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South Witham Academy Uniform

Uniform list

School colours are navy blue and sky blue. 

However, non-branded/logo’d polo shirts, trousers, skirts etc. can often be found more reasonably priced at other suppliers and most major supermarkets.

• Navy blue school sweatshirt or cardigan
• Sky blue polo shirt
• Grey  trousers, skirt, pinafore or shorts
• Blue gingham dress
• Black school shoes
• White, black or grey socks or tights

PE Kit

• Navy or plain black t-shirt
• Plain navy or black PE shorts
• Optional School PE Hoodie, or plain navy hoodie (with no logos).
• Plain navy or black jogging bottoms for outdoor PE in cold weather
• Outdoor PE trainers
• Socks (if tights are being worn, they will need to change)
• A drawstring PE bag for storage

 Swimming

• Swim shorts or swimsuit (no tankinis or bikinis)
• Towel
• Swim hat
• Goggles 
• Verruca sock or waterproof plaster (if your child has a verruca)
• Swim kit bag

General

• All hair that is longer than shoulder length needs to be tied up for PE
• If ears are pierced, only one pair of studs are to be worn to school
• Earrings need to be removed for swimming and PE. Children should be able to remove these themselves
• In the summer term we recommend all children arrive at school with sun cream pre applied and wearing a sun hat (or can apply their own sun cream)
• Children must not bring or apply nail varnish or make-up in school. False nails/ eyelashes etc are not permitted and should not be in school.
• No jewellery except a watch (no smart watches for safeguarding reasons) to be worn in school

Items must be clearly labelled with your child’s name

 If you would like more information regarding the Trust wide policy and expectations for behaviour, please refer to the Trust Uniform Policy which can be found here.

Dear Parent/Carer

HOLIDAY/ABSENCE REQUESTS DURING TERM TIME

Amendments to the 2006 Education (Pupil registration) (England) Regulations do not give any entitlement to parents/carers to take their child on holiday during term time. Any application for leave must be in “exceptional circumstances” only and the Head of School must be satisfied that the circumstances warrant the granting of leave.

In practice these changes, which were introduced on 1st September 2013, will mean:

• Heads of School will not be allowed to authorise absences for family holidays, during term time, in any circumstances;
• The 10 day per annum discretionary period for absence has been withdrawn;
• Heads of School may only authorise term time absence for an exceptional, once in a lifetime event and any application must be received in advance. Examples of this may be a parents’ wedding, a close family funeral or watching your Grandfather carry the Olympic torch. Anything that could be viewed as recreational or a holiday will not be authorised.

In the regulations the following explanation for the changes has been detailed:

‘For pupils to benefit from education and achieve their full potential they must attend school regularly. School attendance data from 2010/2011 showed that 90% of pupils with an absence rate of less than 4% achieved 5 or more A* - C grades at GCSE or equivalent. In primary schools, 4 out of 5 pupils with an absence rate of less than 4% achieved level 4 or above in both English and mathematics. These amendments are designed to improve existing processes to help schools and local authorities address poor attendance.’

The local authority will be monitoring children with poor attendance very closely. We are fortunate that, because of our 6 term year, this can give greater flexibility in booking holidays, however, if you choose to take your child out of school during term time it may incur a fixed penalty. These penalties are in line with amendments made to the 2007 Regulations in the Education (Penalty Notices) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.

If you would like to discuss this further, please do not hesitate to contact the school. I look forward to working with you towards reducing term time absence at South Witham Academy.

Welcome to South Witham Academy PTA (parent, teacher association)

We have a friendly, very committed PTA, and though we are small, we have had a super start to the PTA with the support of our parents! We help to raise money for our school by organising events throughout the year. We are always looking for volunteers and so if you have any time to spare and would like to get involved please contact us.

Chairperson/Treasurer- Kirsti Caucutt

Member - Shaun Mason

Member - Andrew Atter

About our PTA

Our PTA is run by Kirsti , Shaun and Andrew.

We are always looking for volunteers to join our PTA, to help raise money.

Money raised by the PTA contributes towards travel costs for trips, pantos etc, keeping the costs down for parents. It also pays for the leaver hoodies that the Year 6s have each year. 

Without volunteers in the PTA, we are unable to hold PTA events and raise money for these things for the children so if you are interested in joining our PTA, we would love to welcome you in.

May 2023 - Our new playground and play equipment! Our PTA have spent £1600 on playground markings and new play equipment for our children. We have 2 new see-saws, some play tunnels, some amazing new playground markings which the children absolutely love to play on and more play equipment on it's way!!

 So Far in 2025 we have spent over £1000 to help reduce costs for parents on school trips foy KS1 and year 6, also leaver hoodies and with the amount we raised in our Easter Raffle, we have bought a new hot water URN to make coffee mornings run a bit more smoothly!

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So far, our school PTA has raised a huge £2328 and have spent over £1300 on things to enrich the children's learning and time spent in school.

Dates of future meetings will be posted on this page and mentioned in our weekly newsletter.

The PTA are pleased to announce they have raised £841 for the children this term. Thank you all for supporting their fundraising efforts, particularly in these past few weeks and thank you to the PTA members for their hard work and commitment. 

Our new PTA Facebook page!

We have a new Facebook page. Please click on the link below and like our page. On our PTA page, you will find up to date information about everything we are doing.

We are recruiting!