4th September 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

Welcome back and a warm welcome to all of our new starters. Your child’s Class Teacher will be in touch with your child’s new timetable, staff team and peer group, news for the term, topic plans etc. and how you can help support class with healthy snacks, labelled clothes, swimming kit and towels etc.

We will be sending the data collection information sheets out shortly but in the meantime can you let us know if your phone numbers have changed or emergency contacts changed. We now require two emergency contact details.

Also please find attached an early ‘shout out’ for our ‘Pie & Pea Supper’ which will be on Thursday 16th October 5:30-7:30pm.

As ever we have a very busy term planned ahead, 8 weeks until Half Term and lots to cram in. You are all welcome to visit school whenever you can, but we do have our Multi-Professional Coffee Morning booked in for Thursday 2nd October at 10:00am, so please keep that date free if you are able to join us to meet the whole team at Hadrian that supports your child, including Abi Rodger, our new full-time Occupational Therapist who has taken up her full-time role this week. Abi will be working with families in the community so hopefully your paths will cross very soon.

New Health Support Pilot

For the past three years leaders from Hadrian and Sir Charles Parsons have been meeting with colleagues from Health and the Local Authority to find better ways of supporting the clinical health care needs of our children and young people, as identified in their Education, Health Care Plans.

We have been tackling the stresses in meeting Health provision and have jointly established a set of new principles and protocols which will guide our schools and Health services to more flexibly meet need. This is not about a reduction of Nursing and Health Care to our schools, indeed we have already enhanced our provision with the brilliant support of the Pharmacy Team which is already paying dividends. The new approaches will bring health governance into education for the first time, this is ground breaking work and Hadrian and Sir Charles Parsons are leading this innovative pilot over the next twelve months in partnership with our Health colleagues.

Our Health colleagues will be training, supervising, and sharing their skills and knowledge with our staff to enable the efficient and effective delivery of medications, feeds, controlled drugs, epilepsy management, stoma care and a range of interventions. Some of your children and young people may have a revised ‘All About Me’ book exemplifying our multi-

professional approach to meeting need, others will be part of our Case Study approach to monitor the success of the pilot. Your consent will always be sought before any information is gathered and shared.

The Pilot starts from today (Wednesday 3rd September 2025) and will constantly be reviewed

by colleagues in Health and Education reporting back to our Newcastle City Council and the Integrated Care Board.

We will be feeding back updates on the Pilot each term to you and there will be opportunities for Parent/Carers to ask questions and learn more about the goals of the Pilot as we progress.

Can we ask for your support in making sure you consent to the Pilot and ensure you send in your child’s medications and inform us of any alterations to your child’s scripts over the summer break. In the meantime if any Parent/Carers would like to receive more details of this Pilot and how it impacts on your child, please contact school at your convenience.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher