Welcome to the Parents & Carers Page
We hope you will find the information on this page useful, if there is anything else you would like to see on here, please let us know.
Notices
Parent Surveys
Reporting a Pupil Absent
To report a pupil absent, please phone the school on 01263 578 144 and follow the instructions. Alternatively, you can email the office at office@sidestrandhall.norfolk.sch.uk. Please be sure to leave the following information:
- Pupils name
- Class
- Reason for absence
- When you expect pupil to return
Poorly Children
If your child has sickness or diarrhoea, please remember they need to stay at home for 48 hours after the last episode
School Meals Information
School Closures
School closures will be posted on the Norfolk School Closures Site
Teachers to Parents
The school uses a text service to send out information to parents. If you are not receiving these, please contact the school office to update your contact details.
Transport
All pupil transport is arranged through Norfolk County Council.
If you have any transport related enquiries, please phone Passenger Transport at Norfolk County Council, 0344 800 8020.
Useful Information and Links
Childline
We’re here for you, whatever’s on your mind. We’ll support you. Guide you. Help you make decisions that are right for you.
Family Voice is a collective of parents and carers of children with special and additional needs working voluntarily and ‘Aiming High’.
Childhood Illnesses
A useful page for Spotting Serious Illness in Children, from the Children & Young Peoples’ Health Services Norfolk.
https://www.justonenorfolk.nhs.uk/childhood-illnesses/spotting-serious-illness-in-children
Your Guide to Grants for the Disabled
Happy Days Children’s Charity UK – What a Difference a Day Makes…
Happy Days Children’s Charity UK helps terminally ill, sick, disabled and abused children and young carers with respite breaks, holidays and day trips
The freephone, 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline
https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/
The Starfish Learning Disabilities Child and Adolescent Service, part of Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust (NHS), is provided to children across Norfolk aged between 5-18 years who have a significant learning disability.
The team supports young people with complex developmental needs, as well as their families. Please click the logo for more information.
Norfolk Parent Partnership offers support to Parents and Carers of children with special educational needs, please click the logo for more information.
Samaritans – Suicide support
Whatever you’re going through, call us free any time, from any phone, on 116 123 or visit website at: