Greenfields Primary School Website

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GreenfieldsPrimary School is part of Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust, which is made up of three primary schools in Shrewsbury, all dedicated to providing the highest possible academic opportunities, and developing the all round skills of our children. For more information about Severn Bridges, please click on the icon below:

Welcome to the Greenfield Primary School website. We hope that it will provide you with useful information, give you a flavour of our school and help you to see what makes Greenfield such a special place.

Our vision is to develop respectful, resilient and happy children who achieve their full potential. We will achieve this by providing a learning environment that is aspirational, collaborative and safe; one in which all children can thrive.

A very warm welcome to Greenfield Academy website. My name is James Keating I am very privileged to be the Executive Headteacher of the Academy. This is an exciting time for everyone connected with Greenfield. We have just become an Academy and joined the Advance Learning Partnership Multi Academy Trust. In addition to this we have also secured funding for a completely new state of the art school building scheduled to be opened for September 2025. We all look forward to moving into this facility and know it will support the development and achievement of all our children now and in the future.

Please have a look at our website where you will be able to learn more about our curriculum of play and our methods of teaching. Greenfield is an amazing school where your child will have a truly wonderful time. We welcome Covid-19 secure visits to our spacious, well-resourced areas. Please phone for an appointment and we will be happy to show you more of our school.

If you are a parent, the website has everything you will need to know from dates to uniform rules. If you are a visitor, then please take a look at our class pages and galleries to see the lovely work that goes on in Green Park every day. If you are an inspector, then you are also welcome (but please remember to look at our data page, because we are very proud of the progress our children make).

Recently, Green Park has reached out to begin supporting other schools, both in Dover and across Kent and has also formed a collaboration, known as the Dover Collaboration of Schools, with Charlton CE Primary, St Richard RC Primary and Langdon Primary Schools.

What a great day of sporting success for our brilliant children. The girls football team finished runners up at the McCarthy cup tournament and our Panathlon team finished as winners of the Kent Panathlon!

Thank you for visiting our website. We hope the information available here will be useful to existing parents, and to those who are looking to bring their children to Henley Primary School. We hope you enjoy our aerial photography of the school and grounds (with thanks to Adrydog photography).

Our partner school, Helmingham Primary School is a 10-minute drive away; we share as much as possible including our curriculum, educational resources, residential trips and educational visits. We also share staff as well as administrative and operational responsibilities and, of course, fun! Together we are called 'The Greenfields Partnership'.

If you would like to find out more about us, make an appointment, or request paper copies of anything on this website, please call 01473 831556 or email office...@consortiumtrust.org.uk. We do have a disabled parking bay at the front of the school if required. We are a peanut and nut free school.

Thank you for visiting our website. We hope the information available here will be useful to existing parents and carers, and to those who are looking to bring their children to St Edmunds Primary School and Nursery.

We are also linked closely to Mendham Primary School, and are collectively known as the 'Waveney Valley Partnership of Schools'. Our dedicated staff team work together and are committed to ensuring our pupils have the best education possible through a wide range of different teaching opportunities and extra-curricular activities.

Our schools have the shared objective of providing the very best education and support to all of our pupils in schools at the heart of their community. We know how important it is to work in partnership with the families of pupils in helping all pupils succeed and in promoting lifelong learning skills.

Thank you for visiting our website. We hope the information available here will be useful to existing parents, and to those who are looking to bring their children to Helmingham Primary School and Nursery.

Helmingham Primary School and Nursery is a small, village primary school located on the spectacular estate of the Grade 1 listed Helmingham Hall and the beautiful Mid-Suffolk countryside. Our school has less than 50 pupils, each unique and important. We believe in learning by enquiring, inspiring and persevering in a safe, caring and creative environment and promoting positive learning behaviours.

If you would like to find out more about us please call our Office Manager, Mrs Caroline Miller on 01473 890267 or email office.h...@consortiumtrust.org.uk to make an appointment, or have a look at our Facebook page.

Generally, Greenfield-Central does not cancel school for cold temperatures, even when temperatures drop well below 0 degrees. The school may, however, determine that a two-hour delay is warranted to allow for students to travel during daylight hours when it is easier to respond to emergency situations in daylight rather than darkness. Please understand that there are conflicting views on cold-related delays or cancellations. Some parents prefer that we delay or cancel school on unusually cold days, easily adapting personal and work schedules to stay at home with young children. Other parents cite that any school delay or cancellation causes them to miss work, adversely impacting their ability to pay for food and housing. These parents represent an increasing number of single-parent and single-income families in our community. Ultimately we must link the decision to delay or cancel school to student safety. During the winter months, we encourage students to bundle up with layers when commuting to and from school and to cover exposed skin when it is unusually cold.

