06 December 2024

December 2 week holiday – Food vouchers for FSM eligible children: Dear All – As you may be aware the Director for Children's Services has agreed to fund Free School Meal vouchers for the upcoming December 2 week holiday. This means that Hindhayes will be allocated some funds from the Government and for these families, I have organised for you to receive your child's voucher electronically via email from Friday 20th December. The funding allocated is £10 per child, per week for the holiday period. For any families where your financial circumstances may have changed or you are unsure of your entitlement, you can contact the school office by emailing (Office@Hindhayes.co.uk). Alternatively, please complete this link below which is a very straightforward online form, which takes less than 5 minutes to complete and will go directly to colleagues at County Hall to check eligibility. No additional checks are made and this is purely to see whether we can allocate this funding to you: Free school meals (somerset.gov.uk) For eligible families, it means you receive the support you are entitled to as well as Hindhayes receiving the correct funding into the budget at this extremely challenging period for all schools. We encourage all families to complete the online form please, regardless of circumstances. If there are any queries or you need any help, please contact the school office through the above email

27 November 2024

Unfortunately our phone lines are down! We are awaiting for Openreach to come on site to help resolve the problem. In the meantime, please email in to the school office on Office@hindhayes.co.uk Thank you.

19 November 2024

Hindhayes Christmas Raffle! We are going to be holding a raffle that will be drawn at our Christmas Fayre on Thursday 19th December.

14 November 2024

Dear All As you may know, it was school photo day yesterday. Unfortunately our usual photographer is unable to take the photos and we therefore took the decision to take these ourselves. Mrs Nester and Mr Scott bought in their own cameras and equipment and we set up 2 photo stations where we had a traditional photo on a plain background then followed by a festive scene with 2 photos, followed by an outside whole class photo. It was fun and staff and children enjoyed having their photos taken, as did the staff taking them! We are going to offer the photos for families to purchase via Parent Mail from tomorrow, Friday 15th and digital images will be sent by the end of next week, Friday 22nd. All schools are facing difficult financial challenges at the moment and all of the funds raised will go directly to the school budget. Therefore, please help support Hindhayes by purchasing the photos. The cost will be £15 for a bundle of 4 images, which will include a standard plain background, 2 festive shots as well as a class photo. We want everyone to be happy with their images and while we can't offer the professionalism of our usual photographer, we hope you'll appreciate the personalised images. We will make sure that all images are emailed to those who purchase them by Friday 22nd so that you can use these if you wish for gifts. We know the photos are great gifts and the ideas are endless, such as, Calendars, Mugs, Jigsaws, Magnets, Cushions, Gift vouchers....the list goes on!

16 October 2024

October half-term holiday – Food vouchers for FSM eligible children: Dear All – As you may be aware the Director for Children's Services has agreed to fund Free School Meal vouchers for the upcoming October half-term holiday. This means that Hindhayes will be allocated some funds from the Government and for these families, I have organised for those eligible to receive your child's voucher electronically via email from Friday 25th October. The funding allocated is £10 per child, per week for the holiday period. For any families where your financial circumstances may have changed or you are unsure of your entitlement, you can contact the school office by emailing (Office@Hindhayes.co.uk). Alternatively, please complete this link below which is a very straightforward online form, which takes less than 5 minutes to complete and will go directly to colleagues at County Hall to check eligibility. No additional checks are made and this is purely to see whether we can allocate this funding to you: Free school meals (somerset.gov.uk) For eligible families, it means you receive the support you are entitled to as well as Hindhayes receiving the correct funding into the budget at this extremely challenging period for all schools. We encourage all families to complete the online form please, regardless of circumstances. If there are any queries or you need any help, please contact the school office through the above email Thank you –––––––––––––––– Mike Sales

09 September 2024

September 2025 parents! Please find the details for our Open House for prospective September 2025 pupils. There is no need to book, please just turn up on the day!

04 September 2024

Message from Mrs Nester: Dear parents and carers We hope you have enjoyed the summer holidays and thank you for having the children on the extra INSET days this week. Just to reassure you that we have worked incredibly hard to ensure that we are ready to open as planned on Monday morning. There will still be a week of work to complete but this will not impact the children and their learning experience or personal safety. Once the rooms are finished we look forward to welcoming families in to see the work that has been completed, we know you will be thrilled. We will provide some photo updates next week in the first school newsletter. During the last couple of days the staff will be very busy but if you have any questions please do feel free to email the school office and we will respond to your queries. Here's to a wonderful school year.

20 August 2024

Dear All – We hope that you're having a great summer. We wanted to let you know although the school is closed, lots of work is going on to improve Hindhayes ready for when we return in September. Due to the significant fundraising and support of Somerset Council we have been able to realise our ambitious project to fully refurbish 4 classrooms, the corridor to the classrooms as well as create additional toilets and storage areas. There is a new roof and heating also. None of this would be possible without the support by all involved and their hard work and vision. The project remains on schedule to be completed and although there is a lot to do, I hope you'll see from the pictures below the quality and level of work involved. The building team are working 7 days a week, putting in long days to complete the work so that we are ready to welcome you back in September. This week for example the doors and windows are being fitted, then flooring the week after. Also, we have improvements to the heating system around the rest of the school and have had several trees felled during the holidays. It is and continues to be a really busy summer of improvements at Hindhayes. Enjoy the rest of the holidays and we look forward to seeing you soon.

18 July 2024

Set up for Sports Day and the School Fayre is underway! There is lots of great prizes to be won so please bring cash! Thank you to TOR FC for the kind donation of a brand new 2024-25 Premier League football. Donations are always greatly received from various businesses, sports teams and most importantly, our families here at Hindhayes!