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Admissions
In year applications
School entry applications are usually for Reception, Junior and Year 7. You can apply for up to three schools. If you want to apply for a school place outside normal school entry years you can apply for a transfer to another school.
Breakfast & Afterschool Club
The school’s Breakfast and After School Club is a service open to all parents of children at Windmill Hill. The Club is run by school staff. Breakfast Club operates from 7:30am until the start of the school day; After School Club is available from 3:10pm-5:45pm.
All staff have basic first aid training and enhanced DBS checks. There are also two paediatric first aiders in the team, one of which is on-site at all times. The Club offers a range of activities including arts & crafts; Lego; board games; sports activities; music & dance; reading / quiet space. During the sessions children will be provided with a snack and a drink. Additionally a sandwich option is available for children attending beyond 4:30pm.
Want to know the team info, view the who’s who page or email basc@windmillhill.sheffield.
Use the links below to access the Club’s Terms & Conditions and Payment Policy.
Heathy Minds
Windmill Hill Primary is part of the Healthy Minds Project. It is a school based project which aims to support the emotional health and wellbeing of children. It puts emotional resilience at the heart of children’s health and wellbeing and recognises its impact on their learning, attainment, behaviour and future employability.
We know that schools offer so much more than academic education. They also attend to children’s social, emotional, developmental and health needs. Healthy Minds provides staff with the latest neurodevelopmental and mental health research to help them develop a whole-school approach to supporting and developing these needs.
Schools are in a fantastic position not just to teach about emotional wellbeing but to help children experience it. By providing stable, nurturing and protective environments, schools can help children learn how to regulate their emotions and develop healthy relationships with other children and school staff. These abilities will have a huge impact on their emotional resilience and satisfaction with their lives.
Oftsed
Windmill Hill Primary School continues to be a good school. Pupils are happy and feel safe, which means they can focus on their learning. Pupils are taught how to keep themselves healthy in ways such as eating a balanced diet and exercising frequently. They also understand how to keep themselves safe online. Pupils say that bullying is rare but if it did happen, they know that teachers would help them. Pupils are polite, friendly and engaging. They are respectful and talk confidently to adults using appropriate humour. This is because of the strong bonds that exist between them. Pupils routinely follow the Golden Rules: ‘Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Kind, Be Your Best!’
Behaviour in school is good. Pupils engage well together at breaktimes and lunchtimes. Pupils listen well in class and have positive learning attitudes. Pupils speak passionately about the ‘Zones of Regulation’. They can confidently recognise their own emotions and know it is ok to feel certain ways in different situations. They are aware of strategies they can use to ensure they are focused and ready to learn.
Pupils are given responsibilities in school that they enjoy. Along with the ‘School Council’, the school has ‘Play Leaders’ and ‘Reception Buddies’. Pupils frequently participate in extra-curricular clubs and are regularly given the opportunity to support local and national charities.
Payment To Schools
If you would like to pay for school dinners, milk, trips, breakfast and after school club etc, we are now using the new Parent Pay service. If you have any problems or do not have your login details please contact the school office on 0114 2468550.
Remote Learning
This strategy has been developed in response to the Coronavirus pandemic which began in early 2020. The pandemic resulted in school being closed, with very little notice, to the majority of pupils at the end of the Spring term and throughout the Summer term.
School Calendar
School Opening Hours
EYFS & KS1 Pupils – 8.40am – 3.10pm
KS2 pupils – 8.45am – 3.15pm
Total amount of time in a typical week: 32.5 hours
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.
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.
School Uniform
We proudly wear our school uniform to show we are part of ‘Team Windmill’. Our compulsory uniform comprises of:
- Plain black or grey trousers, skirt, dresses or shorts (No jeans, combat trousers or leggings)
- Plain royal blue cardigan, jumper or sweatshirt
- Plain polo shirt in white, pale or royal blue
- Dark coloured plain shoes, trainers, boots or sandals that are suitable and safe for varied school activities and appropriate to the weather conditions
In summer, blue gingham dresses are acceptable. Items of school uniform displaying optional school’s logo can be purchased directly from Tesco and School Trends or Reused Uniform Information. Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly marked with the child’s name.
Trauma Informed Schools
Windmill Hill Primary are proud to be a part of the Trauma Informed Schools. What is a Trauma Informed School?
A Trauma Informed School is one that is able to support children who suffer with trauma or mental health problems and whose troubled behaviour acts as a barrier to learning. Studies that have shown that when children who have suffered several painful life experiences, are un helped, there is a very high chance of them going on to suffer severe mental and physical ill-health.Key conversational skills in addressing and making sense of what has happened are central to the work as is major shift in whole school culture.
There is a growing body of research on the impact childhood adversity has on long-term mental and physical health. To ensure every child develops positive mental health and resilience, our aim is to:
- Support children to make sense of their experience(s)
- Find ways to manage their emotions and feelings
- Create an environment of safety, connection and compassion at all times
- Ensure children maintain the capacity to learn, despite difficult events that may occur
Zones of regulation
From September 2020 our school is implementing the Zones of Regulation as part of our Social, Emotional and Mental Health approach.
This approach, which has been very successful in other schools, was going to be introduced across school this September (planned pre-COVID) and we feel particularly in light of COVID-19 this is timely and will help with the impact COVID19 may have had on the children.
The reason behind adopting this approach is to help children to identify and regulate emotions and their consequent actions and responses to their feelings.
The aim behind the Zones of Regulation is that children increase their problem-solving skills, initially with support, guidance and modelling by staff in order to help them develop the skills and self-awareness to do this on their own.