Unfortunately, weather conditions can worsen once students are already at school. On those rare occasions, Greenfield-Central Schools may initiate a 2-hour early release for middle and high school students. A common misunderstanding that parents assume is that this subsequently compromises the safety of younger students who are released later. This is not the case. For many of our families, both parents work outside the home. By releasing middle and high school students first, older siblings and babysitters enter the community prior to the dismissal of the younger students who need supervision if parents are not at home.

The State is very clear about early dismissal. Schools may only dismiss two hours early, not during the lunch hour. Regular dismissal time is at 3:25 for Greenfield-Central junior high and high school students. The earliest we can dismiss secondary students for weather-related issues is at 1:25. On early release days, the dismissal of primary and intermediate students will follow the junior high and high school early releases, essentially at 2:00 and 2:10 respectively, or as soon as secondary bus drivers are able to conclude their routes and safely arrive at our four elementary schools. Safety remains our primary focus during severe weather. We appreciate the patience and understanding of families as we make every effort to get students home safely under challenging weather conditions.

Green Weather conditions are indicated by an outdoor temperature of at least 50 degrees Fahrenheit with winds ranging from calm to 15 miles per hour, or 40 degrees Fahrenheit with winds ranging from calm to five miles per hour. Green is acceptable for outdoor activities for most children.

Although children may resist wearing appropriate cooler-weather outdoor clothing, playground supervisors need to establish clearly that proper attire such as hats, mittens, and jackets be worn when warranted.

Yellow Weather conditions are more limiting. In a yellow condition, temperatures can be as high as 50 degrees Fahrenheit with winds of 20 miles per hour or more, or 40 degrees Fahrenheit with winds of 10 miles per hour or greater. Temperatures can also drop to 30 degrees Fahrenheit with winds of 10 miles per hour or 20 degrees Fahrenheit with winds of five miles per hour.

Playground supervisors should observe children carefully since children can become too cold from exposure, or too warm from the activity and heavy clothing. Often younger children will want to continue outdoor playtime in spite of showing signs that they are either too hot or too cold. Supervisors may shorten the duration of outdoor activity time.

Red Weather conditions include temperatures in the 30-degree Fahrenheit, range with winds of 15 miles per hour, the 20-degree Fahrenheit range with winds of 10 miles per hour, or any conditions that are colder and/or windier.

During the red conditions, cold temperatures combined with wind chill factors can become a health risk. Appropriately dressed children may have very limited outdoor play periods under vigilant supervision. Outdoor recess time may be shortened or canceled according to weather conditions.

Part of my responsibilities as school superintendent includes making the decision to delay or cancel school. This is never easy as I consider the impact of these decisions for many of our families, especially those with young children who need childcare provisions. Many of our parents have reliable contingency plans, including the use of extended family and siblings; others utilize older students in their neighborhoods. Some, however, have no one to help with their young children, and consequently lose compensation for lost work opportunities. Inevitably, many are inconvenienced with school delays and cancellations, which I sincerely regret. Ultimately, however, we place the safety of our students as the primary reason to delay or cancel school. To check on weather and road conditions, Todd Prazeau, Greenfield-Central Transportation Director, and I begin driving our roads at 5 A.M. We also routinely exchange information with city and county highway departments as well as with police and sheriff departments to help make the decision. Because many of our buses are well into their routes by 6 A.M., we must make the decision to delay or cancel school by 5:45 A.M. Inevitably, we do our best to make informed decisions before placing buses, student drivers, and employees on our roads. This is not easy because road conditions can vary significantly from neighborhood to neighborhood, as well as by the hour, within our school district. How can parents learn if Greenfield-Central has a delay or cancellation? Greenfield-Central approved the use of the AlertNow emergency notification system, where families can receive email, and/or phone messages to notify them about delays and cancellations. We also routinely call television channels 6, 8, 13 and FOX 59 as early as possible. Other sources of information include the radio stations WRGF, WFMS, WIBC, and WQME. Finally, parents may check out our school website at www.nextfly.biz/greenfield, where we post weather related information as well. We ask, however, that parents not call schools to confirm delays and cancellations, as this works to clog information systems needed for emergency purposes.

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