorised Holiday in term time during the academic year when a request for leave, due to exceptional circumstances, is declined.

Under the education-related provisions of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, Local Authorities, schools and the police have a duty to issue penalty fines to parents or carers of children who are absent from school for the purpose of family holidays during term time without authorisation from the Headteacher.
 

We have a number of unclaimed and unnamed coats in Student Services.       If your child is missing a coat please ask them to come to Student Services before the end of term.   It may save you having to buy a new one for the September term.

You may find this link to Online safety advice for parents from NSPCC useful.

Their advice is to use a simple 4 step approach called TEAM:

• Talk about staying safe online
• Explore their online world together
• Agree rules about what is OK and what is not OK
• Manage your family's settings and controls

There is a lot of other very helpful advice and a guide to various Apps used frequently by children and young adults. Just follow the link below.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/