Parents
Home Learning
At Bishop Wood Church of England Junior School, we take an evidence-based approach to homework, focusing on meaningful, skill-building activities that support your child’s learning journey. Research shows that traditional, repetitive homework tasks offer limited benefits at the primary level. Instead, we emphasise engaging tasks that encourage curiosity, creativity, and understanding. Our homework offer includes: …
Communication
We strongly believe that parental involvement in a child’s education can have a significant effect on pupil achievement. We want to ensure that you are kept informed about what’s going on in school. Home / School Link Book All classes use a link book to improve communication between home and school. Newsletter Our weekly Newsletter …
Financial Support/Cost of Living
Financial Support/Cost of Living Here, at Bishop Wood Junior School, we are acutely aware of the difficulties facing many of our families in terms of financial pressures. We are here to help and support and hope that the information contained within this page is supportive and useful. The school has designated Debs Bourke as the …
Attendance
At Bishop Wood School we aim to encourage excellent levels of attendance and punctuality to enable all pupils to take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to them. Please help us to help you. If you are worried about your child’s school attendance, then staff are available at school and within the local authority …
Meals
Hertfordshire Catering team (HCL) prepare delicious and nutritional meals which are freshly cooked on site each day. We operate a ‘pupil choice’ menu where children can choose which lunch option they would prefer each morning. They offer a three week rotating menu which changes twice a year with the seasons. There are always four choices from …
Payments
Payments to school can be made online via credit or debit card using the School Gateway service. School Meals: You will be able to view school meal balances and top them up at any time. School Trips: We will notify you by email when new items such as trips or tickets for events are available for payment on …
Uniform
A uniform gives a school and its pupils an identity. Every child must wear the correct school uniform on each school day. Uniform bearing the school logo can be ordered at any time directly from one of our uniform suppliers Mapac or My Clothing . We strongly suggest that all clothes are named clearly so that …
Family Liaison
A child’s wellbeing can be influenced by many things; sometimes circumstances within your child’s family life can affect your child’s ability to learn and enjoy their time at school. Or maybe, you are concerned that your child has issues at school. For children to grow and become their best we must support not only them …
School Day
8.35am School gates open – children make their way directly to their classrooms 8.55am Registration 9.00am Lessons 10.30am Playtime 10.45am Lessons 11.50am Collective Worship 12.15pm Lunch 1.20pm Afternoon Registration 1.30pm Lessons 3.30pm End of school day
Bishop Wood Breakfast & Supper Club (BSC)
The Bishop Wood Breakfast and Supper Club is a professional breakfast and after school club with planned activities led by friendly, qualified staff and is run from the school dining hall every day during school term time. Breakfast Club runs from 7.35am – 8.45am every morning during term-time. (£6 per session) Please note that breakfast …
Music Lessons
Individual & Small Group Tuition We offer children the opportunity to learn a musical instrument whilst at Bishop Wood School. Lessons are delivered by the Herts Music Service who offer the following: Guitar Flute, Clarinet and Saxophone Piano Violin Children will be taken out of their classrooms for their music lessons. We try, wherever possible, to …
Buddies – PTA
Buddies Facebook Page www.facebook.com/BishopWoodSchoolBuddies Help raise funds for Buddies by ordering your name tags from MY NAMETAGS. Enter the school ID – 20406 so that Buddies receive a commission. About Bishop Wood Buddies Bishop Wood School Association, known as Bishop Wood Buddies, is managed by a committee of parents and staff, the …
Clubs
During normal times, we offer a wide variety of extra curricular school clubs at Bishop Wood. Some are free of charge and run by our teachers whilst others are run by outside providers for a small fee. Clubs information will be updated during the first two weeks of term as details become available. Children are …
eSafety
On-line safety is the child protection priority for the 21st century! We take safeguarding and on-line safety very seriously at Bishop Wood School. We want to work with parents and carers to keep children safe. Please be aware that if we have any concerns about children accessing inappropriate computer games or social media sites, we …
Severe Weather Action
In the event of severe weather closure a text message will be sent to the primary named contact of all children. Please do not phone school as all lines will be needed to inform everyone. Information will also be available on this website, www.hertfordshire.gov.uk as well as the following local radio stations: Mix 96 (96.2FM) Heart 97.6 …