Friday, 11 September 2026

Weekly reminders for week beginning 14th September 2026

It was certainly lovely to welcome the children from Year 1 to Year 6 back to school this week, as well as welcoming our Reception and Nursery children. The children certainly lived up to expectation and have taken returning to school in their stride. Their adaptability and resilience never ceases to amaze me. They settled so quickly into their classes with lots of learning taking place. 

We have a VERY exciting week ahead!

Meet the Teacher
Thank you to all those who came to Meet the Teacher last week. We enjoyed meeting you and hope you found it useful. Meet the Teacher continues this week. Teachers will be in classrooms straight after school and available until 4pm. Please do come and say hello and see your child's classroom. This week is as follows:
Tuesday 15th September - Year 5
Wednesday 16th September - Year 2
Thursday 17th September - Greenland (2.45pm)
Thursday 17th September - Year 4

Swimming
Swimming starts on Monday for Year 4 and Greenland. Year 4 will be swimming every day for the next two weeks so please ensure that they come prepared. Any questions please ask.

Wow Day
We are very much looking forward to a special event at school on Monday involving the children from Year 2 to 6! Ask them what they got up to when they get home!

Exciting Times for Clockhouse
We have a number of Headteachers and Senior Leaders from all over the country visiting the school on Tuesday to learn about what we do. We cannot wait to showcase our wonderful school!

Year 2 and Year 4
Children in Year 2 and 4 have and exciting VR expeirence coming to school on Wednesday to launch their new topic learning. Please send the money in or pop into the office if you need to pay for this - thank you in advance.

Jean's Day
Friday will once again be the day where we honour and remember Mrs O'Connor with Jean’s Day. Mrs O'Connor was our former Librarian and Midday Supervision, who suddenly passed away in August 2022. Her favourite colour was purple / lilac so we are asking our Clockhouse family to wear something of this colour in her honour along with non-uniform (PE will continue on this day). 

Is your child, or a child you know due to start Reception in September 2027
We are looking forward to welcoming prospective parents / carers into school on Thursday 10.00am and 4.00pm. Please call the school to book this or a tour later in the term.

Please remember
As you know jewellery is not permitted in school. Please ensure children do not come to school wearing this. This includes earrings which should not be worn for school for health and safety reasons.

Things to be aware of
Following the success of last year, we will be continuing with Achievement Assembly on a Monday to get the week off to a fabulous start. This will be starting on Monday 21st September.

The Reading Raffle is back again - when reading with your child at home, please send the teacher a message on Class Dojo or fill in their Reading Diary so that the teacher knows they have read and the children can be awarded with a raffle ticket and entered into the weekly draw. Look out for more exciting news about reading at Clockhouse coming your way soon.

Hot Chocolate with the Head continues, children will celebrate with me should they win this award. You will get a call if your child has won to ensure they have permission for this.

Please also remember that if children bring things to school, this is done so at your own risk (unless we have directly asked you to do so).

We are having a big push on tucking shirts in and taking pride in our appearance. The children are getting very good at this and thank them and you for your support in this. This also includes ensuring the children come to school in the correct PE uniform on PE Days, please help us with this.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
Nut Free School reminder
English Subject Newsletter
History Subject Newsletter
OCA Newsletter
Jean's' Day
You Said, We Did
VR Experience (Year 2 and 4)
Height and Weight Check Information (Reception and Year 6)
SATs and Residential Meeting (Year 6)
Secondary School applications (Year 6)
Walking home (Year 5 and 6)

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.
Have a good week everyone!
#ourclockhousefamily
Mrs Savidge

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link: Clockhouse Primary School Website

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League started this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:
A big well done to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada and Mexico who lead the Reception and Key Stage 2 Dojo League.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to
Peru, Argentina, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, China, Japan, India, New Zealand and Greenland who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Brazil and Australia in second place and Fiji in third.

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

A great first week back, well done all! The attendance winners this week are...

Great attendance leads to 
great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this week's winners who are:

USA - 99.7%
Uganda - 99.7%
Australia - 100%

Well done to all three classes above.

13 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes. 

A further well done to France, Spain, Mexico, USA, Brazil, Peru, Uganda, India, Japan, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand who had no lates this week. 

Whole school attendance for this week is:

96.8%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

96.8%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school every day and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Saturday, 5 September 2026

Clockhouse we are ready for you...

Whilst everyone has been busy making the most of the summer holidays, things have not stopped at Clockhouse and we are ready and certainly excited to welcome our fabulous community back to school.

Along with a very thorough clean, there has been some significant building work and improvements taking place.

Have a look below, to find out what has been happening:

Complete renovation of all three Year 3 Classes - 









Refurbishiment of the Key Stage 2 corridor - 




The classrooms are looking great too (we just need children)!

















































As you can see, we have been very busy and huge thank you must go to all the staff for their dedication and commitment. Without them the children would not be coming back to such a wonderful environment.

We are ready for you and cannot wait to see everyone on Monday!