Parents

Admissions

Admissions – Reception to Y6
Mansel Primary has adopted Sheffield’s policy for admissions and applications for places will be made in accordance with the ‘Coordinated Admission Arrangements’ which forms part of the Local Authority’s (LA) published admission arrangements. We have a PAN (published admissions number) of 60 children per year group.

If you would like to apply for a place at Mansel Primary please contact Sheffield Council School Admissions using the link below. Once you have been allocated a place, please contact our Office Team to find out more and organise a visit to our school.

Admissions – 2 year old nursery
Mansel Primary offers free childcare for two year olds through our two year old provision. The government is currently funding childcare for 2 years olds for certain groups. For further details, or to check if you are eligible, visit the education section on www.sheffield.gov.uk. To place your child on our waiting list please ask at the main school office for a pupil admission form.

Admissions – Nursery (3 and 4 year olds)
Our Nursery is a 39 place setting that offers 3 hour sessions both morning and afternoons and 2.5 days at either the beginning or end of the week. Pupils can access 15 hours under the FEL (Free Early Learning) Funding. We also offer 30 hour provision for eligible families. Admissions are handled through our Main Office. For further information or to arrange a visit, please contact the school office.

For hearing admissions go to the Organising and hearing admissions appeals.

Admission policies can be found in the Policies and reports area.

Apply For A School Place

After School Activities

We have a range of after school activities that are on offer to children at Mansel. All of the activities we offer support children to become more resilient, inclusive and aspirational in line with our school values.

After school activities change on a termly basis and children are given the opportunity to sign up to the clubs that they would like to be part of.

For more details on how to sign up to an after school club, contact your class teacher or the school office

After School Activities Documents

Attendance

We place great importance on good attendance and punctuality here at Mansel Primary as we know that a child’s attendance has a direct impact on their learning. Those children who are regularly absent from school and regularly late do not achieve their potential and do fall behind in class, therefore we celebrate good attendance in a wide variety of ways and offer class and individual prizes for good attendance at school.

Your child should attend school every day and on time.
You should contact the school on each and every day of an absence.
You should make every effort to get your child to school even if they are feeling unwell. The school will always contact you if the child’s health deteriorates.
Make sure the school have the correct contact details especially if there is an emergency.
Don’t be offended if the school contact you. It is for the safety and welfare of your child.
If you do have issues that prevent your child from attending, discuss these issues as soon as possible with the school. Do not leave it. Contact the school and ask for an appointment to talk about the problems.
If your child has any health issues please make sure the school are aware and if appropriate make arrangements to supply the school with for example, asthma pumps and Epipen’s etc.
You should not take your child out of school for a holiday during term time. If you feel you need to take leave during term time you must put your request to the Head teacher in writing. Each request is considered on an individual basis. If the leave you requested is refused and you go ahead with the holiday the school may request a fine is issued by way of a Penalty Notice.
There is no doubt that attendance and achievement go hand in hand. Your child’s attendance is their future.Should your child’s unauthorised absence remain high, after all possible intervention, legal proceedings will be considered.

The Education Act 1996 states:

“If any child of compulsory school age, who is a registered pupil at a school, fails to attend regularly, the parents of the child shall be guilty of an offence.”

Attendance Documents

Calendar, Terms & Holidays

School Calendar Documents

Home Learning

We expect all children within school to continue their learning at home where necessary. All children are given a reading book and should be practicing their reading skills each night. Rewards and recognition are given to those children who take part in daily reading at home.

On a termly basis children are sent home with a home learning grid. This is a grid with multiple options on for the children to choose a challenge from. Children should aim to complete a challenge each week. The challenges are designed to support children in revisiting and embedding the learning that has been introduced within their class.

Home learning grids can be accessed from Class Dojo, from your child’s class teacher or from the school office.

We follow the National Curriculum and teach a broad and balanced range of subjects including PE, Music, History, Geography, Design Technology, Art, PSHE, Science, Computing and RE. We have a termly driving subject and aim to provide cross curricular learning linked to a high quality text where possible. We follow the Read, Write Inc. programme to plan and deliver high quality daily phonics lessons.

Home Learning Documents

Home School Agreement

Home School Agreement Documents

Online Safety

At Mansel we promote the use of technology and understand the role it plays in education, business and social interaction. There are many advantages to using technology, however we also recognise that the digital world presents numerous online risks. It is our responsibility to educate children and families about the risks, how to behave responsibly online and where to go for support and guidance.

How we teach online safety
We use the Sheffield Online Safety Scheme which forms part of our PSHE curriculum in school. These sessions are delivered throughout the year and cover a wide range of online safety topics.

Online Safety Documents

Our School Day

FS0 (Robins – 2 year old nursery)
8:35am – Doors open for 2 year old provision
11:35am – End of provision

FS1 (Blackbirds – 3 year old nursery)
8:35am – Doors open for morning session
11:35am – End of morning session
12:15pm – Doors open for afternoon session
3:15pm – End of afternoon session
8:35am – 3:15pm for full day attending children

FS2 – Y6
8:00am – Breakfast club opens. Children enter breakfast club through the hall doors
8:35am – Doors open to all children and learning begins
8:45am – Doors close and registration is reported
3:15pm – End of school day

Typical week total time: FS0 = 15 hours FS1 = 15 hours/30 hours full time FS2 – Y6 = 32 hours and 30 minutes

Our School Day Documents

Parent Letters

You will find our generic forms and important whole school information letters in this section. All other letters that are sent out are sent via our communication app, Class Dojo. Please ensure you are signed up to this service to receive the most up to date information from us. If letters require a response from parents i.e. a consent slip, we will send a paper copy home.

If you would like a paper or an electronic copy of any of our letters please make this request to the main office by one of the following methods:

Class Dojo: The Office
Email: enquiries@mansel.sheffield.sch.uk
Phone: 0114 232 1278

Parent Letters

Payments to School

Mansel Primary is a cashless school.
We use Parent Pay for all transactions.
Once enrolled, you will be given login details.
For any further ongoing support with payment enquiries please contact a member of the Office Team or Parent Pay.

Remote Education

At Mansel Primary we are committed to providing a high quality education to all our children within school.

However there may be occasions where we need to significantly adapt the way we deliver our curriculum as well as making adaptations to the practicalities of school in order to keep children, families and staff safe.

The documentation below details the adaptations we may take and our intentions in moving forward as a school ensuring that our children are provided with the best possible opportunities to support them in making exceptional progress.

Remote Learning Strategy

School Meals

All of our school meals are cooked freshly on site. Children have a choice of four meal options including two hot main meals, jacket potato with filling and a sandwich option. All meals are served with seasonal vegetables or salad from the self service salad bar. Fresh fruit is available every day and drinking water is available for all children too.

We hold the Soil association Bronze Food for Life Served Here Award. https://www.soilassociation.org/

Apply for Free School Meals

School Meals Documents