Healthy Snacks

Encouraging healthy snack choices helps children stay focused, active and ready to learn throughout the school day. Fresh fruit, vegetables, cheese, yoghurt and wholegrain snacks provide important nutrients and energy, helping children grow, concentrate in class and enjoy playtime with their friends.

Remember: Healthy snacks and water are the best choices for keeping minds and bodies fuelled for a successful day at school! 🍎🧀🥒🍌💧

Beyblades and Pokémon Cards

We know that Beyblades and Pokémon cards are very popular with lots of our children, and we completely understand why! They can be great fun to collect, play with and share with friends.

Unfortunately, we have had a number of incidents recently involving personal Beyblades and Pokémon cards being lost, damaged or causing issues in school. This can understandably cause upset for children and can be difficult for staff to resolve, particularly when items have been swapped, shared or brought into busy playground spaces.

For this reason, we are asking that Beyblades and Pokémon cards are no longer brought into school. 

There are lots of other toys, games and activities available for children to enjoy during their time at school. We want play and lunchtimes to continue to be fun, active and sociable, without children having to worry about their own treasured belongings becoming lost or damaged.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Our Positive Behaviour Policy

We are very proud of the positive behaviour and attitudes our children demonstrate at Dunalley. Visitors regularly comment on how polite, friendly and welcoming our children are and on the calm, purposeful atmosphere around school. (turn your phone to landscape to see full poster).

You can read our full Positive Behaviour Policy here: HERE

Clubs

All clubs have now been allocated. Please check Edulink One.

The clubs will start Monday 28th September and run until Friday 27th November 2026.

No teacher-led clubs on 20th & 21st October.  All clubs cancelled 4th November.

Flu Vaccinations

Please click through for info and to give consent:

Family Phonics Information Session

Thank you to everyone who was able to pop into school for our phonics information session earlier today. It was great to see so many families and to have the opportunity to share more about how we teach phonics and support children as they learn to read.

For anyone who was unable to attend, we have uploaded the presentation below so that you can see the information that was shared.

Please don’t hesitate to speak to your child’s teachers if you have any questions or would like further information or advice about how you can support your child’s phonics and reading at home. We are always happy to help.

Our Brand-New Reading Books

We hope your child is enjoying sharing their brand-new Essential Letters and Sounds reading book with you at home.

We have invested a great deal of money in these high-quality books so that every child can enjoy a book that is carefully matched to their phonics learning. We want to keep this collection in excellent condition so that children can continue to benefit from them for many years to come.

Please help us by keeping books safe, clean and away from food and drinks. We ask that they are returned in the same condition in which they were sent home. If a book is lost or damaged beyond normal wear and tear, we will ask families to cover the cost of a replacement.

Please also make sure that your child’s reading book stays in their school bag and comes to school every day. This means it will always be available when an adult has an opportunity to listen to your child read.

Thank you for helping us to look after our brand-new books and, most importantly, for supporting your child to develop their confidence, fluency and enjoyment of reading.