The Bee MusicalYear 2 will be performing The Bee Musical onWednesday 22nd June at 2pm and Thursday23rd June at 6.15pm in the school hall. Pleasenote that whilst siblings do not require aticket, we ask that they only attend theWednesday afternoon performance. Twotickets will be allocated per family and willbe available

Thank you to everyone who supported our Jubilee afternoon, especially Mrs Howard and members of the PTA.  We hope that every child received their commemorative bookmark, but if you child has been away, please do let us know.   Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

Woodmancote celebrates the Queen’s Platinum JubileeOn Friday 27th May we will celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Children are invited to come to school dressed in red white and blue for the occasion. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

Welcome back to the Summer Term. We hope that you had a super Easter. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

Over the course of this past week you might have noticed that we have had a significant number of staff off with covid. At one point there were 16 members of staff off from across the school Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

Many of you may have already donated to agencies or organisations responding to the crises in Ukraine. However, if you haven’t and wish to donate now, you may want to visit https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/donate Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

House Photograph Competition This term, we are running a house photography competition with the theme of ‘Wonderful World’.  House points will be awarded to all entries with additional points given to the winners.  The winning photographers will also have the opportunity to have their photograph entered into the Gloucestershire Young

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of World Book Day, we would like to invite children to create a costume reflecting a book character OR come to school wearing non-uniform. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

Welcome to the New Year We hope that you all had a super break and that the children have settled back into the school routine over the last few days. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

Well done to all the children in Reception and at Little Chestnuts. Their production of The Nativity was amazing! Read our latest newsletter by clicking here

Christmas Postbox Our annual Christmas Postbox will be open from Monday 29th November. It is an opportunity for children to send cards to each other. The postbox can be found in the Hall and the children will be able to go in and post any cards that they wish to

Welcome to our first NEST (Nurturing and Emotional Support Team) newsletter! The aim of this newsletter is to introduce the team, and highlight some of the upcoming events. Please do look at the NEST section on our school website for more details.   Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

South West COVID-19 update  Although rates have started to decline in Gloucestershire, they are still at a concerning high, with current rates above both regional and national averages.  Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

Thank you Thank you to all parents who have supported the school this week with wearing masks and bearing with us as we postpone the Parent Consultation Meetings.  We have been able to keep the number of cases down, which is great. We will be reviewing our control measures at

The Sporting Year has started in earnestand many of our children have alreadyrepresented the school in competitionsagainst other local schools.. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

Year 1 and Year 5 children would like to invite parents to their Harvest Festival on November 9th at 2.30pm. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

This week’s newsletter is rather long, but contains some important information about how you can help support the school in the coming year. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

Welcome to all those new parents who have recently joined the school community. That includes not only parents of Reception aged children, but also those of children who have joined us in Year groups throughout the school. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

We all hope that the last few days have been positive and that the children are enjoying being back at school.  Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

As there have been some significant changes over the last 5 weeks, I thought it appropriate to let you know of a few changes that will start when the children return on Thursday 2nd September. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.  

Thanks to your generosity you have helped raise over £350 to help us launch the growing hope project.  Thank you. We appreciate that there are many demands on your time and money, so we really do appreciate your support. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

We would like to involve the whole school community in supporting the Growing Hope Project and really need your help to get us started! Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

Last term, our house photograph competition winners were given the opportunity to enter their photo into the Gloucestershire Young Photographer of the Year competition run by The Cheltenham Camera Club. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

We are delighted to confirm that barring any further lockdown, the Pioneer Centre residential will be going ahead from the 7th- 9th July. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

Thanks to new guidance from the Local Authority, we are now in a position to start scheduling further events in school. Whilst the guidance remains that parents are not to come on site for various events, we are able to organise activities that we had to unfortunately cancel last year.

Welcome back to the Summer Term and the glorious weather! As many of you are all too aware the summer term is usually a term when children partcipate in a range of activities in and out of school. The last year has undoubtedly been hard for many, so we are

Once again we have seen our wonderful eggs hatch into adorable chicks! This year, we would very much like to start keeping chickens on site, enabling children to have first-hand experience of rearing chickens. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

Welcome Back! It has been wonderful to see you all this week. We hope that your children have been eager to be back and happy to have seen their friends again. They have also had an amazing week participating in a range of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities.

We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school on the 8th March. Early next week we will be sending out an updated reopening document, but many of the control measures we had in place in the Autumn Term will be the same. Look out for the document next

I have to begin this newsletter with a huge thank you from everyone at Woodmancote for the support that parents have shown us during this lockdown. We have appreciated all of your kind words, at a time when many of you are also juggling working, home schooling and managing day

As we continue with the current lockdown arrangements there is undoubtedly a great deal of anxiety around how long parents will need to support their children with Home Learning. We can only empathise with you when it comes to the daily struggles some of you are having with keeping the

I’m sorry, but I have to say it, Happy New Year! Needless to say there has been an absence of good cheer amongst those in education since Mr Johnson’s announcement on Monday evening. However, I hope that many of you will feel reassured of the arrangements we have put in

Important COVID 19 Update The Department for Education issued information to schools on Tuesday 8th December regarding the school holiday period. As there was a flurry of information in the media, I think it appropriate to give parents further information of how the school will deal with any confirmed Covid

Christmas House event We are running a house event for the end of the year with the opportunity to win lots of house points and even some Christmas chocolate! We would like the children to design and bring in a ‘Winter scene’ in a box or if you do not

IMPORTANT CHANGES TO SITE SAFETY FROM MONDAY 23RD NOVEMBER Thank you to everyone who contributed to the recent survey. As a result of your comments and observations we have made, there will be important changes to the access arrangements from next week. Read our latest newsletter by clicking here.

We have been made aware of a member of our school community who have tested positive for COVID 19. We know that you may find this concerning but we are continuing to monitor the situation and are working closely with Public Health England. This letter is to inform you of

Return to School Survey Please take the time to complete this survey over the half term break as we would really welcome your feedback as to how the last term has gone. We continue to keep an eye on the national picture and should anything change over the break, we

Anti-Bullying Week Unfortunately it is a sad fact of life that bullying exists in many areas of our society and not just amongst children and teenagers. We aim to teach children about how we can tackle bullying through our taught curriculum, but also through dedicated days and weeks throughout the

We will be undertaking PE outside for the foreseeable future, so all children, other than Reception, will need to have warm clothes for going out in the changeable weather! Due to their age Reception children will use the hall. Please ensure that your child has leggings/tracksuits/sweatshirts/trainers for exercising outside as

School Cloud Unfortunately we are unable to offer face to face Parent Consulations this year. However, we will be able to provide you with access to your child’s teacher through School Cloud. This is the first time we have used this, although we do know of other schools who have.

Thank you for all your support in getting children back into school this week. It has been wonderful to see your children enjoying meeting up with friends again. They have been an absolute joy to have back. We recognise that some of you may have been anxious about your child