Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome to the Autumn Term 2025! What a fantastic start to the new academic term we have had over these past couple of days. A special ‘Well Done” needs to be given to our new EYFS intake who have started their primary school journey so brilliantly! Throughout the school, there has … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, We hope you have had an enjoyable summer break. Here’s a quick reminder about our Summer Reading Challenge. If you have any photos of your children completing any of the different challenges, please email them to the office2@yaptonschool.org email address be Friday 5th September. We are looking forward to seeing everyone … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, Even though we will not be together as a whole school community through this month, we do have a prayer for August. It is attached for you to read and share with your your family. Take care Chris Hughes Deputy Headteacher Prayer for August

Dear Parents and Carers, Now that the summer holidays have begun, may I first thank everyone who brought in the cards and gifts for the staff at the end of term. Your kindness and generosity is very much appreciated. Rock Stars Shine Last week, we held our end of term Rock Steady Gig. It was … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you to everyone who has paid the initial £30 payment towards the cost of the Year 6 Residential Visit to CYE in October 2026. I am delighted and excited to confirm our booking. CYE offer a 40% bursary to families who may find paying the full balance hard. Application for … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, Please find attached a resource from West Sussex County Council to be shared with the Year 6 children. It provides useful information about keeping safe on the journeys to and from secondary school. Take care Chris Hughes Deputy Headteacher DFT_SafeAdventure_A4 Year 6 Resource

Dear Parents and Carers, On Friday 18th July, in preparation for the Autumn Term, a number of teachers (with their current classes) are going to relocate to their new classrooms. This means at the end of Friday’s school day, most children will need picking up from a different classroom. Here are the details of the … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, further to our previous communication about the classroom arrangements from Friday afternoon, I just wanted to clarify that the children in Cowdray Class will not be moving. Kind regards Kim Huggett

Dear Parents and Carers, We are looking forward to welcoming some of our families for Parents Evening tonight. The school gate will be locked at usual time at the end of the school day. If you could please come to the main office, where you will be greeted by a member of the Senior Leadership … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, With parents evening’s taking place this week, there will be no Yoga Club taking place after school tomorrow. This means that Yoga has now finished for the term, as the School Disco is taking place next Tuesday. Kind Regards School Office

Dear Parents and Carers, It always gives me a sense of pride when we see children of Yapton C. of E. Primary School being the best versions of themselves – living life in its fulness. Our Year 6 children have certainly been demonstrating this as they have given performance of their production ‘The School of … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, our Y3/Y4 classes still have their Forest School sessions to complete. With reference to the previous comms about the ‘warm weather’, the children will need to come in their PE kit even on their Forest School day. The Forest School activities will be adapted according to the weather. This will mean … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, Looking ahead to the last two weeks of this term, the weather looks set to become ‘very warm’ once again. We would encourage the children to wear their P.E kit to school on those days that are ‘very warm’. This will continue until the end of term. For the Year 6 … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, Dear Parents,As part of our DT work this term, the children will be creating stitched river art. In order to do this, we require pieces of fabric (blues, greens, purples and yellows). This could be old clothing, tea towels, linen etc. We will be unable to return these to you as … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, This week has been an exciting one with Transition Day taking place on Wednesday. Whilst our Year 6 children enjoyed getting to know their new secondary schools, everyone else enjoyed the day being in the next year group up and getting to know who was going to be in the classes … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, The weather forecast indicates the heatwave is going to end today, so children need to be wearing their normal school uniform from tomorrow. As it is Transition Day, no-one needs to wear their P.E. kits. Year 6 children need to wear their hoodies with their as part of their uniform when … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, Please be aware that unfortunately there wiill be no school crossing patrol today, 01/07/2025. Please do continue to take extra care when crossing the road outside of the school. Kind regards, School Office.

Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you to those of you who came to the Diocesan Year 6 Leavers’ Service at Chichester cathedral last week. It was great to see the cathedral so full! We hope you enjoyed it. The next few weeks are still going to be very busy for our Year 6s. Here are … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, Last weekend’s Summer Solstice heralded the week in which we has passed the half way point of the second half of the summer term. The longest day of the year was explored a little further in our Whole School Collective Worship on Monday. The children watched a short CBBC Newsround clipwhich … Read more

Dear Parents and Carers, I hope that you have enjoyed the sunshine this weekend. The weather forecast for the next two days looks to be extremely hot. To help the children to feel as cool as possible, they can come to school in their PE T-shirts and shorts. They will need to have sun cream … Read more