Heights Federation

At The Heights Federation we are committed to Safeguarding all our children. Part of this is our medication in school policy. We will only administer medication that has been prescribed by a doctor and a seperate form must be filled in. Please find this attached.

In severe weather a judgement will be made by the headteacher about whether it is safe and practical to open school to the pupils. This decision will be made as early as possible so as to inform parents that school will be closed. The decision will be based on the conditions of the roads in and around school, the ability of parents and pupils to make the journey to school safely and the number of school staff that can safely make the journey to school. Please keep your details up to date so that we can contact you in a weather emergency.

If the school is closed due to severe weather:

*you will be informed by text message from the school as early as possible.

*It will be reported on our school website and the school council website www.kirklees.gov.uk/schoolclosures 

*closure information will be shared with the local radio and TV stations to add to their bulletins.

*you can check on weather and gritting updates at www.kirklees.gov.uk/winter or follow them at twitter.com/kirkleeswinter

It is also not to be assumed that if one of the federation schools is closed that all federation schools will be. Each individual school will have an individual decision about closure depending on conditions around that particular school.

Please be reassured that the headteacher will only decide to close school in exceptional circumstances where the safety of the pupils is the primary concern. On occassion this may be due to the availability of teaching staff who have to travel some distance to reach school, rather than purely conditions for pupils getting to school.  

We are lucky within our Federation that we have our own Federation Out of School Club - Hoppers!

Hoppers provide breakfast club from 7:30 am, with a wide selection of breakfast options, activities to engage the children and will drop off at all three schools for the start of the day.

They also provide after school provision, whereby they will collect from all three schools and give the children an evening of activities, as well opportunities to complete their homework or spending time relaxing after school. This is open until 6p.m.

Hoppers is based locally at Bolster Moor Chapel, but collection and drop off from all three schools is no problem.

If you wish to find out more about Hoppers, pop into any  school office and speak to a member of our administration staff.