School Events and Dates for your Diary

Name: School closes for Half Term holiday
Start: 2026-02-12T15:10:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-12T15:10:00+00:00

Academic Calendar 2024-25

Academic Calendar 2025-26

Key Dates 2024-25

October 2025
Fri 3 Oct, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Prospective Parents’ Meeting*
Wed 8 Oct, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Y1 & Y2: Harvest Festival, All Saints’ Church*
Fri 10 Oct, 2:45 pm - 3:10 pm

Y1 & Y2: Autumn Storytime*
Wed 15 Oct, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

NT PMR – With Marie/ Joanna Bamford (in WIS)
Mon 20 Oct

No clubs Tue/Thu this week
Tue 21 Oct, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Parents’ Evening*
Thu 23 Oct, 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Parents’ Evening*
Fri 24 Oct, 3:10 pm

School closes for Half Term holiday
Mon 27 Oct - Fri 31 Oct

Half Term holiday
November 2025
Mon 3 Nov, 8:40 am

Children return to school
Tue 4 Nov

Forest School lessons begin: Turtles
Wed 5 Nov, 8:40 am - 9:20 am

Y1 & Y2: Family Learning Time*

Handwriting focus
Wed 5 Nov, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Prospective Parents’ Meeting*
Thu 6 Nov

Forest School lessons begin: Parrots
Wed 12 Nov, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

NT Budget Meeting – TB (in WJS)
Wed 12 Nov, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

WJS: Parents’ Meeting for Y2 to Y3*
Fri 14 Nov

Children in Need Day 2025
Fri 14 Nov, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

WJS: Parents’ Meeting for Y2 to Y3*
Thu 20 Nov

No staff clubs this week
Thu 20 Nov

Individual School Photographs (siblings from 8am)

Kittle Photographic
Mon 24 Nov, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Y1 & Y2: Advent Service, All Saints’ Church*
Thu 27 Nov, 8:00 am - 9:00 am

Bag2School Collection
Thu 27 Nov, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Prospective Parents’ Meeting*
Fri 28 Nov

PTA Elfridges donation collection – Dress Down Day
Fri 28 Nov, 2:45 pm - 3:10 pm

Christmas Storytime*
December 2025
Thu 4 Dec, 9:15 am - 10:15 am

Reception: Christmas Event*
Sat 6 Dec - Sun 7 Dec

Writtle Christmas Tree Festival, All Saints’ Church
Thu 11 Dec, 9:15 am - 10:15 am

Y1 & Y2: Christmas Performance 1*
Fri 12 Dec

PTA Event – Elfridges
Fri 12 Dec, 9:15 am - 10:15 am

Y1 & Y2: Christmas Performance 2*
Mon 15 Dec

No clubs this week
Mon 15 Dec, 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Barking Dog Theatre Presents;- “Snow White & The Messy Dwarves”
Tue 16 Dec, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Y2: Christmas Party
Wed 17 Dec, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Reception: Christmas Party
Thu 18 Dec, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Y1: Christmas Party
Thu 18 Dec, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Y2: Link Club Christmas Party
Fri 19 Dec, 3:10 pm

School closes for Christmas holidays
22nd December 2025 - 2nd January 2026

Christmas holidays
January 2026
5th January 2026, 8:40 am

Children return to school
14th January 2026, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Sharks Parents’ Lunch*
15th January 2026

Census Day
15th January 2026

Primary School Applications Deadline

Children starting Reception or Y3 in September 2026
19th January 2026

Y2 Victorian Classroom Trip

Braintree District Museum Manor Street, Braintree Central, Braintree, United Kingdom
21st January 2026, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Dolphins Parents’ Lunch*
28th January 2026, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Parrots Parents’ Lunch*
February 2026
4th February 2026, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Turtles Parents’ Lunch*
9th February 2026

No clubs Tue/Thu this week
10th February 2026, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Parents’ Evening*
12th February 2026

PTA Something You Love Competition
12th February 2026, 3:10 pm

School closes for Half Term holiday

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