Welcome to new parents - A Guide to Life at OPJS!

Guide-to-life-at-OPJS-2025-2026.pdf

OPJ-open-events-2025-26.pdf

The OPJS Home and School Agreement contains a number of key points that we believe will help your child to reach their potential and keep them safe.  Firstly, to reinforce our positive reading culture, we would like children to continue to read at least three times a week as we believe reading is vital in a child’s development.  Secondly, in line with national and school safeguarding policies regarding inappropriate social networking sites, we expect that no child has access to or uses Instagram, Facebook and such like.  Finally, we would also welcome your support in monitoring the amount of screen time your child is exposed and ensuring that the games they are playing or programmes/films they are watching are age appropriate.

A copy of the OPJS Home and School Agreement is below and, as ever, please do not hesitate to contact school if you have any questions or queries.

Home-and-School-Agreement-2022-2023.pdf

We expect all our children to wear our school uniform at all times as it creates a sense of identity and community while protecting them from social pressures to dress in a particular way. We are proud of our logo and wearing school uniform as it helps to reinforce a sense of pride in, and belonging to, Oldfield Park Junior School.

The School Uniform expectations are as follows and are illustrated in the photograph below:

• Navy polo shirt with school logo.
• Navy sweatshirt, cardigan or hoody with school logo.
• Grey or charcoal trousers or skirts or tailored grey shorts.
• Grey or black socks.
• Black leather shoes or plain black trainers.
• Girls may wear a blue check dress.

Children are expected to come to school in their PE kit on days they have PE. The PE uniform consists of navy or black shorts and a T-Shirt, the colour of which depends on the House they are in. New children to Oldfield Park Junior School are allocated to one of four houses: Robin (red), Mallard (green), Goldfinch (yellow) and Kingfisher (blue).

Children are expected to wear a coat during the winter months as outdoor play is valued all year round.

Jewellery should not be worn in school for safety reasons. Children with pierced ears should wear studs. Long hair should be tied back at all times.  Children’s haircuts should be appropriate with no emblems or patterns shaved at the side or into the back of children’s heads. All items of clothing must be named. The same applies to anything else that is brought into school for whatever reason. There is a lost property box located in the Playground.

Please follow the link with regards to our school uniform policy: 
OPJS-Uniform-Policy.docx

Finally, we source our polo tops, jumpers, cardigans, hoodies and house t-shirts from a local supplier called Scholars. Please follow the link  www.scholars-uk.com/bath.php

First Aid

Every care is taken to prevent accidents but occasionally they do happen. All accidents are recorded in the accident book and treated by our trained staff.  Parents are contacted if additional medical care is considered necessary or if the child is particularly distressed.   In the event of an emergency an ambulance will be called and parents notified immediately.  Finally, staff at OPJS are classed as ‘Loco Parentis’ as the safety and care of your child is our main priority.

Medication

Children are not allowed to bring medicines of any kind into school including cough sweets etc. We would prefer any prescription medicines to be administered by parents before and after school rather than during the school day. Failing this, please bring the medicine (prescription only, non-prescription medicines will not be administered) into school yourself with the child’s name and dosage clearly written on the container and complete a medicine form available from the school office. No medicines will be administered by staff unless this form is completed. In such cases, non-teaching staff may administer the medicine but it should be clearly understood that the staff are not medically qualified and do not accept any responsibility. Parents are asked to ensure that any child receiving medication is fit enough to be in school. All medicines will be kept in a safe place and only accessed by an adult.  Inhalers – Inhalers are to be kept in the medical room and accessed as needed. Please complete a medical form if this applies to your child. It is the parent’s responsibility to ensure that the inhaler is in date and available at all times.

The roads outside school are particularly dangerous due to passing traffic and to parked cars at the beginning and end of the school day. If arriving by car, PLEASE do not drop-off or wait to pick-up on double yellow lines or in a place that will put either your child or another child in danger.  This includes blocking the view of the crossing. Please also consider our neighbours who can be inconvenienced at these peak times of the day by cars blocking rights of way and obstructing the traffic. The private road between Ascension Church and school should not be used as a pick-up or drop-off location for safety reasons.

The school places a high priority on safety and endeavours to secure the site at all times. The playground gates opposite the Church are opened at 8.30am when a member of staff is on duty in the playground. PLEASE ensure that your child does not arrive before 8.30am as the gates will be closed and the road outside school can be dangerous at that time of the morning. The children go into the school building at 8.45am when class teachers are in their classrooms ready to start the day. The gates are closed at 8.55am. During the day, the school is accessed through the locked main door which has a coded entry and is covered by a CCTV camera. Most areas of the playground are also monitored by CCTV cameras.  The gates are opened at 3.15pm for pick-up and locked again at 3.45pm or as soon as most of the children have left. Please wait for your child in the playground and not on the pavement outside the school.  If you wish your child to leave the school site on their own at the end of the day, please complete a permission slip, all visitors to the school, during the school day, must report to Reception, sign in the visitor’s book and wear a visitor’s tag. For class events we will take a register of those attending.