Published at 8am on Friday 11th July

Dear parents and carers

The weather forecast and weather warnings mean that we are making changes to the plans for today.

Nursery sport morning – 10am start

This is going to continue as planned. The activities should take no longer than 30 minutes and the children will be in the shade when they aren’t racing. At this time of day, we feel that the children and spectators will be able to enjoy themselves happily and safely. Please be aware that spectators may not be in the shade.

Reception and infant sport afternoon

Unfortunately, this will not take place today and apologise for the upset that this may cause. We will postpone it to the reserve session of 1.30pm on Monday 14^th July. We feel that today children and spectators will not be able to enjoy the event happily and safely and appreciate your support in this.

Published 9.40am - Wednesday 9th July

Parents and carers of children in infants and reception.

We are all looking forward to our sport afternoon on Friday 11^th July. However, we also need to ensure that the event is enjoyed happily and safely by the children, staff and spectators and the weather forecast for the next few days implies it is going to be very hot and sunny.  

On Friday 11^th July at 8.00am we will use any forecasts and potential weather warnings to decide if the event can go ahead as planned and publish the decision on our website and by email.

If we can’t have it on Friday 11^th we will try to have it on the reserve session of Monday 14^th July. The weather forecast at present for the 14^th is for it to be cooler than on Friday. However, we will decide at 8am on Monday 14^th July about having the event take place in the afternoon and publish information on the website and in an email.

Making the decision at 8am on each day seems to be the most sensible approach to ensure that we use the latest most up to date information available, whilst at the same time trying to help families make any arrangements with work.

We will be using the weather warning information given by the UK Health Security Agency. At present this is giving a yellow warning for Friday afternoon for the East Midlands. CLICK HERE.

If we can’t have it take place on either afternoon, with spectators, we will hopefully have the infant and reception sport event take place in school at another time, however we would not be able to welcome spectators.

I apologise for the upset that this may cause as we try to work with weather forecast, weather warnings, the safety of all and the arrangements that I know many of you make with work to come and support your children.

Thank you for your support and understanding - Mr. Averis

Update - 10am 9th July

Decisions about the nursery sport morning, hopefully taking place at 10am on Friday 11th July, will be made at 8am on Friday 11th as well. 

Please can all parents of children in year 6 go to the PTFA events page to let the committee know about allergies and preferences to help the prom run smoothly and safely - thank you

CLICK HERE. 

The hot weather this week at school means that we are all making sure we stay sun safe and cool. 

Please ensure that you apply sun-cream to your children before they come to school and ensure that they - 

• Have a sun hat that provides complete head and neck protection
• Bring a water bottle, we can refill these in school during the day. Bottles need to have sport caps so that if they are knocked over they don't spill. We only allow water in these bottles not squash. 
• Coats and jumpers will not help children stay cool in hot weather. T-shirts and loose fitting clothes are more appropriate. 

At point of writing (5pm on Wednesday 18th June) there are no hot weather warnings in place for the rest of the week or the weekend. CLICK HERE. We will continue to monitor the MET office website to ensure that we follow any guidance should a weather warning for hot weather be put in place and adjust what we do in school accordingly.

We are therefore still looking forward to the PTFA colour run tomorrow night. The aim of this event is to get messy. It is not a race, it is not timed, the slower you run, the messier you get, the more time you have having colour thrown at you and getting hosed down with water. The PTFA have also ensured that there are also extra gazebos in place. Everyone who takes part gets a medal regardless of how long they take. 

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. 

Year 5 children are enjoying their breakfast of pancakes on a sunny Derbyshire morning. Mrs. Astell has let us know that they had a lovely first afternoon and evening enjoying a barbecue and 'smuggler's run' and are getting set for today's activities (stream walk/high ropes). 

Year 5 children have arrived safely at Lea Green for their two night residential trip. 

We have added the final two INSET days to the calendar for school year 2025-2026. 

The five INSET days are

• Thursday 4th September 2025
• Friday 5th September 2025
• Friday 24th October 2025
• Monday 26th January 2026 (new date) 
• Monday 15th June 2026 (new date)

More information is on our calendar page

• Online interactive calendar that can be synced to your phone and has all our calendar information for future years -  CLICK HERE.
• Term dates holiday planner for 2025-2026 - CLICK HERE. 
• Term dates holiday planner for 2026-2027 (two more INSET days need to be added) CLICK HERE. 

The PTFA need volunteers to help at the colour run on Thursday 19th June. 

Without this help the event will not be able to take place. 

If you are able to help please contact the PTFA team - CLICK HERE to send them an email. 

Calling all parents, grandparents & child-minders!

You are warmly invited to come along to Little Church, a pre-school group for 0-4 year olds at St Peter’s every Wednesday in term time from 10am to 12 noon. This is where you can meet Jack who is keen to tell you a Bible story and encourage you to sing some of his favourite songs. There’s also time to play and do a craft activity as well as    enjoy snack time. Come along and join in the fun!        Jack                                              

John Flamsteed school are inviting year five children to take part in this Easter competition. 

All details are in the poster below. 

Good luck