16 October 2024

October half-term holiday – Food vouchers for FSM eligible children: Dear All – As you may be aware the Director for Children's Services has agreed to fund Free School Meal vouchers for the upcoming October half-term holiday. This means that Hindhayes will be allocated some funds from the Government and for these families, I have organised for those eligible to receive your child's voucher electronically via email from Friday 25th October. The funding allocated is £10 per child, per week for the holiday period. For any families where your financial circumstances may have changed or you are unsure of your entitlement, you can contact the school office by emailing (Office@Hindhayes.co.uk). Alternatively, please complete this link below which is a very straightforward online form, which takes less than 5 minutes to complete and will go directly to colleagues at County Hall to check eligibility. No additional checks are made and this is purely to see whether we can allocate this funding to you: Free school meals (somerset.gov.uk) For eligible families, it means you receive the support you are entitled to as well as Hindhayes receiving the correct funding into the budget at this extremely challenging period for all schools. We encourage all families to complete the online form please, regardless of circumstances. If there are any queries or you need any help, please contact the school office through the above email Thank you –––––––––––––––– Mike Sales

09 September 2024

September 2025 parents! Please find the details for our Open House for prospective September 2025 pupils. There is no need to book, please just turn up on the day!

04 September 2024

Message from Mrs Nester: Dear parents and carers We hope you have enjoyed the summer holidays and thank you for having the children on the extra INSET days this week. Just to reassure you that we have worked incredibly hard to ensure that we are ready to open as planned on Monday morning. There will still be a week of work to complete but this will not impact the children and their learning experience or personal safety. Once the rooms are finished we look forward to welcoming families in to see the work that has been completed, we know you will be thrilled. We will provide some photo updates next week in the first school newsletter. During the last couple of days the staff will be very busy but if you have any questions please do feel free to email the school office and we will respond to your queries. Here's to a wonderful school year.

20 August 2024

Dear All – We hope that you're having a great summer. We wanted to let you know although the school is closed, lots of work is going on to improve Hindhayes ready for when we return in September. Due to the significant fundraising and support of Somerset Council we have been able to realise our ambitious project to fully refurbish 4 classrooms, the corridor to the classrooms as well as create additional toilets and storage areas. There is a new roof and heating also. None of this would be possible without the support by all involved and their hard work and vision. The project remains on schedule to be completed and although there is a lot to do, I hope you'll see from the pictures below the quality and level of work involved. The building team are working 7 days a week, putting in long days to complete the work so that we are ready to welcome you back in September. This week for example the doors and windows are being fitted, then flooring the week after. Also, we have improvements to the heating system around the rest of the school and have had several trees felled during the holidays. It is and continues to be a really busy summer of improvements at Hindhayes. Enjoy the rest of the holidays and we look forward to seeing you soon.

18 July 2024

Set up for Sports Day and the School Fayre is underway! There is lots of great prizes to be won so please bring cash! Thank you to TOR FC for the kind donation of a brand new 2024-25 Premier League football. Donations are always greatly received from various businesses, sports teams and most importantly, our families here at Hindhayes!

13 July 2024

So one more walk tomorrow and then I am finished. I will have walked more than the total of 64 miles that I needed to. Thanks to everyone who sponsored me and my best furry friends. Hopefully we have raised a little bit for my Hindhayes family x

11 July 2024

Finally some nice weather to walk in. A lovely walk tonight and another couple of miles closer to the target. Love walking and love my school

07 July 2024

Another week of walking. Local, to the next town, to the polling station, to the canal and finally to the Beacon. Another 20 miles to go before the weekend. Please sponsor us to help fund the school

02 July 2024

More walking. 34 miles now! Saturday morning back at the canal. Sunday 4 miles to the Beacon. Tonight 2 miles around the Mill. Please sponsor us.