New Starter Information
Welcome to Cippenham School
Thank you for choosing us as your child's school. We want to ensure that every child's experience of education gives them a good start to a lifetime of learning.
We understand that starting your child at school can be a nervous time and hope that the information you find here will be useful. The office team are always happy to help if you have any queries not dealt with here
Do look out for information from our excellent 'Friends of Cippenham School' who run successful social events for all of our new parents to help you quickly feel part of our community.
Helpful Hints
Here is some information, which you might find useful:
Your child can come into school between 8.35am and 8.45am. Children arriving after this will be recorded as late in the register.
If your child is unwell, please contact the school office on 01628 604665 each morning to let us know. If you have booked a school lunch please cancel it.
All children in the IYR, 1 and 2 re provided with a piece of fresh fruit or vegetable each day. Please ensure additional foods from home are ‘Healthy Snacks’ and nut and orange free. Milk is provided for all children under 5.
We have a number of children who are allergic to nuts, and / or sesame seeds, and oranges, please do not pack products with these ingredients for lunch or snacks
School finishes at 3.15pm.
The school has extended day care running from Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 6pm. Please contact Kidz Club Enterprise for further information and to book.
If your child requires any prescription medicine while they are in school, we ask that you complete a medication administration request (see below), and leave this and the medicine in the school office.
Newsletters are issued weekly. They are emailed to parents where we have an email address, and are also available on the school’s website.
We use a text service to contact parents (ie to advise about an unexpected school closure, or a reminder about an event or class assembly etc), an email service (for newsletters etc). Please work with us and ensure that we always have an up-to-date contact information for you.
Term dates can be found under the School Life tab. Please contact the school office if you require any of the information or forms in hard copy. Thank you.
School Lunches
FREE SCHOOL MEALS
Children in Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 can have a school lunch at no cost to their parents. Pupils do not need to be registered for this - parents just need to order lunches on the three week menus available from the school office, the website or the children's book bags. This scheme is known as Universal Free School Meals (or UFSM)
Children in other school years may also be eligible for free school meals (FSM) if their parent is receiving qualifying welfare benefits. Pupils who qualify for FSM also qualify for a Pupil Premium Grant (PPG). This is (currently) an extra £1,300 for the school to use to fund valuable support like extra tuition, additional teaching staff or after school activities. This additional money is available from central government for every child whose parent is receiving one of the qualifying welfare benefits, but only is the parents register.. It is therefore important that eligible families sign up for free school meals, even if their child is in Foundation, Year 1 or Year 2, i.e. a year group that receives Universal Free School Meals.
To check your eligibility please use the following link: https://www.slough.gov.uk/xfp/form/244
The Pupil Premium is funding allocated to schools for the specific purpose of boosting the attainment of pupils from low-income families. You can read our latest funding statement here.
Funding is based on children who have been registered for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years, further reinforcing the importance of making sure all those who qualify are actually registered. Even if you (or your child) don't want to receive free school meals on a regular basis, there may be other educational benefits for them through the Pupil Premium. Your child(ren) can have a free school meal any day they choose. Taking up free school meals has many benefits:
Your child(ren) will benefit from a eating a free healthy nutritious meal and families could be saving more than £400 per child per year,
Schools also benefit directly by receiving money from the government. The government pays schools £1,300 for every primary child and £935 for every secondary child who registers for free school meals plus additional funding through the schools' budget. This means there may be help available for you with the cost residential school trips, travel costs to school, or help with school uniform costs.
LUNCH MENU
(paper copies are available from the school office). Please refer to this when ordering on line as some options are only available on certain days
Please click here to view our Autumn 2022 menu
Online Payments System
We are delighted to welcome you to the Cippenham School On-Line payment system. This system allows you to make web based payments to Parentpay for school lunches. Payments will show as PARENTPAY E-COM R on your statements, and the money goes direct to Parentpay Limited (registered offices at Flat 11 Kingsley Lodge, 13 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 9UG)
To register: You should receive, or can request from the school office, a letter detailing your user name and password. These will be different for every child, so if you have two children you will receive two different letters. The letter gives instructions on how to create an account for online payments. You only need one account. (Please note that the account is created using a user name provided in the letter, but after that you will use your email address to log in) The web site address is www.parentpay.com
A guide for How to book a meal can be found here.
A guide on to add allergies to your child's account can be found here
To check the balance, and what orders have been registered, click on the [School Dinners Calendar}.
Further details about the full scheme are available from the Online Payment guide which can be down loaded here.
If you have any problems or queries please contact the school office on 01628 604665.
Before and After School Care
At Cippenham School we aim to support working parents in the best possible way. We offer care for children from 7.30am until 6pm in the evening from Monday to Friday with Kidz Enterprise Ltd. The care is run on the school site and led by Mr Derek Beasley.
Further information can be found here.
The club can be booked on line here.