Dates not shown on previous issues are added in RED!
17/07/26 — Children break up today
17/07/26 — INSET Day – School Closed to Pupils
Summer Holiday – Tuesday 21st July – 31st August
01/09/26 — INSET Day – School Closed to Pupils
02/09/26 — INSET Day – School Closed to Pupils
03/09/26 — Children return today
03/09/26 — KS1 Transition Meeting – 3.30pm – Blue Hall
03/09/26 — UKS2 Transition Meeting – 4.15pm – Blue Hall
04/09/26 — LKS2 Transition Meeting – 3.30pm – Blue Hall
18/09/26 —EYFS first day Full Time
22-23/09/26 —Year 5 Road Safety Walks
30/09/26 —Individual & Sibling Photographs
05/10/26 —SRFC Rugby Lesson, EYFS, Lion, Year 5 and 6
12/10/26 —SRFC Rugby Lesson, Year 1, Seal & Dolphin
19/10/26 —SRFC Rugby Lesson, Year 3 & 4
23/10/26 —Children break up today
With the warmer weather, it is wonderful to see so many children active and using bikes or scooters to travel to school. However, we must ask for your cooperation in keeping our school grounds safe and accident-free during the busy drop-off and pick-up times.
Please note the following important rules regarding wheeled transport:
No Riding on School Property: For the safety of toddlers, parents, and staff navigating the busy playground, children must dismount their bicycles and scooters at the school gates. Please remind your children that they must walk their bikes or scooters once they are inside the school grounds.
E-Scooters Are Strictly Prohibited: We would like to remind families that privately owned e-scooters are not permitted on school property under any circumstances. In addition to the legal restrictions regarding their use on public pavements and roads, they pose a significant safety hazard in a crowded school environment.
Thank you for working with us to keep our pathways safe for everyone!
Below are a list of letters, leaflets and posters uploaded to the website this week.
Letters sent this week
Previous letters, leaflets and posters can be found on the school website Events & Letters > Letters & Parent Meetings
We have received a deeply concerning report from a member of our local community regarding a possible near-miss outside the school earlier this week.
On Tuesday afternoon around 3:20 PM, a young boy on a scooter crossed the end of The Drive alone, without stopping or looking for oncoming traffic. Fortunately, the motorist involved was driving very slowly and was able to react quickly, preventing what could have been a serious accident.
While we are addressing this directly with our students in classes to reinforce vital road safety rules, we urgently need the support of all parents and carers to keep our children safe.
How You Can HelpTalk to your children: Please speak with your children tonight about the dangers of the roads. Remind them to Stop, Look, and Listen, especially if they are on scooters or bikes. They must never assume a driver has seen them or will be able to stop in time.
Keep corners clear: The driver noted that their visibility was severely restricted because cars were parked on the double yellow lines on the corner of the junction.
Park legally and safely: Parking on double yellow lines or blocking junctions—even for “just a minute” during peak drop-off and pick-up times—puts lives at risk. It creates dangerous blind spots for both drivers and children trying to cross.
Please help us keep all of our students safe by parking responsibly and talking to your children about road awareness.
Thank you for your cooperation and continued support in keeping our school community safe.
Starting next week, our new class times will be:
1st Class: 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM
2nd Class: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The club runs through the summer holidays. Please contact MERIDIAN KUNG FU directly.
We are excited to share that we have begun the OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) project to enhance the lunchtime experience even furtherfor your children. The aim is to provide more opportunities for creative and active play.
This section of the newsletter will keep you updated on our OPAL journey, including upcoming developments and ways you can get involved.
Also, if you are having a clear-out, please look out for our donation requests for resources to enhance the playground. Your contributions would be greatly appreciated!
Can You Help? Plastic Pallets Needed for OPAL! 🧱✨
Our OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) project is going from strength to strength and the children are absolutely loving their enhanced outdoor playtimes! To help us build even more exciting, creative and rugged play structures, we are currently on the lookout for plastic pallets.
Plastic pallets are fantastic for school play because they don’t splinter, they wash down easily and they are incredibly durable for building dens, staging and obstacle courses.
What we need: Clean, sturdy plastic pallets (any size or colour).
If you work for a business that has spares, or if you happen to have any lying around that you could donate, we would be incredibly grateful!
Please contact Mrs Chandler at: dolphin@riversideprimary.co.uk and we can arrange dropping them off.
Thank you so much for your continued support in making our playtimes amazing!
