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Jesus said, ‘I am the Good Shepherd… I know my sheep and my sheep know me.’ John 10.14

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Changing school hours

From the start of the next academic year, so beginning in September 2024, we need to make a slight change to the hours when the children will be in school. Recent guidance from the Department for Education states that children should be provided with 32.5 hours of education in school each week. Currently, with our …

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Cost of living resources

This winter Hertfordshire County Council wants to make sure that advice and support is available to help every resident deal with the rising cost of living and to stay safe and well as temperatures drop. HCC have asked us to help them reach as many people as possible with information about resources you can access. …

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Free School Meals: Might you be eligible?

According to the county council over 6,000 households in Hertfordshire could be eligible for free school meals but so far haven’t applied, including over 1400 households in the areas from which most of our families come. Might you be one of those families? As well as missing out on a free school meal, households could …

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Online safety at Christmas & After

Keeping children safe is always at the forefront of our thinking, and not just when they’re here with us at school. Staying safe online is getting more and more important and we all need to know how to protect children and young people (and ourselves!) from all the new and ever-changing risks which the online …

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We’re supporting Friends of Baker Arms

If you live in Bayford itself, you’ll know all about Friends of Baker Arms. For those who don’t, the Baker Arms is our local pub… or at least it was until it closed in June 2023. As a school we’ve always had a really good relationship with the pub: landlords used to let us use …

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Bayford Bugle November 2023

The latest issue of our newsletter, the Bayford Bugle, has been sent out this week. You can also download a copy using the button below. November’s Bugle has lots of details about Christmas events and activities in December: Pantomime. Christmas shows, Christmas school dinner and Christmas Jumper Day (raising money for the charity Save the …

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