General Letters and Communication

Parent Pay Communications:

14.5.25

Some parents are already aware that we are changing our payment system, but we are also changing our school catering provider, and this will affect everyone from 1st June 2025.

We will no longer be using Education Catering, and will be using a company called Dolce instead.

Dolce are a family run business, who are already being used by several local schools, and who aim to provide a better value meal for our children using freshly cooked raw ingredients.

You will shortly receive an email from a company called SchoolGrid.<b> SchoolGrid will replace ParentPay as the system that you use to pay for your child's school meals</b>. SchoolGrid is much more than a payment system though, and by using your SchoolGrid account you will be able to:-

Pre-order school meals for your children at home, up to 8.55am on the day (and cancel any meals ordered if done before 8.55am)

View the menus

Set low balance alerts

Update information about allergies for your child

Compliment the cook if your child has enjoyed their meal

Children will still be using the SchoolGrid system to order their meal in class, so you don't have to pre-order at home if you don't want to.

The two main changes for parents are that with SchoolGrid your child can only order a meal if there is credit on their account. It is therefore important that you are topping up your child's account regularly. SchoolGrid will know which children are entitled to Free School Meals, and Universal Infant Free School Meals, so you don't need to put any money onto your child's account if they receive either of these.

The other change is that the cost of a school meal is being reduced from £3.20 to £3.00 a child with Dolce.

Any parents who have existing credit on ParentPay for school meals will have these amounts refunded after 23rd May, or you can request any credit to be transferred to another payment item, like Breakfast Club instead. Please just email admin.office@wicor.hants.sch.uk if you want the amount transferred.

For those parents who currently have outstanding arrears on accounts, these must be paid by Friday 23rd May 2025.

The existing kitchen staff are all transferring over to Dolce, so they will be familiar faces to the children. 

If you have any questions about the changes with school meals, please email admin.office@wicor.hants.sch.uk.

A leaflet is also attached providing information about Dolce and SchoolGrid.

Miss Amanda Fuller

Business Manager

9.5.25 

The following email was sent to the Wicor Young Voices children today -

Dear Parents

We hope that the children are enjoying being part of Wicor Young Voices, and we would like to give them the opportunity to perform at our Eco Fayre taking place on Saturday 5th July 2025.

They would be performing at 10.30am and 11.10am, so the children would need to be available at both of these times.

In order to find out if there would be enough children available to take part please complete the Microsoft Form by contacting the school office.

Please could you complete the form by Tuesday 13th May 2025.

Best wishes
Mrs Leadbeater

9.5.25

We have been advised by our Caterers. HC3S, that there will be a menu change on Monday 12th May 2025 to the RED option. Instead of chicken curry, the option will be chicken katsu fillet.

If your child has an allergy menu and they can have the chicken katsu then they can order this but if they cannot, then please ask them to order from their own menu.

30.4.25 

We already have a mountain of lost property in the office.

All the lost property will go outside on Friday morning, 2nd May 2025, and again on Friday afternoon at the same time as the lolly sale.

Please check for any items that belong to your child, as anything left at the end of Friday will either go into our recycling bin, or if it is school uniform, be added to our pre-loved uniform for sale.

29.4.25

The following message has been sent to the Y4, Y5 and Y6 Parents attending choir starting this Thursday 1st May 2025.

Dear Parents and Carers

I am pleased to tell you that you child has a place in the new choir, Wicor Young Voices (WYV), starting next week on Thursday 1st May after school. Please ask your child to make their way to the reception classes where we will meet each week. At the end of the session, 4.20, the children will be either taken to afterschool club, brought out to you via reception or allowed to go home from reception, depending on the arrangements that you have made and notified to us. 

WYV will run every Thursday after school. However, there are a couple of dates that I am unable to run choir, due to transition activities for our new reception children due to start in September. These are Thursday 5th June and Thursday 19th June. I will try to send reminders nearer the time. 

Thank you for your support. I am really looking forward to meeting all of the children and enjoying singing with them. Mrs Ryan and Mrs Worthy (after half term) will also be helping with choir. 

Best wishes

Mrs Leadbeater

3.4.25

Dear families,

At last, the temperatures are creeping up as we approach the summer term.  We recognise that the warmer weather brings the opportunity to wear different kinds of uniform and we would like to draw your attention to our uniform policy which is attached.  There has been an increase in girls wearing very short shorts on both PE and non-PE days, which are not part of the uniform policy and we ask that these are avoided.  PE kit should be dark trousers or shorts and white non-branded T-shirts rather than the multi-colours that we are seeing.

We run a very good second-hand school uniform shop which is available outside the main office Friday's after school, and we do not require branded or clothes with our school logo.  

We thank you for your cooperation in helping our children adhere to our school uniform.

Kind regards,

Mark Wildman.