Parents

Admissions

Admissions – Reception to Y6

Fox Hill Primary has adopted Sheffield’s policy for admissions and applications for places will be made in accordance with the ‘Coordinated Admission Arrangements’ which forms part of the Local Authority’s (LA) published admission arrangements. We have a PAN (published admissions number) of 45 children per year group.

If you would like to apply for a place at Fox Hill Primary please contact Sheffield Council School Admissions using the link below. Once you have been allocated a place, please contact our Office Team to find out more and organise a visit to our school.

Admissions – Nursery (3 and 4 year olds)

Our Nursery is a 39 place setting that offers 3 hour sessions in the morning and 2.5 days at either the beginning or end of the week. Pupils can access 15 hours under the FEL (Free Early Learning) funding. We also offer 30 hour provision for eligible families. Admissions are handled through our Main Office. For further information or to arrange a visit, please contact the school office.

CLICK HERE to see a timetable for organising and hearing admissions appeals.

Apply For A School Place

Attendance

We place great importance on good attendance and punctuality here at Fox Hill Primary as we know that a child’s attendance has a direct impact on their learning. Those children who are regularly absent from school and regularly late do not achieve their potential and do fall behind in class, therefore we celebrate good attendance in a wide variety of ways and offer class and individual prizes for good attendance at school.

Your child should attend school every day and on time.
You should contact the school on each and every day of an absence.
You should make every effort to get your child to school even if they are feeling unwell. The school will always contact you if the child’s health deteriorates.
Make sure the school have the correct contact details especially if there is an emergency.
Don’t be offended if the school contact you. It is for the safety and welfare of your child.
If you do have issues that prevent your child from attending, discuss these issues as soon as possible with the school. Do not leave it. Contact the school and ask for an appointment to talk about the problems.
If your child has any health issues please make sure the school are aware and if appropriate make arrangements to supply the school with for example, asthma pumps and Epipen’s etc.
You should not take your child out of school for a holiday during term time. If you feel you need to take leave during term time you must put your request to the Head teacher in writing. Each request is considered on an individual basis. If the leave you requested is refused and you go ahead with the holiday the school may request a fine is issued by way of a Penalty Notice.
There is no doubt that attendance and achievement go hand in hand. Your child’s attendance is their future. Should your child’s unauthorised absence remain high, after all possible intervention, legal proceedings will be considered.

The Education Act 1996 states:

“If any child of compulsory school age, who is a registered pupil at a school, fails to attend regularly, the parents of the child shall be guilty of an offence.”

Attendance Documents

Calendar, Terms & Holidays

Emotional Health & Wellbeing

Payments to School

All payments into school need to be via Parentpay. If you have not set your account up please contact the school office who can send your log in details to you.
You can click on the following link to access your account: https://app.parentpay.com

Medical Downloads

Useful Downloads

News

All newsletters can be found using the link below. You can also follow the twitter feeds here: https://x.com/FoxHillLearning/

Parent Newsletters

School Meals

All of our school meals are cooked freshly on site. Children have a choice of four meal options including two hot main meals, jacket potato with filling and a sandwich option. All meals are served with seasonal vegetables or salad from the self service salad bar. Fresh fruit is available every day and drinking water is available for all children too.
We hold the Soil association Bronze Food for Life Served Here Award.

https://www.soilassociation.org/our-standards/read-our-organic-standards/food-for-life-served-here-standards/

For the children bringing their own packed lunches, we ask for no fizzy drinks or glass bottles please. We also encourage children to have healthy options in their lunches.

Children in Reception (FS1), Year 1 and Year 2 are all be eligible for a free school meal every day. Steel City Schools Partnership has also extended this offer to those children who stay for full days in Nursery. To find out more about this please follow the links below.

If you are entitled to Free School Meals, please do still complete the registration form as this helps school to access funding to support our children through the Pupil Premium Grants.

School Meals Documents

Dinner times

Nursery 11.30 -12.30
Reception 11.40 – 12.25
KS1 12.00 – 12.45
KS2 12.15 – 1.00

School Uniform

At Fox Hill Primary we promote an atmosphere that encourages effort, enjoyment, and a celebration of the achievements of all our pupils. We promote this through our whole school vision:

The high standards we promote are also reflected in the pride we take in our school uniform and the feeling of belonging it creates. It is our policy that all children wear school uniform when attending school or when participating in a school organised event outside of normal school hours, except in Nursery where parents may choose if children wear the uniform. The uniform is part of our school ethos and in coming to Fox Hill Primary, parents and carers agree to support our policy.

School Uniform Documents

Support and Signposting

If you need to speak to our Safeguarding Officer in an emergency over the summer please send an email to parentsupport@foxhill.sheffield.sch.uk
A member of our safeguarding team will be monitoring this email and will get in touch.

If you are worried that a child has been harmed or is at risk of harm then phone the Sheffield Safeguarding Hub on 0114 273 4855 (24 hours) to speak to a social worker. If a child is in immediate danger then call 999 for a police response.

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