Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Holiday Free School Meal Vouchers

  Mon 24 Jun 2024

  Gloucestershire County Council is providing 2 weeks of vouchers at £15 per child eligible for free school meals, per week for the Summer 2024 holiday.

   

  The other 4 weeks of the holiday are supported through the HAF programme, which provides a meal for children attending the activities they are booked onto. For more information, please ask families to visit Gloucestershire HAF where they can also sign up to the Children’s Activities Booking System (CABS). The HAF programme is a separate scheme, and vouchers cannot be issued as an alternative.  

   

  Applications for holiday Free School Meal vouchers for Summer 2024 holiday will be open from midday 25 June 2024 until midday on 09 July 2024. Applications cannot be accepted after this date. Vouchers will be distributed to families the week commencing 15 July 2024.

   

  If you have previously signed up for the free school meal vouchers programme you do not need to do anything.  Vouchers will automatically be sent to you.  If you have not previously applied for vouchers, you must apply here: Holiday free school meal vouchers | Gloucestershire County Council. 

   

  If you do not receive their vouchers by 17 July 2024, please  check your spam/junk mailboxes for an email from selectcode@select-your-reward.co.uk, and ensure your mailbox settings allow junk mail.

   

  To find out more about the scheme, visit our FAQs | Gloucestershire County Council

• My Stage School Opportunity

  Fri 21 Jun 2024

  My Stage School theatre school are starting Saturday afternoon classes for children.  They have a free taster session on Saturday 7th July for children to try out the class and parents to watch.  For details, see poster. 

  

• Holiday Activities & Food Booking - Summer 2024

  Mon 10 Jun 2024

  The Gloucester City Holiday Activity & Food (HAF) programme arranges a range of free activities for children eligible for Free School Meals and their families.  There are activity camps, open access play sessions, music workshops, fun fitness sessions, boxing, swimming and more.  The programme is available for 4 weeks during the upcoming summer holiday.  

   

  Bookings are made via a centralised booking system.  If you are using the system for the first time you will need to make an account.  To set up an account, go to https://gloucestershirecounty.coordinate.cloud/account/register or scan the QR code on the poster below.  

   

  Activities are available to browse from 17 June at 12pm and bookings open at 12pm on 1 July 2024. 

  

• Denmark Road High School Open Morning

  Thu 09 May 2024
  

• School meal price increase

  Tue 26 Mar 2024

  The catering company, Caterlink, have increased the price of a school meal to £2.71 from April 2024.  Please make sure to put on multiples of £2.71 when putting money on your child's dinner money account ready for our return on 08 April.  

   

  1 meal £2.71

  2 meals £5.42

  3 meals £8.13

  4 meals £10.84

  5 meals £13.55

• Stroud High School open mornings

  Mon 11 Mar 2024

  Stroud High School is holding open mornings for Y3/4/5 girls and their parents on Friday 25 April and Friday 28 June 2024, 9.15 - 11.30am.

  

• Gloucestershire Libraries Events

  Fri 08 Mar 2024

  Gloucestershire Libraries have a number of events coming up.  See their brochure here https://issuu.com/gloslibraries/docs/gl_whats_on_april-june_24_4_

  

• High School Allocations

  Tue 05 Mar 2024

  A reminder to Year 6 parents that the deadline to respond to your child's high school place offer is Friday 8 March 2024.  If you need any help, please come to see us in the office.

• Holiday Free School Meal Vouchers

  Thu 29 Feb 2024

  Gloucestershire County Council will be providing vouchers for the Easter break for children eligible for free school meals.  Vouchers for the May half-term will be distributed at the same time as those for the Easter holiday period. Therefore, families who have signed up will receive a total of £30 per eligible child, comprising of 1 week (£15) for Easter 2024 and 1 week (£15) for May 2024 half-term.

   

  During 2024, there will be food and activity support available via the HAF programme (during Spring, Summer and Winter holiday periods). This is a separately funded scheme that provides the children who book and attend events with a meal. The HAF programme is not able distribute food/supermarket vouchers. For more information on the HAF programme please visit their webpage here: Holiday activities and food programme (HAF) | Gloucestershire County Council

   

  Families who have signed up previously do not need to re-register for Easter 2024 and May 2024 holiday vouchers - they will already have been included. Families that have previously signed up will need to contact Gloucestershire County Council with any changes to their circumstances. If your child is eligible for free school meals and you have not previously signed up, please sign up as soon as possible.

   

  Voucher emails will be sent out week commencing 18 March.  Please check your junk/spam email folders during this period as sometimes the vouchers end up there. If you have not received your vouchers by 20 March, please email childrensfund@gloucestershire.gov.uk.

  For more information and to sign up, please visit our website - Holiday School Meal vouchers.

   

   

• Gloucestershire College Course List & Apprenticeship Open Evening

  Tue 27 Feb 2024

  Gloucestershire College have released their latest list of courses for learners over 19 years of age.

   

  Apprentice Open Evening

  The college has an apprenticeship event on the 6^{th of} March at the Gloucester Campus, between 5-8pm.  Explore award-winning apprenticeships across 17 industries with connections to over 1,300 of Gloucestershire’s best businesses. 

  Book your place via the link below.

  https://www.gloscol.ac.uk/events/2024/03/apprenticeship-open-evening/