Newsletter 18th July 2025

Dear Parents/ Carers, 

Bartonian awards 

As ever, it was an honour to award our Bartonian awards today to children who have shown all five of our school values (Self-Belief, Honesty, Respect, Excellence and Kindness) all year. Well done to all of our winners – you can see their photos in the end of term round-up which will be sent next week.  

Bartonian Blooms & Scott Bader 

In our assemblies this week we celebrated the children who have been awarded a petal in their Bartonian Blooms passport. Lots of children have now been awarded their red and orange petals, with a few children working on yellow and blue. A special mention to Klara in Year Two who is the first in the school who has completed her flower up to the gold petal and been awarded her Bartonian Blooms sewn badge for her book bag! Well done Klara! Please continue to use the passport over the summer holiday for ideas of screen-free activities to complete with your child. 

We were joined in the Thursday assembly by a representative from Scott Bader who works in their Commonwealth office (which is in charge of donations and charitable giving). It was funding from this which generously paid for the printing of the passport booklets and badges. We hope to secure more funding in the future to organise some “Bartonian Blooms” days in and trips out of school to ensure that this initiative is equitable and achievable for all.  

Year Six Leavers 

Our Year Six children truly leave us on a high; they have had a fantastic learning journey here at EBPS, the vast majority of them started here in Reception. They finish Year Six with a very special legacy in terms of their achievements, not only academic but their character achievements too. So many of them have been excellent role models as House Captains, Vice Captains, Office helpers, Sports Crew, STEM ambassadors, monitors and more! We are delighted that 20 of them joined the exclusive “100 club” for their endeavours in community service this year and they will get their special treat next week. 

Finally, their Year Six Leavers’ Show of “Bugsy Malone” was a triumph and was highly-praised by all who had the honour of watching. Their singing, dancing, acting and teamwork were superb. It was a truly inclusive show with all children involved - including 5 Bugsies and 3 Blouseys, not to mention numerous splurge guns! Well done Year Six; you leave EBPS truly embodying all of our school values ready to fly in the next phased of your education.  

New building 

It was a privilege to walk around the new school building with the children who won the Lindum Construction design competition several months ago! The building is nearing completion and the children had the opportunity to take a tour of the new Reception classrooms, new Year Three classrooms and link corridor. They were intrigued to learn about the solar panels and the building design.  

Thanks to Richard (site manager) who organised the tour and has been fantastic to work with throughout the build process. We are grateful to Richard and his colleagues at Lindum construction for their hard work and for ensuring the building will be complete and fully handed over to the school in the middle of August.  

September information 

School re-opens to children on Wednesday 3rd September at 8:45am. We have already sent you the new year group information which includes PE kit-wearing days, library days, staff details and which doors to use in September. Please make time to go through this with your children over the summer and before the new school year re-starts to ease any anxieties they may have and remind them of the changes. 

We will also send a reminder during the staff training day on Tuesday 2nd September with any updates. 

Respect for staff 

A note to remind parents and carers that you are your child’s most powerful role-models. When parents are rude and disrespectful to staff in front of children; you are implying to your child that this is acceptable. We work incredibly hard to promote our school values here, Respect being a key value, and when the occasional parent undermines this by shouting, being aggressive or speaking rudely to staff, this completely undermines our message. 

If you do have a concern, query or complaint, staff are happy to help provided this is discussed with the correct person, brought up in the appropriate forum and in a respectful manner. The staff at EBPS go above and beyond in so many ways and, as leaders, we will not tolerate rudeness toward any staff member here. 

School lunches 

As you know, we are moving to Hatton Academies Trust providing our school lunches every day from September. You should have all completed your “School Grid” registration as this is how you will need to order school lunches from September. Please do not order a school lunch AND send a packed lunch as this is wasteful and costs the school money (even for all children in Reception and Years One and Two who get Universal Infant Free School Meals). 

Whilst they learn our school routines and meal numbers, HAT will initially be closing the order system at midnight on Thursdays for lunches for all of the following week. Please therefore get into the routine or ordering for the week or term ahead to ensure your child can have the meal of their choice every day. 

If you have any queries or issues with School Grid, please do contact the office who will try to assist. 

Attendance 

Attendance this week was 94.76%. The top three classes this week were: Bluebell with 99%, Tulip with 98% and in joint third were Holly and Oak with 97%. 

Peripatetic music lessons next year  

The school is pleased to welcome NMPAT music teachers to deliver individual (and sometimes group) music lessons to pupils in key stage 2. We currently have guitar, strings, keyboard, brass and woodwind lessons in school and there are limited spaces available for all these instruments. If you would like to book lessons for September, please book via the NMPAT website, here, or email   

If your child in years 3 to 5 is already having lessons, it is assumed these will continue next year. 

Summer holiday reading / activities 

On our website we have placed lots of fliers, posters and details of events which may be useful to you for over the summer. 

Please find East Midlands Family Magazine here - East Midlands Magazine – All About Family Magazine/ Please access Northamptonshire Children’s Trust ‘Stay Connected’ newsletter here. It contains lots of FREE ideas for activities over the summer. 

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.  

Miss Lally & Mr Morris - Co-headteachers 

Letters home this week 

End of summer term – please send in a bag 

FSM holiday vouchers – eligible families only 

Lunchtime supervisor vacancies 

Y2 BIG sleepover information 

Welcome to new year groups – individual year groups 

Parent survey with a chance to win Lazer Maze vouchers 

Follow on strings lessons – Thistle and half of Rose classes 

Poppy class reports delay apology 

Modelling materials request – EYFS only 

Apologies for delay of school reports 

Attachments 

Online safety – AI enabled scams 

Staying safe around water 

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